What do you do if you can’t stop snacking? (eating in between meals)
Part of the trouble is that there’s food available almost everywhere you turn.
Of course, the candy manufacturers know that we love to snack and they do their best to make sure their products are available everywhere.
Which doesn’t help you when you decide to reduce your snacking or even give up snacking altogether.
Here are some simple tips to help you either stop snacking completely or at least cut down on your snacking:
Don’t shop on an empty stomach. You’ll buy more food and the chances are that at least some of it will be “comfort food” that you’ll snack on – either on your way home or over the coming days.
Don’t starve yourself. Diets are useful at times but we have a tendency to fight them and snack away at small items because we fool ourselves into thinking they don’t count.
Don’t deny yourself snacks completely. Forbidden fruit is always the most tempting, so if you forbid yourself from snacking, chances are that you will focus on it more.
Don’t beat yourself up if you don’t stop snacking immediately or if you have the occasional slip up. Obviously if your “slip ups” are every 30 minutes, you should address them. But if it’s every few days, don’t worry.
My Birthday in Food!
Love this post. See below.
Scrolling back through the few days, I realized why I keep this blog. To keep myself accountable. “But it’s my birthday week and I lost 50 pounds this year?” I’m glad I have photographic evidence to remind me to only do this once a year!
The sweet Casey e-mailed me this morning and told me to “enjoy every indulgence imaginable!” Casey, I did not let you down!
I spent the day with my mom and was kidnapped back to NJ for the evening for dinner. (I wanted to have dinner with my parents but my dad had to work late, so NJ it was.) I went to the Sicilian Sun in Ho-Ho-Kus (yes, that’s a real town name) with my parents and two of my wonderful friends.
My dad and I started with spiedini di mozzarella, which is basically fancy mozzarella sticks or a fancy (breaded and fried) grilled cheese sandwich. It’s similar to another dish called mozzarella en carrozza. My dad and I always get it at our favorite restaurant, Portobello, which is also where I had my Sweet 16…11 years ago. Ah!
Then, I moved onto chicken parmigiana with some spaghetti on the side. (Note, we do not go to fancy Italian restaurants. They are nowhere near as fun, or as good, as the family-owned hole-in-the-wall kind of places.)
(I ate about half of it and left the rest. I was going back and forth with myself about whether I should bring it home, but once was enough for me!)
To be honest, “real” pasta is no longer as good to me as whole wheat pasta. I could taste the empty calories and realized I used to keep eating to get that satisfaction that never came. With white pasta, I’d go from not-yet-satisfied to wanting to burst in 2.5 seconds.
Yum ice cream cake! This? Worth. Every. Bite. But I did make my mom throw out the leftovers afterwards.
There you have it. I’m not perfect, but I”m going to get back to my healthy eating tomorrow and my healthy drinking habits…Saturday. I’m going out for dinner (sushi) with friends tomorrow night and then meeting people out for drinks afterwards.
THANK YOU EVERYONE FOR THE SWEET BIRTHDAY WISHES! XOXO
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