What do you do when the munchies creep up.

My plan is to schedule my food and nutrition in such a way as to avoid the munchies altogether. It works.

Breakfast = high protein and fiber before work. Lunch = 4 hours after arriving at work, very light. Dinner = variety of good stuff within the remaining available calories. Snacks = Whatever calories are available after my dinner.

Tums yes Tums helps a lot.

Enriching food and drink tastes with things that cost no calories: garlic, pepper, ginger, vanilla, herbs, drop of orange juice, etc.

I try to stay ahead of hunger by eating nutrient-dense foods—such as avocado, flaxseed, salmon, quinoa, berries, nuts, vegetables and legumes.

Ps, they sell them almost anywhere, Walmart, Kroger brand, in the water isle lol

Drink water or try to fit the craved good into my calorie goal. Sometimes I just need an indulgent snack.

La Croix or Simply Ice drinks.

I turn off the stupid food shows that are always on!

Drinking lots of water helps.. most of the time we feel hungry, we're actually thirsty. Drinking heaps of water helps to fill us up :-)

MrsDogLady wrote: »

I'm sure there are a few amusing ideas out there that help you overcome those weak moments. Like mine for instance, if I change the path I drive home tonight I'll skip driving past all those fast food places and groceries stores. Instead I can get straight home and the craving will have passed. Anyone else want to share their strategies?

go ahead and satisfy yourself with what your wanting just look at the calories on the back and calculate what you can have to fit your daily goal

I have a small teapot full of jasmine green tea, or whatever tea I have available if I run out of jasmine green tea. I also have a navel orange with it as well.

As others have suggested, I kept tweaking my macro/micro levels (within a healthy range) and timing of eating until I rarely felt hungry/crave-y when losing.

The exact formula to accomplish satiation varies by individual, but a good general approach is to review your diary often at first, looking for opportunities to replace foods that "cost" too much in calories with others you enjoy that are tastier, more filling, or better meet nutritional goals.

At the same review, look for things that may've triggered your bout of undesired crave-y-ness, like less sleep, more stress, boredom, habit, under-nutrition beforehand, social cues, timing of eating vs. exercise, dehydration, etc. (Sometimes it can be things on the previous day!) Then you can think of new strategies to try that may address the underlying cause.

After I got to a satisfying routine, I knew what to do if I had a rare case unexpected hungries when it wasn't close to mealtime: I needed a small protein snack. I started keeping something shelf-stable in my car to nip the hunger in the bud when necessary, such as dry-roasted soybeans, individual packs of all-parmesan crisps, or single-portion bags of seeds or nuts. That specific snack type wouldn't work for everyone, but it was what worked for me.