Eating when bored

makinemjellis

Make sure you're drinking enough water! I use the app Plant Nanny to help track water.

Danp

Sign up for a Lynda or Udemy or Khan Academy or Coursera or one of the dozens of other online learning sites and expand your skills/knowledge base.

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It may sound silly but one of the best distractions for me is a youtube/wikipeda hole. I'll pick a topic to read/watch and follow the suggested related links. Next thing I know it's an hour (or several) later and I'm watching/reading about something that has absolutely nothing what-so-ever with where I started.

L1zardQueen

Danp wrote: »

Sign up for a Lynda or Udemy or Khan Academy or Coursera or one of the dozens of other online learning sites and expand your skills/knowledge base.

Grab Duolingo or Memrise or Busuu or one of the other language learning sites/apps and start learning a new language.

It may sound silly but one of the best distractions for me is a youtube/wikipeda hole. I'll pick a topic to read/watch and follow the suggested related links. Next thing I know it's an hour (or several) later and I'm watching/reading about something that has absolutely nothing what-so-ever with where I started.

So, in other words, take up surfing! I do this too!

DebLaBounty

When I'm bored, I drive to local hiking trails or the park and take a walk. Or I weigh the snack I'm about to stuff into my mouth and decide whether I can afford the extra calories that day. Sometimes having that information encourages me to choose a lower calorie option. An apple with an ounce of cheese usually does the trick, or some popcorn. It's a challenge to break a habit, but if you substitute something else for the comforting action of bringing food from bowl to mouth, you'll eventually be able to do it.