Snacking

I was the same way !!! so bad but I stopped. Now I eat dinner when i get home and if I get hungry later, i have some 100 calorie popcorn, or hummis, or skinny cow ice cream !!! Yum its so good and low calorie. Hope this helps...

I'm snacking right now on edamame beans

When I get home from school........I snack....a lot. bad habit, hard to break.

Snacking is good. Snacking is healthy. Snacking helps balance your blood sugar levels and helps you eat more reasonable meals.

But snacking is utterly dependent on WHAT you are snacking on, and how much of it.

First, you said "school". I don't know your age, and won't ask because it's none of my beeswax, but the dietary balance of this site is largely for adults who have stopped growing. Having said that, an approximate half-carb, 1/3-protein, remainder-fat diet is what the site strives for and it's probably a reasonable balance if you're at least high school. If you're trying to lose weight (or avoid gaining it) seeing your doctor for a more tailored plan might be a better idea, but it's a start.

Younger folk with all that growing left to do tend to need to eat more food, and more often. Again, see a nutritionist or doctor who can come up with an age-appropriate plan for you, but if you're hungry when you get home from school, and you have healthy foods available, and they fit into a reasonable caloric intake for you, then why make yourself hungry and miserable?

Log your snacks on your food log along with everything else, and if you are within your allotment for calories, and they are reasonably balanced, then don't be afraid to SNACK!!! Eat when you're HUNGRY, not later - because later you'll just want to eat more.

If you find yourself eating junk foods just to fill the void, then you need to stop that. If you're still living with parents, ask them (politely) to not have those foods available. Pick a healthy snack and ask them to get some of that for you to munch. Be honest with what you are eating, at least to yourself, and try to satisfy hunger with good, solid, food. Not white sugary garbage that isn't really helping you.

Eat the snack and drink 16 oz of water before you step into your house.

I find that my body frequently confuses hunger and thirst (especially if I've eaten anything salty - hence the origin of the myth that "if you eat Chinese food, you're hungry an hour later" - actually you are suffering from acute thirst and early-stage dehydration due to all the sodium in the MSG!).

If I'm hungry and I don't feel like I should be (just ate something recently, etc), I'll quite often down a glass of water and wait ten minutes. If I'm STILL hungry, then it was really hunger and I have a small snack.

In this case, with a school-age person getting home hungry, if they are in middle- or high school, he/she probably really is hungry. Schools do away with "snack time" long before young growing bodies really NEED a snack mid-afternoon.

But water is ALWAYS a good idea! So a glass of water should go with every snack.

as long as you are snaking on good stuff its not a bad habit. If you are hungry EAT! I snack on nuts or cheese or celery with peanut butter.

As a teacher, I get home from school and am so hungry! I've found that having a 100 cal snack in my car on the way home and then chewing gum helps me not to snack. We eat dinner pretty early (around 5 or 5:30) so I usually have about an hour after I get home until we eat dinner.

I always keep a stash of pickled onions or guerkins in the cupboard for times when i get the nibbles.

next to nothing in them and keeps the edge off.