I just want to eat all the time!

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I was wondering if anyone had any ideas for healthy snacks?

I have high cholesterol and I'm meant to be eating healthily. Sadly working from home has made me put on over a stone in weight because I've been working from my kitchen.

Before the angry flamers jump on me, I've started doing couch-5k and I've stopped eating crisps and chocolate but I'm really stuck for ideas so any suggestions would be great.

I should add, I absolutely hate bananas

Have you tried the Fibre One bars? There's 3 types - popcorn, square bars and cake bars and they have loads of different flavours for 90 calories each. The popcorn one's and cake bars are in offer at ASDA at the moment.

try to stretch out the time before you have your first meal of the day as long as possible, and stretch it out longer each few days as long as you can. then have a high protein / high fat food (I like porridge with peanut butter as it keeps you full ages, or lunch of similar high fat / high protein) and you will keep much fuller longer. You'll really benefit from the longer fasting, but if you work up slowly say an extra hour at first, you won't much notice it. Black tea / black coffee helps to stave off the pangs. Maybe you could cut out breakfast completely.

Try snacks that take longer to eat, things like carrot sticks, slices of sweet peppers, orange wedges, pickled onions. That way you get to do the eating but without all the calories and fat.

I'm trying to change up my eating habits and lose weight (in the obese range) , carbs are a huge problem for me as is habitual eating, so making sure I have 'good' snacks around is essential.

I've also been roughly following the 16:8 model where you have an 8 hr window where you eat. I never really fancy breakfast so just have water in the morning then have lunch and I don't eat after 8pm.

Biltong might be good? Very chewy IIRC and fills you up like nobody's business.

Nuts and seeds. Fruit and veg. Air popped corn.

Iv found a weird love for alpro soya yougurt with coconut. Bit soya protein powder and some seeds/nuts/dried fruit added in. Yum and keeps full for ages.