Snacking Is Killing Me

Snacks and candy are free at my workplace. At the beginning of this weight loss journey, I planned my food each day to allow one snack from the candy bowl. After a month of having one Hershey Kiss each day, I got to where I just didn't want the candy any longer. So, I quit planning for it and was ok.

Snacking is what sent me to morbidly obese in the first place. I feel your pain. What has worked for me during dieting and now during maintenance is eating more than 3 meals a day. Granted, I do a LOT of exercise six days a week, so I earn up to 1000 extra calories so it's not like I don't have the calories to eat. My meals generally look like this:

Pre-Workout: Just what it says, I drink a pre-workout right before working out first thing in the AM (very early)
Breakfast: Around 500 cals, Usually bran cereal with half a banana (I freeze them in slices and put them in the cereal) and a 60g protein shake for after my workout.
Lunch: Usually 500ish calories, high protein if I can do it. Chicken/Tuna/Eggs/Egg Salad whatever I can come up with that is low in calories but high in protein, and I eat it with multi-grain bread usually for the extra fiber.
Dinner: Up to 1000 cals, I try for 750ish but you know how it goes. High protein again, good fiber, good veggies if possible. Almost always have a potato or sweet potato with dinner or baked/steamed veggies or both.
Late Snack: 3-400 calories usually For me it's no sugar added ice cream. Good source of fiber, less sugar, and yes, I'm addicted.

Splitting things up like that helps me to not snack.

To agree with some of the above posters, if I feel like I want to snack on something I pop a strong minted gum in my mouth (mentos has a good one). I'd rather have 5 calories from that then whatever snack I was searching for

Snacking is the devil.
I just keep telling me that.
It's so hard to say no to snack. I try to eat roasted edamame, yogurt, or cucumbers when I need a snack.

I think it depends on what you mean by snacking. I assume you mean unplanned eating. I chew gum or eat a few tic tacs if I feel I just have to eat something. Otherwise I have planned snacks throughout the day.

Pick snacks that are low cal or will keep you full. I like to snack on popcorn.

I snack a lot and stay in my calorie range and am rarely hungry. The key for me is to snack on raw veggies during the day. It may take me all morning to eat them. Usually 3 servings. I usually keep a piece of fruit and Greek yogurt in a lunch bag if I need it in the afternoon. I usually do, as I try to get two dairy everyday. Nothing wrong with snacking if you are doing it healthy and counting it. I have found the longer I eat this way the less I crave the junk.

This is a HUUUGE problem for me as well. It's gotten to where if I didn't snack, I would have perfect days... but totally WRECK it the last couple hours of the day before bed. So, what I've started doing: eating large meals so I'm not hungry (I've been known to eat less dinner so I can have a snack before bed... but then over-eating said snack!). Drinking water .... brushing my teeth so I won't have anything else to eat... distracting myself with household chores so I'm too busy to snack. 9/10 times we snack out of boredom, not hunger. Good luck!

Ughh same here like at 10 pm I always get hungry for a snack and has to be a sweet

Quit snacking perhaps?