Help with snacking!!

eleonora1809

I’m BIG about snacking too. I always feel the need to snack every night. But I realized that’s because I eat little at dinner. Not only that, I feel midnight snacking is sort of an unbreakable habit. If you start stop snacking once, twice, you’ll become used to not snacking at all.

But if you really can’t help it, eat an apple or cucumber or banana as your snack.
Good luck!

Ralphone

Lol I just went shopping and got a bunch of apoles thinking the same thing. At least snack on something good. Thanks for taking time out to answer. Good luck

hellonew2015

Another thing, Sunflower seeds. It takes about 30 minutes to finish eating about 95 calories for 34grams with shells. Try it if you like seeds and add a small apple to that.

ItsAnonCat

Ralphone wrote: »

Lol I just went shopping and got a bunch of apoles thinking the same thing. At least snack on something good. Thanks for taking time out to answer. Good luck

I have the same problem, last night I tasted a quarter of my daughters banana and actually thought it was delicious. My goal is to go back to eating more fruit as snacks, I was in a whole lot better shape when I snacked on graham crackers, fruits, yogurt and veggies.

Ralphone

hellonew2015 wrote: »

Another thing, Sunflower seeds. It takes about 30 minutes to finish eating about 95 calories for 34grams with shells. Try it if you like seeds and add a small apple to that.

ItsAnonCat wrote: »

Ralphone wrote: »

Lol I just went shopping and got a bunch of apoles thinking the same thing. At least snack on something good. Thanks for taking time out to answer. Good luck

I have the same problem, last night I tasted a quarter of my daughters banana and actually thought it was delicious. My goal is to go back to eating more fruit as snacks, I was in a whole lot better shape when I snacked on graham crackers, fruits, yogurt and veggies.

Thanks for all the good ideas. Hope you are both doing well today with snacking. I want to have a good week trying not to over snack. Put back 1 lb or so last week. I know it was the pbj sandwichs lol. Ok good luck

come back and let me kown how its going. We can try and stay motivated. Have a good day.

Ralphone

Just for the record i ate some left over peeps.ok no so good.thats it for today only good snacks

hellonew2015

Yes stay positive and a few is better than the whole package. I just wanted something sweet so bad so I had one half scoop of protein powder and some cocoa powder drizzled with unsweetened almond milk so I am in deficit still! Let me know what happens tomorrow

Ralphone

Ok will do have a good night

Ralphone

armed with an extra Apple today for snack at work see how we do

Ralphone

Ok flexing my will power lol. Got an apple and stezle water from break tuck. Me 1 snack 0 . Yea me

Ralphone

Okay I held off the Dunkin Donuts that someone brought in to work. Home now had some cottage cheese. going to do work out now good luck 2 for me snack 0 so far

hellonew2015

Good keep it up! I had too many calories last night but moving on and doing better tonight.

Ralphone

hellonew2015 wrote: »

Good keep it up! I had too many calories last night but moving on and doing better tonight.

I know you can do it. Go now and get some good snacks .good luck keep me up to date.

Ralphone

Okay so my wife and her GF brought pizza back last night. Well the rest is history. Me2 snacks 2

Ralphone

good news made it through work today no slip-ups in the snacks Department. So far

Ralphone

okay I feel like I need to have a good snack day today or lack of good luck

REDMANIV

Hello again Ralphone way to go on the snacks for today. One trick of the trade that I like to employ is to go ahead and pre load my "snack bag" for the day. Including my lunch and snacks I go ahead and pre log everything on MFP and stick those items into my snack bag. I then know that I can have anything in that bag and it is available and has already been accounted for in my days total. So the question for me becomes at times, do I want to eat that snack right now? Am I really hungry? Am I just eating because I am bored? If the answer to any of those questions are "Yes" then so what lol....I have already accounted for those calories and I go ahead and munch away.

The kicker is though............once your snack bag is empty...............no more snacks for the rest of the day.....I have found that it is awfully hard to snack if I am exercising or if I am sleep lol.

Hang in there buddy.........another 600 calorie fast day for me today.....no snacks in the budget.........I am down 12 pounds overall though and my clothes are feeling better so this 5day 2day fast diet appears to be working out alright.

Ralphone

REDMANIV wrote: »

Hello again Ralphone way to go on the snacks for today. One trick of the trade that I like to employ is to go ahead and pre load my "snack bag" for the day. Including my lunch and snacks I go ahead and pre log everything on MFP and stick those items into my snack bag. I then know that I can have anything in that bag and it is available and has already been accounted for in my days total. So the question for me becomes at times, do I want to eat that snack right now? Am I really hungry? Am I just eating because I am bored? If the answer to any of those questions are "Yes" then so what lol....I have already accounted for those calories and I go ahead and munch away.

The kicker is though............once your snack bag is empty...............no more snacks for the rest of the day.....I have found that it is awfully hard to snack if I am exercising or if I am sleep lol.

Hang in there buddy.........another 600 calorie fast day for me today.....no snacks in the budget.........I am down 12 pounds overall though and my clothes are feeling better so this 5day 2day fast diet appears to be working out alright.

Thanks for checking in. I like the bag idea. But probably would eat it all at once. Good luck on the fast. I don't know how you do it.

Ralphone

Ok over did a bit today .I was out most of the day and Ate out. I know not an excuse.

joone_9

Just read and now will follow this thread as I’m BIG about snacking too..always have been. When I’ve had success I taught myself to control portions and always planned for the snack..owned it, enjoyed t and logged it. That’s what I’m back doing now but I’m trying to snack on healthier snack instead of junk (I say this as I’m currently eating my 17 mini eggs that are still leftover from Easter)

Ralphone

Hi nice to meet you. Thanks for taking time out to help. I hope you enjoy the candy. I have success as well but we all have our set backs. Good luck and hope to see you back.

Ralphone

Just had a good snack halo and strawberries go me

Ralphone

Last night 200am pbj won

joone_9

Eek..2am snacking..you must be going to bed too hungry to wake up and need to eat. Are you eating too low cal during the day? I didn’t do too bad tonight as I stuck below my cal goal but snacked on popcorn..I need to cut the salt in my diet! I feel like as days go by it’s getting harder to eat cleanly

Ralphone

Keep trying. I think you may be right about calories. But I am kinda stuck around the same wheat for a long time. Okay well PBJ 2 good luck. Thanks for the help.

ereck44

Have you tried freezing some fruit for snack? I love frozen grapes or frozen bananas. Of course, there are days when only Ben and Jerry's will do. I try to make myself earn it though. I still go over on calories at times but doing better. Today I ate some miniature chocolates before I walked out the door at work. So I adjusted my night meal to include mostly vegetables. I changed my work snack to a 90 calorie rice krispy snack instead of my usual 210 calorie protein bar. I hope some of these suggestions help. I keep my diary open. I don't care if strangers know what I eat.

Ralphone

ereck44 wrote: »

Have you tried freezing some fruit for snack? I love frozen grapes or frozen bananas. Of course, there are days when only Ben and Jerry's will do. I try to make myself earn it though. I still go over on calories at times but doing better. Today I ate some miniature chocolates before I walked out the door at work. So I adjusted my night meal to include mostly vegetables. I changed my work snack to a 90 calorie rice krispy snack instead of my usual 210 calorie protein bar. I hope some of these suggestions help. I keep my diary open. I don't care if strangers know what I eat.

Thanks for all the suggestions. Night time snacking he's my biggest problem. I really like peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. But I'm willing to give anything a try. Thanks for taking time out to help me out good luck

EllyGo

I sympathize. Majorly unable to resist temptation these days. Since I try not to keep snacks I like a lot in the house I even find myself eating foods I don’t like that much. I know every diet trick imaginable and unfortunately find myself saying F it and eating anyway. Hope it’s a bad phase I’m going through and I can get back on track soon.

Ralphone

We all have our ups and downs. I know you can get back on track. Good luck and thanks for checking out my post

karenforya

Hi! I'm new as of today. I hear you on the evening temptation of snacking. Very difficult. But I've felt motivation and hope for the first time in awhile. I love Mfp. This is an amazing tool. Just knowing I have support. The struggle is real. But so is the hope of this Mfp community!