Musings on hunger
I've been really hungry lately.
I know why. It's PMS, it always happens to me. Every month, almost without fail. I also start fiending for things: chocolate, pickles, ice cream (usually stuff that's bad for me). This month has been particularly bad. I've been jonesing for chinese food from the place down the street from us; pizza, preferably with lots of cheese and sauce and stuff that's bad for me on it; chocolate, chocolate and more chocolate, especially in cookie and truffle forms; cheese; ice cream; Doritos, which I haven't wanted for years at this point--I could go on but I'll stop now.
See, the problem is that for the most part I avoid all the above food. The stuff that I don't avoid altogether (like the Doritos), I only indulge in once in a while. Or I'll make a healthier alternative--for example, I was fiending for mac and cheese, so I made the smoked gouda mac that I like so much this week, which is less fat and has spinach and tomatoes in it, among other things, so I get something good out of it. And I recently had ice cream and chinese food. The problem is that none of this stuff seems to be helping. I can't seem to trick my body into not wanting this stuff, and indulging in only a little isn't getting rid of the craving.
The thing that's making it worse is that I constantly feel like I'm hungry. I eat lunch and an hour later my tummy is growling. I've tried tricks here as well--eating more often, eating things that will make me feel full, getting more protein, sticking to my fairly balanced diet--but again, nothing is helping. I still feel hungry.
So now it's all down to willpower. I'm trying not to constantly eat, and I'm trying to keep my junk consumption down and my healthy foods consumption up. I'm trying to make sure that I'm still exercising so that my weight doesn't increase too much. I haven't completely succeeded, but I'm not indulging in stuff nearly as often as my cravings want, and I'm certainly exercising fairly regularly still.
Anyway it will all be over in 3 days, actually probably less the way my cycle has been going. Then I won't feel like eating at all.
I'm not looking for any advice here, just needed to vent. I hate PMS.
I know why. It's PMS, it always happens to me. Every month, almost without fail. I also start fiending for things: chocolate, pickles, ice cream (usually stuff that's bad for me). This month has been particularly bad. I've been jonesing for chinese food from the place down the street from us; pizza, preferably with lots of cheese and sauce and stuff that's bad for me on it; chocolate, chocolate and more chocolate, especially in cookie and truffle forms; cheese; ice cream; Doritos, which I haven't wanted for years at this point--I could go on but I'll stop now.
See, the problem is that for the most part I avoid all the above food. The stuff that I don't avoid altogether (like the Doritos), I only indulge in once in a while. Or I'll make a healthier alternative--for example, I was fiending for mac and cheese, so I made the smoked gouda mac that I like so much this week, which is less fat and has spinach and tomatoes in it, among other things, so I get something good out of it. And I recently had ice cream and chinese food. The problem is that none of this stuff seems to be helping. I can't seem to trick my body into not wanting this stuff, and indulging in only a little isn't getting rid of the craving.
The thing that's making it worse is that I constantly feel like I'm hungry. I eat lunch and an hour later my tummy is growling. I've tried tricks here as well--eating more often, eating things that will make me feel full, getting more protein, sticking to my fairly balanced diet--but again, nothing is helping. I still feel hungry.
So now it's all down to willpower. I'm trying not to constantly eat, and I'm trying to keep my junk consumption down and my healthy foods consumption up. I'm trying to make sure that I'm still exercising so that my weight doesn't increase too much. I haven't completely succeeded, but I'm not indulging in stuff nearly as often as my cravings want, and I'm certainly exercising fairly regularly still.
Anyway it will all be over in 3 days, actually probably less the way my cycle has been going. Then I won't feel like eating at all.
I'm not looking for any advice here, just needed to vent. I hate PMS.