Snacks and Timing

So lately I've been super craving snacks. I get up around 5:15 and have a cup of coffee. Walk a mile to be at work by 7am. I eat breakfast around 7:45am - I drink a cup of coffee and three glasses of water before lunch - I'm dying for lunch by 11:30am and have to struggle to make it there - lately I've been nibbling (not good nibbling) around 9:30 - 10am. - I drink another three glasses of water after lunch. Then around 1:30 - 2p I'm dying for "after school milk and cookies". I walk a mile home around 3:30 or 4pm. I usually eat dinner around 5 - 5:30pm to avoid snarfing anything I can find in the house when I get home from work.

I know my lunch is lacking in protein which will probably help. I tried eating breakfast later this morning today, it sort of curbed the morning snack. But I was still dying for lunch by noon. I eat both breakfast and lunch at work so they need to be relatively portable and snarfable between guests needs, housekeeper needs and phone calls (I don't really get a real lunch break).

My Kashi Bar is a nice afternoon snack that I recently discovered again (rather than previously having nothing available and eating raw cookie dough - bad - bad - bad). I also like to save a bunch of calories for dinner so I eat a light lunch. I can't eat nuts - no allergies, just no self control, I love, love, love them. If I then have calories leftover I usually have a 1/2 cup of yogurt with chocolate, fruit or nuts.

I guess by writing all this down I've talked myself into eating breakfast later in the day - avoiding the mid-morning snack - trying to extend lunch a little later in the day and adding a protein - eating a better quality afternoon snack - and keeping dinner as is.

I'm also wondering how much of my snacking is from boredom. All snack times come at transition times during my day - and what better transition than a snack

Thanks for letting me work this out with y'all. Any thoughts or alternate suggestions would be much appreciated.

(If you do look at my diary - I try to leave 100 - 200 calories leftover for my nibbling habits which I'm sure easily consumes that.)