no snacks?//

[emyno17]

how could i manage the "all day long need of something to eat"...you know what i mean...snacks-snacks!!!!??//

[moreless Administrator 7 stone]

By eating the correct foods that both fill you up and don't cause cravings, emyno! If you're able, work snacks into your calorie allowance, but don't rely on them to graze all day. A few healthy snacks to get you through to the next meal, or the odd, less-than-healthy snack, won't hurt, but when they take over from normal meals, then things are going a little off piste and need reassessing

Log onto the Daily Diary, for ideas and focus

[emyno17 in reply to moreless]

THANKS A LOT. i'm so new here that i 'm digging for an hour to get the 12 weeks plan..but still no succes. could somebody tell me the exact steps on getting it. ??/appreciate!

[moreless Administrator 7 stone in reply to emyno17]

If you follow my original instructions, the Newbie thread has a link to the 12 week plan and it's also highlighted on our HOME page. On the right, if using a computer, at the bottom, if using a phone

[Stevo5585 7lbs]

Hi emyno17, welcome to the site.

Let me tell you how I fought off the snacking urge and won, a little background first...

I'm trying to eat healthy in an environment that really isn't the best to do it in. I have a fridge behind me, a communal one, that is stocked regularly with chocolate, Snickers, Bounties, Mars, KitKat and Galaxies, all free of charge. Next to it is a coffee table stocked with biscuits, nuts, dates and packets of crisps, again all free of charge.

I can't get rid of them, it's a shared office, so to defeat my snacking habit I did this.

Made sure I ate my 3 meals a day, then made sure I had access to fruit, pears, plums and grapes are my go to snack attack killers now. I also made sure that whenever I felt peckish I would drink 660 ml of water. My water intake shot up, my rubbish intake dropped through the floor. If I still felt puckish after the water I would have some fruit.

It's working, I'm hitting my calorie targets, and every now I'll work it so I have a spare 258 cals and I will have Bounty, just because I can!

[emyno17]

i've got the 12 weeks plan...it's already downloaded!!!

this is my fisrt day of 12 weeks' journey!!

wish me luck!!!

[bikegrrrl 1lb]

Hi Stevo5585 , emyno17 , moreless - I am a newbie too.

I second Stevo's tips about fruit. My office has biscuits etc available too, but a colleague has started a fruit bowl which is quite popular!

Find out about "good" snacks - that you like! - and their calorie counts and work them into your day and your total calorie allowance. So for me that's fruit, plain popcorn, pickled onions, carrot sticks, radishes... I love all of these so it's no hardship to ignore the crisps, biscuits etc.

Also protein is filling, I'm partial to anchovies, rinsed, a huge flavour hit so you don't need many. But what works for you is what's important.

I have breakfast, lunch and dinner, and a piece of fruit in the morning and a piece of fruit in the afternoon.

[PTKeith]

Er? so according to what you are saying you should be eating a max of 864 calories a day?

I agree Totally with Moreless. If you eat foods that are nutritionally dense and filling you will not feel hunger as you will always feel full up. I split my meals into 5 a day so I am always only a couple of hours away from a meal. So if your calories are a total of 2000 a day you will get 5 meals of 400 calories. If you eat a meal containing protein, carbs and fat and a good portion of green veg with lots of fibre you will feel full up for longer. And that includes breakfast, too may people eat rubbish like cereal for breakfast and this just gives you a carb spike that will make the body desire more carb spikes, i.e. the cookie jar!!