Help me stop noshing the chocolate!

[GimmeChocolateNow]

My user name says it all really! I'm on a low dose of steroids following radiotherapy and issues around a swollen eye. I'm am being weaned off them over 3 weeks (been on them for 3) but I can't stop EATING! Hourly munchies. Nuts, breakfast bars, bagels, graze boxes, breakfast, lunch, dinner, chocolate, bananas, crisps etc etc.

I know I should have more willpower but I'm very fatigued (radiotherapy was for a brain tumour that has "significant regrowth".) That doesn't worry me at all. The constant eating does! I'm going to need a whole new work wardrobe. I've gone up at least one dress size and I look and feel podgy, soggy, lumpy and fat (to me, anyway!).

I know I need to exercise and eat properly but until I finish the steroids, I don't imagine the munching will stop.

So to my plea! What can I munch on that isn't going to add more weight yet is still filling. I know I could do celery, cucumber, carrots with hummus and tzatziki (sp?) but that just doesn't have the appeal of the others!

Please give my healthier easy snack suggestions that are going to minimise future weight gain, are healthy on my wallet and are tempting! I'm willing to buy or try to make!

Go!

I'm on steroids too, 10mg a day currently. I was warned they make you hungry, and they do! I snack on Brazil nuts, biscuits and toast. There's a bowl of apples on the dining room table as well, ignored.

Prednisone will do that. I like cold baby carrots for the crunch. Also, if I have something sweet and crave more I brush my teeth and that seems to interrupt the urge.

Poor you, could you make a good plan at the start of the day and try to stick to it with three nutritious meals and 3 whole food snacks?
Or you could do the whole mumsnet low carb thing.
Be kind to yourself this will all just be a memory this time next year 💐

Noshing has a completely different meaning to me, so er, I hope the chocolate’s having a good time.

I have Addison’s disease for which the treatment is life long daily steroids - all the forums are full of similar posts to yours and people trying to lose weight! Steroids are amazing things but they do change the way your body metabolises sugar and carbs and this is what causes bloating and weight gain- and carb / sugar cravings!

I have tried replacing things with protein - so chunks of cooked chicken, ham, egg, etc. Keeps you fuller for longer so you don’t feel like snacking non stop. Difficult though!

I was on steroids after I had my youngest and I just was hungry constantly. If I didn't eat every hour I would feel like I was going to pass out, I would shake and feel dizzy. I had to drink full sugar drinks and lucozade just to stop the dizziness. I don't know how much weight I put on if any because I was obviously still fat after being pregnant. I just decided to ride it out until I came off them. Then dealt with the aftermath.

If you're planning on coming off them soon, then I'd just live with it for now and deal with losing weight once you're off them. It's definitely easier to do that than trying to eat less on them!!

Trust a man to bring the tone down, Simon

Thanks for the support ladies (do I even ask what else noshing can mean?!). I'm grazing on a lot of fruit and nut as well as graze boxes. I've hidden the chocolate out of sight too. I get the dizziness too - lightheaded-ness. It sucks! (I'm veering back to noshing, aren't I!)

@GimmeChocolateNow Where I am Noshing is a blow job

I just came here to hear the cracks about noshing

A word all the more amusing to me as I have only heard my father use it but obviously in OPs context