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.

I am home by 5 and eat my dinner at 8pm. In that 3 hr gap, I try to eat a fiber one bar or half a cup of dry cheerios or half cup coffee with milk.

Instead of fighting it, accommodate it. Make that your snack time and budget your daily calories for it. That's how I handle my after dinner snacking.

^^^THIS is me too! I have an early lunch time 10:30-11 so I am hungry way before dinner time which is usual around 6:30 (unless we have a baseball game or track meet then it can be even later) so I "budget" an afternoon snack in my calories! My go to one is a 60 calorie reduced fat cheddar cheese stick & 60 calorie jacks links beef jerky stick, LOTS of protein so it's filling and all under 150 calories!!

I bring a piece of snack cheese, fiber one bar, or a banana to work with me and eat it about 30 minutes before I leave. Then I head straight to the gym until dinner time

If you feel that you need to snack when you get home, then you are not being satidfied enough during the day. I used to eat 3 sqaure meals a day, now its 6 small meals and I find that I dont snack. Try adding more protein in your meals and make sure you are eating breakfast. Its been proven, especially in women that if we eat a well rounded breakfast with atleast half of your daily intake of protein, you will find yourself less hungry and snacking during the day. If you have an afternoon snack say between 2-3, you will not want to snack when you get home. Try having almonds, greek yogurt, string cheese or other foods that are high in protein, low in fat and carbs. Good luck!

I used to struggle with this as well. So, I tried to switch things up a bit and I changed my eating habits. Instead of just eating breakfast, lunch and dinner, I have broken my day down into "mini- meals". I have breakfast, am snack, lunch, pm snack, dinner and before bed snack - each meal is about 200-400 calories so I usually don't even eat all of my calories for the day, especially when I get a good work out in. I literally feel like I am eating ALL day long and I am FULL all day long too. This leads to less binging, because you are eating all of the time anyways, you just have to make healthy choices - fruit, cheese, hard boiled eggs, veggies, pretzals, protein shakes, salads etc. That way, if you are a snacker like I am, you plan for it and it works for you. Don't fight your body, work with it and you will get the best results. Good luck!!