I am so crazy that it has taken me this long to uncover a habit that is completely destructive for me! Last night I decided to make myself a healthy sweet treat by mixing cottage cheese with SugarFree, FatFree chocolate pudding mix. Well, it WAS good but I ended up eating three servings, even though I wasn't hungry anymore. The rest of dinner was crab and salad greens, steamed broccoli and whole wheat pasta with salsa and mushrooms. Well as if that wasn't bad enough, it set of something and I found myself eating slices of wholegrain bread with sugar-free syrup and I can't believe it's not butter sprayed on them. Kind of like french toast but in a sick, desperate way.
And so, in looking at past behaviours I have discovered that at DINNER if I eat anything with a SWEET taste, "healthy" or no, "sugar-free" or no, it only makes me eat more. I'm going to experiment with NO SWEET FLAVORS with my dinner meals except on bona fide cheat days.
I am aware that some people do not have this problem. I know people who can eat one cookie and be done. But I'm betting there are people like me, who cannot have "just one" cookie. For some reason during the day I am very controlled. All my problems occur after 8pm. It's dinner and the late night snacks that get me. There has been NO snacking activity in the middle of the night for the past two days. I go STRAIGHT to bed and that is the end of that. Dinner is the official end of my day.