600-900 snack calories???!

Most of my daily calories come from snacks. I purposely have small meals because I know I am a snacker and need to eat all day long b/c I have low blood sugar. There's nothing wrong with using that many calories for snacks as long as they're not all junk food

Depending on what my main meals have added up to during the day I snack if I'm hungry/if I need to to bring myself up to 1200+ calories. I don't really have a limit on them. Most days they add up to 300ish though. I snack on nuts, dark chocolate, berries, sometimes fruit but it depends on how much sugar I have room for that day, cottage cheese and almond or cashew butter.

I like to have Special K crackers (16) with a slice of colby jack cheese cut into 16 pieces to go on top of each cracker and an apple. Very filling and satisfying!

There's nothing wrong with snacks as long as long as they fit in your daily calorie budget and are healthy (the occasional unhealthy snack is okay too, of course). I typically do a plain greek yogurt with peanut butter or cheese, crackers, almonds, and fruit. Hummus with veggies is another good option.

snack on fruits, veggies and nuts. they will fill you up for longer and have less calories. try to pick berries as they have the least amount of sugar.

I like to have Special K crackers (16) with a slice of colby jack cheese cut into 16 pieces to go on top of each cracker and an apple. Very filling and satisfying!

That sounds SO good!!

-small apple and some low fat string cheese
-a few almonds (been hooked on Emerald's cocoa roasted almonds)
-a slice of ezekiel bread with hummus and cucumber or PB2 with a few slices of banana
-blue diamond almond rice crackers with hummus

There's nothing wrong with snacking as long as you're making healthy choices and staying within your calorie goals. I don't like to put limits or rules on myself - that's too much like dieting, which always failed.

That said, my snacks are typically things like apples, nuts, cheese sticks, granola bars... Much better choices than the oatmeal cream pies and chocolates I used to gobble down.

ETA: I have my diary set up to include 3 meals and 3 snacks.

I'm a snacker so I have to alllow them in my calories.
Yesterday I snacked on Banana, Hazelnuts, Apple + crunchy peanut butter (it is yummy) & a chocolate treat at night time
Total snacking calories 625
But thats how I keep a lid on not indulging in the mindless late night snacking that takes me over my calories.
I don't feel hungry during the day because I'm snacking & I don't feel guilty because I'm still within my calories - its a win win :happy:

Special K Crackers with Hummus or laughing cow cheese wedge
Special K Cracker crisps
Homemade smoothie (frozen berries, 1/2 c almond milk)
Veggies with ranch
PB & Apple
Stila 100 calorie bars
Baked tortilla chips and salsa
ff/sf chocolate pudding w/ff whipped cream
Applesauce
any kind of fruit or make a fruit salad
hard boiled egg and string cheese

Yikes! Those snacks definately add up! I have to limit sodium so it's even harder for me, especially since I love, love, love popcorn. I ended up with roasted edamame (it has salt and is high in calories but its good calories and I limit it to 1/8 or 1/4 cup, unsalted homemade trail mix (sunflower seeds, fruits, nuts) also high in calories but it's great for when you have exercise calories, i love the caramel corn and chocolate crunch rice cakes (50 cals), homemade smoothies made with fat free plain greek yogurt, skim milk and/or juice, bananas, strawberries, blueberries, etc., raw veggies, I cut up a whole head of cauliflower, 3 heads of broccoli and several carrots and bag them up for the week. It's a lot cheaper and I use them in cooking too. Frozen fruit bars are really good and about 70-80 calories. If you have Schwanns, they have fat free frozen raspberry, orange cream bars that are delicious, big and 70 cals. I love those. Plain greek yogurt with 15 cal per tablespoon jam & a bit of ground flax seed or toasted wheat germ or sunflower seeds added, 35 calorie bread as toast or if you like peanut butter & jelly, that works, just measure what you put on it.
You don't have to eat just carrots and celery sticks. You can eat anything if you can control your portion size. If not, stick with all 'healthy' stuff and pick a day that you will treat yourself. I did that at first until I had my snacking under control. Now I know that with exercise and moderation, I am not on a diet. It does get easier! Good luck and <hugs>

Yikes! I just looked back over the last couple weeks and have been averaging between 600-900 (sometimes 1200!) snack calories per day!!!! I need to get a grip on this and am planning to have a new rule called, 1 mornin snack and 1 afternoon snack, no snacks after dinner and all snacks must be fruit or veggie. Sound good? What are your go-to snacks and how many calories do you allow yourself each day?

Are you within your goals for calories and nutrients? If you are, why would this be a problem? I don't call anything a "snack." I renamed the "meals" in MFP to times of the day, and I don't call anything a meal or snack. I eat my main meal at about 3:30 in the afternoon, and I eat everything else when I'm hungry. I often eat three or four times before noon, 100 cal or less each time, then I usually don't eat until my main meal. After that I eat several times in around100 cal amounts before I go to bed. At times, I practice IF and don't eat the morning stuff, eat a slightly bigger main meal and add in a couple more snacks in the evening. But I do not stress about WHEN I eat. I just watch that it fits my calorie and nutrition goals.

You can have your snacks, but try to have a good balance of protein, veggies & fruit, in that order
And save the ice cream for a treat, like once or twice a month, instead of every day.


Edit:
I snack almost all day. I have a bit of something every hour or two. I also plan ahead so I have food with me when I'm out of the house.

re: ice cream - all the local icecream shops have opened up so we've been taking the kids ...hopefully the noelty wears off soon bc I can't afford it! LOL! Plus the other night I bought a box of the WW dark choc raspberry ice creams and I just can't have that stuff in my house! I ate like 3 of them two nights in a row so I just threw away the rest of them last night. That's the problem with a lot of the snacking I do - it would be plenty healthy but I eat too much....like tortilla chips and salsa, it's SO hard not to eat half a bag. I love having a spoon of peanutbutter as a quick protein snack but I love peanutbutter so much that I end up having more than just a spoon and then I'm screwed.

Getting the treats out of the house is a great start :smile
Besides, if it's not good for you, it's not good for the kids. I tell the kids ice cream is a treat, not a snack. And we're stocked with healthy snacks. But once a month we go out for our ice cream treat.

I have little tupperware containers that hold 2TBS I fill them up with peanut butter & have one with me for a quick snack with an apple

I did the same thing when I first started and I still do it occasionally. I love to snack between lunch and dinner. It's a huge struggle for me. Good luck with your goals; they are good ones!

I don'r understand the struggle. What's wrong with eating when you're hungry?