....lots? like lots and lots, almost incessantly, constantly and of vast proportions? I'm beine mainly good about what i'm quite frankly stuffing in my cakehole.... however, its madness, day 19, if its not nailed down then i'm busy nomming it, thankfully the fridge is too big to put in in one go, i'll have to fetch the screwdriver and take it apart... hmmm door first 1 think, lightly seasoned.... sluuurp!
This is just a phase? argh! i hope so.... not had the raging munchers before today in my quit.
Please reassure me it'll stop before i end up the size of a house... or at least a bungalow....
Gym starts tomorrow! Phew!
I have been craving a bit more today i have to say.
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I can't deny I'm partial to a midget gem or two...
So that's where all my midget gems have gone
My appetite is coming back. Still not fancying red meat and really fancying fish, marmite and fruit - lots and lots of fruit.
I did put 2 stones on when I had my first long quit, but I am going to do that 2 day fast/ 5 day normal thing that I saw on Horizon a few months ago. Some people on here are talking about it too and it seems they are finding it works.
At the start of my quit I lost 6Lb as I couldn't eat I felt that bad 2 weeks after I couldn't stop eating but only put that 6lb on and on other 3. Now back to eating normal.
I do eat more fruit and veg since iv quit. Lots ov fruit as since iv quit I do get loads of sugar dips now. It was chocolate but iv stopped buying it in now. As I ate a whole 2000g box of coc biscuits in 2 week.
U normal out Carnt say when as we all diffednt. I don't belive telling pll there symptoms or cravings will be gone in a few weeks as we are a diffednt.
I didn't deprive my self in anything them first few month. I ate wot I fancied. Slept wen I felt tired exercised when I felt I had energy.
Eat all you want, way better than smoking and it'll pass anyway. Interesting article here which has helped me understand a little more about what's happening to me during this quit, hope it helps you:
I ate a lot the first month I'd say. I also slept all the time the first month or so as well. I was sooo tired constantly then. I went from 185 pounds before my quit up to 201 pounds around 3 weeks ago. Tomorrow makes 4 clendar months since my quit. Almost 3 weeks ago I started jogging/walking which I hate so much!! I watch what I eat also and I'm at 192 pounds as of today. I also believe we are all different but yet we do share many of the same symptons as well. These things seem to happen in phases. It does get better without a doubt so hang in there. I can honestly say that and I also feel much better besides the freaking jogging I hate so much but it has helped. You can do this!!!
It's been said many times, but is perhaps worth repeating on this thread ...
If you feel the need to eat/nibble/snack/shove something in your mouth - and don't want to end up the size of a house (or a bungalow), then try some frozen grapes. I bought them on an industrial scale when I quit. Just bunged them in the freezer and went rummaging whenever the urge/craving/there-is-something-missing-in-my-life feeling came upon me.
A ramekin-ish-sized portion takes long enough to nibble through, and gives your hands something to do for long enough, that by the time you're through,the urge to smoke has passed. And you are full of grapes, rather than chocolate/crisps/sweets/everything-unhealthy-you-can-find-at-the-back-of-the-cupboards.
I feel your pain. I was moaning to my husband about this last night.
In Jan 2011 I went on a diet and lost 2.5 stones. I was soooo proud of the new me and threw all my old clothes away and bought new.
Since i stopped smoking I could eat constantly. I even bought a big tin of Quality Street yesterday :rolleyes:
Anyway, I have put on about 3Ibs and i really don't want this to be a trend. i think i will have to buy some chewing gum or something at lunchtime.
Incidentally, after scoffing about 9 chocolates last night, i gave the rest of the tin of Quality Streets to my husband to take into work for a treat. I really handed them over begrudgingly though.
Hi a good idea handing over them chocolates it saves you pigging out on them all , but you really should have given them to me as i would have taken real good care of them for you
Ooooh yessss i can see you would have kept porcupines choccies really safe..... and digested!! Hehehehe!
Currently i'm doing better, not doing the junk, but i'm totally addicted to ryvita and dairylea, like totally nommmmmm. I think it'll wear off soon though.. good point is that i dont have problems with the ahem toilet patterns which i have on previous quits... go fibre!!!!! :eek:
Hi a good idea handing over them chocolates it saves you pigging out on them all , but you really should have given them to me as i would have taken real good care of them for you
I will remember that for the next time I buy something wonderfully gorgeous and fattening
So glad I'm not the only one. Tried the fasting thing, but my husband has gone back to UK for 2 weeks, so finding dieting a little difficult at the moment. It would help if I didn't plan what to stuff my face with when the children are all in bed.
I get up at 6am, get the children up and dressed, take the dog out while they have breakfast, get them to school and nursery for 8am, come home and eat breakfast until around lunchtime. I feel lethargic and ill, time to get off my backside, move around and eat some healthy food. Must get back to the fasting, it really helped and I had so much more energy.
What I do now is.. Just don't buy any crap food in. When u have them in ur tempted to eat them all.
If I want a treat and it's always at night wtching the soaps. It means I have to get dressed and walk the shop for it. If I really do want chocolate then I will go. But 9 times out if 10 I don't really want it. So will have a few strawberry etc. or a hot chocolate. And cherry tomatoes on the vine are great for a sweet craving too.
Ohhhhhhn yes I hear you guys on the eats! Day 16 and I can't stop eating! Doesn't make much of a difference what I eat eather! Part of my problem is that I have 2 brand new, out of the box, senses: taste and smell. Before I had none. Now the world is a treasure chest of them! So I went out tonight and really splurged on a ton of fruit. Grapes, kiwi's, bananas, peaches, plums pawpaws, granadillas, minneolas.... to name but a few lol. I sure hope this phase ends soon though! Because yep I can see a problem with so much going in and nothing coming out for days...... :eek: lol
Glad to read I'm not the only one that's taking an extra, big helping of food and snacks. I'm grazing Ann day, everyday. However, so pleased to be not smoking.
Hopefully we can all address the weight issues once the not smoking is cracked.
The fear of gaining weight was one of the many things that kept me from qutting (or sticking to quitting).
In the early days since I stopped for good (bearing in mind i'm only in my 10th week), I gained 7lb. I made the decision before I stopped that I wouldn't prevent myself from eating more if that's what helped, but also that I wouldn't allow myself to replace ciggies with food.
I quit using champix which made me feel very sick at some times of the day. It wasn't the sort of nausea which puts you off eating - in fact if anyting I felt the nausea was relieved by eating - so I was in double danger.
I bought some very small tupperware style boxes and filled each one with a different type of food so I'd be taking to work several small boxes containing things like: a handfull of nuts, a handfull of raisons, some grapes/blueberries, a couple of little chocolates, some dates, a couple of cubes of cheese (anything really that I could think of). Throughout the day, every hour or so I'd let myself eat one of these snack boxes. It meant that I had something to look forward to, I was preventing myself feeling sick, I was sure to get a healthy snack and at some points real treats. But also, I was not going to over eat as there was only ever no more than a small handfull of each food item per box. By the time I got to about 5 weeks I stopped and gradually went back to normal eating but conciously avoiding eating in between meals unless it was fruit. I've recently started the alternate day diet (where one day you eat 500 cals and the next day eat normally) and have lost about 3lb of the 7 I gained in the first few weeks of quitting.
Hope any of the above makes sense;it really worked for me in keeping the weight gain to a minimum and meant that I could control the quantities and prevented me from replacing smoking with eating, whilst giving me some comfort in the early days of stopping.
I'm not saying it's easy. I still find myself wondering what to do with my hands and mouth ( and have had several rude suggestions from my fiance!), so I make a cup of coffee or tea and have that instead and that's my replacement. (on a low calorie day I drink black coffee and tea).
I'm sure I'm trying to compensate for the lack of smoking with sugar. To me it tastes as nice as smoking is horrible so been dulling my cravings with it.
No more though, almost reaching week 3 and the hardest stage is over so the sugar will be going.
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and have had several rude suggestions from my fiance!), so I make a cup of coffee or tea and have that instead and that's my replacement. (on a low calorie day I drink black coffee and tea). 
Day 4 - Anyone else at this stage?
