Cravings...oh gosh

I hate cravings...just exactly what causes them, does anyone know???  This is how it goes....I eat dinner....I'm full....then about an hour later the cravings set in.  What's up with that?!?!  I'm not even hungry but yet I'm craving something, anything!  I hate it.  I can sit down to dinner and I can tell you BEFORE I even eat, if I will be rummaging thru the cupboards or the frig before the night is over, that I won't be satisfied with the dinner I haven't even eaten yet!!  And they are almost uncontrollable, I feel like a meth addict - I could "almost" sell my soul for something! (not really but it feels that way).  I think that's part of the disease also.  I'm not hungry, I'm bored or whatever mood I'm feeling at the time.

I think that's part of the problem, I won't let myself feel the feeling that I'm having at the time the cravings hit.  My automatic reaction is to stuff it with food.  I should try "just one time" to feel the feeling and see what happens.  I think I'm going to make that my new goal and call it "feel the feeling before eating it away"  what a novel concept! 

For the most part I have been doing better about eating.  I did manage to get rid of those 100 calorie thingies that were screaming my name all the time.  I showed them, I ate them in two days!  Yeah, I really showed them!  I'm glad I'm not getting on the scale anytime soon!  Other then those things, I have been doing better.  I don't eat all the time.  I had an egg sandwich on multi grain bread and a cup of milk and I also had water.  Didn't eat again until lunch - something surprising happened there, went to this place called Braums for a birthday lunch for a couple ladies from church.  Got a chicken strip dinner,  One my 3rd strip (there are only 4)  I was actually feeling full!  Wow - I use to be able to eat all of that, fries, drink and get an ice cream cone for dessert!  I didn't even eat all the fries, I actually threw them away.  Maybe there is something to this eating smaller thing after all!

Don't know what tonight brings, my husband and I are going to do something together.  We talked about going out to dinner or staying in....who knows. 

Later....