joyce

You have created a dynamic where watching tv triggers your desire to eat, so that habit has to be undone. You can make a rule for yourself that there will be no eating in front of the tv - that if you want something, you have to sit at the dining room table, and eat whatever it is that you want from a proper place setting of plate and cutlery. Often the inconvenience of this allows the habit to subside pretty quickly!! Its like no smoking in the house - you have to go outside in all weather to smoke. Lots of people I know have just decided that this is too much (think Canadian winter). Or while watching tv, get up and do exercise during the commercials - a few jumping jacks, a few situps - whatever. Or get an exercise bike and pedal your *kitten* off watching tv! Get creative and expect results! Good luck!