Nancy wrote:(re: getting in all 5 meal replacements) ~
Yup, it WILL affect your weight loss, your stamina, your health and your energy level if you don't get that last supplement in - we need all five of them.
Eating less than enough is not good.
Eating more than enough is not good.
Eating enough is enough!
I have been pondering this for a couple of days now and am wondering if this might be why my weight loss has slowed down so much.
When I first started, I was really good about getting all 5 meal replacements and the lean/green meal.....but, I've noticed that for the last few weeks, I'm often not hungry (and busy) and more time is passing by between my meals (because I'm either not home or forget and when I realize it's time to eat, I'm like an hour or more late) and so by the end of the day, I'm behind either 1 or 2 meals.
I know it's ok to eat right before bed, so I've been doing that alot lately, but does it matter WHAT I have right before bed? Should it always be a shake or is an oatmeal or soup or bar ok (if I haven't already had my daily allowable bar) too?
When my kids were still in school and I was working at my little part time job, my day was much easier to have on some sort of a schedule....but now that they're home and I'm not working during the summer - it's just like I'm running here or there or entertaining them and their friends - and I just can't seem to get this down.
Anybody else have this problem or does anyone have any suggestions?
Here's an average weekday for me (and then Saturdays are even worse, but Sundays are ok) to show all the running around I'm doing and meal forgettin' that's goin' on.
Wake up @ 6:15
- Take my daughter to swim practice @ 6:30 (I am NOT hungry this early at all)
Bring her home at 8:00 and I have an oatmeal or shake.
8:30 - Go back up to pool with my other daughter for practice & come home at 9:45. Then I'm getting my son ready for his practice (he's only 4) so I'm too busy to eat again (plus it's not even been 2 hours yet). We leave about 10:15 and get home about 11:30 or 12:00 - and sometimes even a little later if they want to stay at the pool to "play" instead of "work".
So, now I'm ready for my 2nd meal and it's late.
So, usually by 1:00 I'm having a soup or sometimes an oatmeal - depends on if I had a shake or oatmeal for my 1st meal.
Then anywhere between 3-5, I'll either have a soup or shake or sometimes this is when I'll have the lean/green meal.
Then between 6-8 (depending on the above meal) I'll either have a shake or soup or the lean/green.
Now, it's late in the evening and around 9-11 (depending on what time I had the above one) I'll have a shake usually
(or sometimes a bar). So - this last meal and it's my 4th replacement. Sometimes it will be my 5th replacement if I didn't do the lean/green, but then I'm still one short - according to the "rules".
I really had my goal last week to work harder on getting all 5 squeezed in, but it was another week like the priors, so now I'm asking for advice.
I'm doing excellent on my water intake
- usually averaging 64-96 oz a day, so that's not a problem. I've got water with me ALL the time.
Ok, sorry for the super long post
with probably way more details than you want/need to know, but every night when I lay down
, I just think through the day and count up what I did, and it's never enough.
I'm a night owl, so I could probably have 2 late at night before bed, but then I wonder if that's a bad habit or not and they would be squeezed together pretty close and I know we're not supposed to "double" up, which I really wouldn't be doing, but what's the closest amount of time to have 2 meals spaced apart. I'm usually trying to keep them about 3 hours apart - or at least - that's my intentions....
Well, thanks (in advance) guys...you're all awesome!!