Munchies

Posted by Dar | May 21, 2010 .

I watched Biggest Loser this week and it was so inspiring and very touching. I actually teared up several times. The final four ran a marathon...Everyone finished and Daris even completed it in 4 hours and a couple of minutes! But my heart really went out to Daris when he got on the scale and after thirty days of being at home training for and running a marathon in Biggest Loser record time, he gained 2 pounds! He even broke Tara's record by almost an hour and yet he gained two pounds! In the confessional he broke down and really cried and said he would exercise, run, work out all day and come home and eat it all away! He couldn't stop himself...

I wanted to sit right there and cry with him. I felt his pain, you see I get it! I know exactly what he is going through. You could hear and see the shame in his voice and through his tears. Wow, I have so been there. I wanted to tell him, focus on what you have accomplished...You have lost 150 pounds and just ran a marathon in 4 hours! But I knew he couldn't do that...It is so hard to focus on the good, when you feel like you just keep taking 2 steps forward and 3 steps back. He has lost 150 pounds and yet the same struggles remain.

For me, I feel like I got this daytime thing at work licked (until I have to go to a luncheon or something!). I eat oatmeal for breakfast, have a healthy 2 point mid morning snack, a 4-6 point Weight Watcher SmartOne for lunch. I feel great about the day and sometimes I even get in some walking at work. But then I come home and it is like a feeding frenzy! I eat a couple chips, then a handful of nuts, then maybe a banana (with peanut butter of course!) and how bad can a "small bowl" of Cheerios be? It just continues spiraling out of control with the bites and tastes...Then I feel absolutely horrible about what I just did! Sometimes this all happens before I eat dinner! Why is it so easy to blow it in the last hours of the day. I am not hungry, I am just munching! And it is not that I am eating unconsciously! I am fully aware that I am sticking those chips or nuts in my mouth...I know I am eating and know that I shouldn't be! I think I really do need to just go to bed when I get home! It's not that this happens all the time, but the show really made me more in tune to it after watching Daris struggle through it himself and watching his plea to America to keep him in the finals.

It's kind of funny that the word "munchies" sounds so harmless...like I am not really eating, not really swallowing, I'm just munching..."Snacking" even sounds harmless! But it is not! It can ruin your whole day in a matter of minutes! Minutes I tell you! Minutes! I mean, there is even a point when too much of a healthy choice, becomes not so healthy!

I don't mean for this post to sound like I am having a rough week. I actually haven't done too bad this week. It is just that watching this episode of Biggest Loser really brought a couple of things to light and reminded me of issues that I still struggle with. It has been hard to get it back in gear, but my airplane trip with no seat belt extender is still fresh in my mind for a great reminder of how far I have come. This is the longest I have ever stuck with a program and not given up! I absolutely refuse!

So next time I have a hunch to munch and crunch....I am going to stand up and face it and give it a punch!

Anyone else have problems with evening/night munchies? Do you do good all day and blow it when you get home?

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3 Comments so far

Waisting Time May 21, 2010 10:28 pm

OMG yes. This has been a theme in my blog lately because it is a theme in my life. The evenings are filled with eating for me. It is healthy food, in theory. Just lots and lots when I am not hungry. I need to stop. I will stop! Aaaarrrgh.
Girl in Fatsuit May 22, 2010 5:16 pm

That is soo true! i find myself always lurking in the kitchen if i get bored. Open the cuboard or fridge to look for something to snack on (luckily there is hardly ever anything snack worthy in there so i can’t). But i think you have highlighted an issue that haunts everyone!
Cindy May 23, 2010 10:54 pm

You are so right. I can be good all day at work but come home in the evenings and I’m looking every place for something. Funny thing is that I am home most of the weekend and I am good (might have something to do with Saturday morning meetings). I leave the meetings saying I’m going to beat it this week and it usually (not always) beats me but I will not quit. I always do go when i first start WW but let me get within 5 to 10 pounds of goal and I get back to fighting the evening munchies.