A Day in the Life of… warts and all. I’ll go into meticulous detail assuming you have the same knowledge of food and cooking as I did 2-20 years ago. Here are Part I (breakfast), Part II (lunch), and Part III (dinner) of A Day in the Life of…

The Witching Hour

I don’t have any alcohol Sunday through Thursday evenings. I don’t drink beer anymore at home. On the rare once-every-6-months that I do drink a beer, it will be at a restaurant or someone’s house if wine is not available.

WINE

I’ll have 2-4 glasses of wine on Friday and Saturday nights. On Sunday through Thursday nights, I’ll stick with my water. The only three liquids that I drink are water, coffee (between 7am-2pm nearly daily), and wine (Friday-Saturday).

I try (and the key word is try) to have a 12 hour gap between my last bit of food in the evening until I eat breakfast the next day. This 12 hour gaps is achieved probably 3-4 times a week. For those other 3-4 times a week I succumb to the Witching Hour, and this is what happens…

CHOCOLATE

I tend to have 90% Lindt chocolate about 3 times a week. Friday and Saturday nights either it’s a bar stretched over 2 nights, or a bar each Friday and Saturday evening. These weekend chocolates are purchased when I buy the wine. Probably about one night a week, somehow I end up stopping by the store to get the chocolate. Usually, it’s when I have a couple of more hours to do of work at home, and I’ll have some chocolate with my another ill-advised cup of coffee.

BACON

About two times a week on a work night around 8pm-9pm I eat bacon. Anywhere from 5-10 strips of it.

Yup. I do.

What I really want is some chocolate, or some wine or some Reese’s peanut butter cups.

The chocolate aint a bad choice at all but I try to save that just for Fridays and Saturdays. The wine is simply not an option on a worknight with a 5am wake-up. Maybe for some people it’s not a big deal to have one glass a night, I just can’t handle it every night. I start feeling too wino-ish, I don’t like for wine to be a crutch for stress relief. I like my wine to complement a good meal with a good atmosphere.

And the Reese’s, I gave up eating peanuts completely and only eat nuts of any kind very rarely. The only chocolate I eat is if it has 70% and above cocoa content.

I have acquired an aversion to eating fruit right before bed, and rarely have it for dinner. I make it a point especially in the evening not to eat anything that spikes my blood sugar and insulin levels… Well other than the wine on the weekends, and the high quality chocolate, which has a sugar content 6.5 times less than a standard American chocolate bar. So, that leaves bacon.

And if bacon isn’t available, I’ll eat part of the meat that I cooked for my next day’s lunch. Or, I’ll grill or fry up a hamburger.

And that’s my strategy for dealing with the Witching Hour. For anyone in my modest readership dealing with compulsive eating issues, overeating, anxious eating, etc., especially in the evening, this is how I do it. It may work for you, it may not.

Any fruit that I may have in the course of the day I try to have it just for breakfast and lunch. The exception is a sprinkle of raisins in my evening salad (if I have one). Bacon or another helping of meat or fish, it beats mainlining sugar. That simple.

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