After work/Before Dinner snacking

Yes 100% yes this is me, I get a snack and am satisfied but then keep on goin back. I know I'm not hungry but I am alone in a house full of food! I don't really have any advice on this, I fel your pain I am also looking for help in this area.

fiber one bars make u fuller. I eat one at like 730 pm.

I have the same problem. I try to replace the snacks with a cup of tea or two which often helps. Also if you keep going back to the fridge I found it helpful to have a chewing gum. It will get rid the good taste that you keep craving and also gives you something to do at the same time.

I eat a small snack shortly before I leave work. I am diabetic and that is usually a blood sugar low time for me. I try to eat some cheese and fruit or peanut butter and fruit and it tides me over till dinner. I don't get the horrible hungries.

Plan plan plan!

Having a snack and planning the snack has worked for me. I usually have almonds and couple of glasses of water. Sometimes yougurt or fruits. But it is planned. As long as i stick to my plan i am ok till dinner.

This is also my biggest challenge...maybe a bad habit from being a kid? I'd come home from school STARVING and Mom would tell me not to eat because I'd spoil my appetite so I'd sneak food. Now when my kids come home from school they can finish whatever is left in their lunchboxes (usually fruit) and I get dinner going right away. We eat early (4:30) and a light snack before bed.

I eat my main meal at noon so the rest of the day for me is pure snacking within my calorie intake.

I hate to say it but i know exactly what you are talking about... There is no sure fire way to cure this that i know about... if there is i am sure someone with all the text book answers will reply but in my opinion, different things work for different people. What works for me??? The only time i am able to forgo a snack after work is when i excercise before getting home (I typically go jogging on my lunch break which is not a luxery that many people have) but also if i am not able to go during my lunch break i go jogging directly after work for like a half hour or so and then by the time I get home I feel full already (I know that jogging releases something that makes your tummy feel full or something to that effect). In addition to feeling full, I feel enegized and ready to do more productive things around the house than grab the bag of spicy chilli doritos and sit in front of the TV and kick my shoes off and indulge in the snack that I've earned after a hard days work... I digress... anyway. Not to mention, lastly, after I work out I'm less likely to want to do anything to 'ruin the skinny' as (Wendy Williams would say) with snacking. I snack less on the days that i work out because i honestly do not feel hungry and even if i were hungry I would be less likely to reach for something unhealthy after just killing myself Jogging and flushing all that hard work down the drain... :happy:

I usually have a snack because I'm legitimately hungry at that time. But if it's boredom hunger, I try to keep busy. I cook dinner most nights which keeps me busy from the time I walk in the door to the time I eat dinner. Last night was tough - dinner needed to cook in the oven for an hour so I went upstairs and watched some TV and caught up on some other stuff. The further away from the fridge, the better off I am.

eat dinner earlier, it worked for me! I found Im hungry usually during the middle part of the day, I was eating dinner around 630-730, now I eat at 5 and I usually feel fine until bedtime this way.