I’ve mentioned before that weekends seem to be the hardest time for me to stay on track. And this continues to be true, but I have also discovered that I have a second “hardest time” that I need to battle through every day.
It’s the dreaded “Evening: 6:00 – 10:00” I can stay on track pretty well throughout the day but after supper I get munchie. You know what I mean. I just want my mouth to have something to chew… chocolates, popcorn, chips, cookies, etc, etc, etc… And it’s never the healthy food I crave. Nope. It’s the stuff that I can’t seem to stop pigging out on.
So, I’ve started drinking herbal tea after supper. (I can’t have caffeine after 4:00 so it has to be something caffeine free or I’ll never get to sleep.) My favorite right now is Peppermint Tea, but I picked up a sample pack the other day to try some new flavors. I’m still working my way through them, but so far none of them top Peppermint for me. The nice thing about tea these days is that it’s nice and warm–which is nice. Especially this past week when we were stuck in the negatives for days! Plus it’s an extra glass of water in my day, which is so much better for me than a handful of chocolates! It usually takes me 10-15 min. to finish a cup and by then I usually have my resolve back or am not quite as hungry anymore.
I’m not generally a tea drinker (I prefer coffee in the mornings) but this has helped me continually get through that dreaded time of day–as I’m hoping it will continue to do!
I had a cup of the most amazing tea this morning. Dad got it for Christmas last year and finally brought home what he hadn’t consumed. It is a chocolate mint concoction that is somehow a tea. Not that great unsweetened, but put in a packet of stevia and it is awesome. It is called Chocolate Mint Rooibos and is from Johanna May’s Fine Teas out of Weston, WI. http://www.johannamaysfineteas.com