HELP!!!! I have an addiction:(

I can relate - it's like we think those secretive calories consumed in the dark don't count. :-S

Have you considered playing with your sleep schedule? I know it sounds weird, but you might try getting up REALLY early and eating a healthy, protein-heavy breakfast. Stay up (no napping!) and focus on eating healthfully every 4-6 hours and getting a good workout in. By the time 9:00 rolls around you should be wiped out, and hopefully the novelty of the shake-up in your personal schedule will carry you over into repeating it the next few days so that you can sort of start building a new habit? Good luck! :-)

I also have a similar issue. The best way i know to do it, is to eat every 2-3hours. I take what i plan to eat for lunch and cut it in half. I eat one half at my lunch time and save the other half for 2 hours later to get me over that hump till dinner. Frequent, low cal snacks really help too. Also drink lots of water threw out the day, helps you feel fuller and notice that you are actually full. I even put slices or lemon, limes and or oranges in my water to help increase the amount i drink. GL! You can do this!

i'm right there with you. i've learned a few tricks to help myself stay on track. first, i drink some ice water before i'll let myself snack. filling up my cup and sipping it through a straw are sometimes enough to sidetrack myself, so i don't even think about snacking. if i still want something, i sit and think about what i really want. sweet, salty, creamy, etc. if i can't make up my mind, i stick to water. if i know what i want, i will allow it, if i still have the calories. if not, i have to work off the calories before i eat it. often, that's enough to put me off it, cuz i don't want to work out or walk if it's late.

another trick is to keep 100 calorie snacks in the pantry. either the prepackaged, or ones i repackage. i will buy the snacks i like, including m&ms etc, and repack them into single servings, or half servings. that way i can get a taste to satisfy my craving, without eating my way through a box of cookies or bag of chips. you still need your willpower not to grab 5 baggies, but it does help. and knowing how long it took to count/measure out the servings helps me stick to one serving. one last thing: skinny cow caramel truffle ice cream bars will satisfy a snack craving completely. 130 calories and delicious, i have yet to keep snacking after having one. good luck!

I used to have an "addiction" to diet pepsi. I wanted to stop drinking it but didn't think I'd be able to. So I looked up info on how to change a bad habit. I read that it takes about 21 days to change a habit so this guy suggested that you print out a calendar with 21 dates and the numbers printed on it (so if you were starting today Day 1 would be 8/26/11). Then, everyday you don't do the habit, you cross out that date. BUT, if you slip up, you START ALL OVER AGAIN. So, for example, if you mess up on Day 7, instead of being on Day 8 the next day, you would be back to Day 1. It sounds simple but it helped me because I thought, well, I only have to try this for 21 days and if I can't do it, I'l stop then. It made it seem easier than having to do it forever. I drank tons of Diet Pepsi and haven't had any since Feb. 1st. Don't know if this will help you but it sure helped me.