Golden Phoenix
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Hey all. I'm just heading into week 3 of my calorie counting and i need some advice.
I'm allowing about 1750 calories at the minute but i don't know how to spread those out over the day. I'm finding myself eating most of them (up to 1000 cal) in the afternoon/evening, my dinners are usually my most heavily laden and also biggest meal.
Because i'm a natural grazer i try to avoid going for the "eat X number of Y calorie snacks" route and am just nibbling on something super low cal as needed. So rather than allowing 3 100 cal snack s i might graze on 6 50 cal or less snacks over the course of the day, it keeps me more interested and feeling less restricted. Plus this way my urge to continually graze is allowed but i'm aware of what i'm eating.
My problem is my meals. I have a mostly sedentary lifestyle and leaving my husband home alone is not an option while he's ill, he's often housebound at the minute too. I don't know if i should be trying to make my meals abut equal, eating bigger dinners like i'm used to, forcing myself to eat breakfast (which makes me feel sick most days) or what.
Any tips?
FYI I'm accompanying every meal with 2 large glasses of water. Week 1 saw an 8lb loss, week 2 has not shown any but it's totm so i'm not worried.
Apologies for the rambling, he had a bad night and i'm kinda tired.
I'm allowing about 1750 calories at the minute but i don't know how to spread those out over the day. I'm finding myself eating most of them (up to 1000 cal) in the afternoon/evening, my dinners are usually my most heavily laden and also biggest meal.
Because i'm a natural grazer i try to avoid going for the "eat X number of Y calorie snacks" route and am just nibbling on something super low cal as needed. So rather than allowing 3 100 cal snack s i might graze on 6 50 cal or less snacks over the course of the day, it keeps me more interested and feeling less restricted. Plus this way my urge to continually graze is allowed but i'm aware of what i'm eating.
My problem is my meals. I have a mostly sedentary lifestyle and leaving my husband home alone is not an option while he's ill, he's often housebound at the minute too. I don't know if i should be trying to make my meals abut equal, eating bigger dinners like i'm used to, forcing myself to eat breakfast (which makes me feel sick most days) or what.
Any tips?
FYI I'm accompanying every meal with 2 large glasses of water. Week 1 saw an 8lb loss, week 2 has not shown any but it's totm so i'm not worried.
Apologies for the rambling, he had a bad night and i'm kinda tired.