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Don't go to bed hungry.
What do you have for breakfast? If it is fairly low in protein, and high in carbs, along with being hungry before bedtime, will make you want more snacks throughout the day.
Eating snacks at work is often not because you're hungry, but because of habit or comfort eating due to stress. You should try finding some methods to minimise or change these habits, as weight loss is mostly about day to day consistency.
Ideally you shouldn't feel overly hungry, though if you're used to regular snacks, then you might feel yourself feeling cravings around when you would normally snack due to having less sugar in your system than you would otherwise.
A couple of more specific tips that might help:
-Drinking more water is usually a good thing, and have a glass of water instead of reaching for a snack. It might actually be what your body is wanting.
-Sugar free soft drinks is your friend, diet coke, sugar free squash. Doesn't add calories, and has no nutritional value, but might take the edge off your sweet tooth.
-Don't be worried if you do have a snack here and there, but aim to reduce as much as possible over the course of a week. Snack habits don't disappear in a day.
- If you know you can't avoid snacking, plan for it and make sure you have reasonable choices, rather than going to the shop and chowing down a full roll of chocolate hob nobs.
-I've found that a decent protein filled breakfast keeps me satiated until lunch time. A larger breakfast, but no snacks will usually end up as less calories than a small breakfast and lots of snacks.
- If you know you can't avoid snacking, plan for it and make sure you have reasonable choices, rather than going to the shop and chowing down a full roll of chocolate hob nobs.
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Measured my waistline a few weeks back and got a bit of a shock. I've since tried to cut out weekday drinking and snacking. My diet plan is not complex and is basically "go to bed hungry".
This worked well for a bit and I remembered that I quite liked feeling peckish in the run up to meals, but I'm struggling with this more now the summer holidays are over and I'm back in work. I find it really difficult to lay off the snacks, especially sweet things, during the day. I can't work out if this is because (i) I'm genuinely more hungry from using my brain more, (ii) I'm annoyed by work and that leads to comfort-eating or (iii) I'm suffering from some sort of decision-fatigue whereby making decisions all day for work leaves me with little mental resilience to make sensible choices about food.
Any tips?