Evening snacks

[josyjose]

Hi there is there anyone that has a really good day with food. But then in the evening when watching tv. You end up snacking. I want to stop that. Any tips please

Intermittent fasting was my turning point. Needed to be really strong for the first two weeks then everything felt much easier.

OK thank-you.

I have a cut off point of 7.30. Brush my teeth, cup of fruit tea if I fancy something, find an activity to keep your hands busy, like a jigsaw or crochet, keep telling yourself that you are not hungry it's just habit that is telling you that you need a snack. It's hard to break the habit at first but worth it.

I plan ahead and save some calories.
In the evening I usually have a bowl of berries with soya yoghurt, granola and low cal caramel sauce. Also a small packet of crisps.

I am an evening snacker too. I usually save some calories for:

An apple (with or without peanut butter depending how many calories I have left).

Rice cakes and Lightest Philadelphia (ideally lentil cakes, but harder to get).

A hard boiled egg which I dip into a pinch of salt and garam masala.

A banana.

I love a bowl of frozen fruit - cherries are my favourite

If you like popcorn then that plain or salted is good or you can ask a little dusting of icing sugar / cinnamon etc for very little calories

I try not to but if I do I try to keep it to as low calorie as possible, so mini pickled gherkins, mini pickled onions, slice of Parma ham, baby plum tomatoes, grapes as some examples.
I also brush my teeth and use mouthwash early on before I sit on the sofa and this definitely helps, followed by a large glass of water so that I’m hydrated.
If I really want something sweet I have low calorie hot chocolate or Greek yogurt with honey.

Thanks everyone will give these a go

Evening snacker here.

I've started having a dessert after my evening meal - about 2 hours after when I start to feel peckish. My dessert consists of tinned fruit, greek yogurt and granola.

I still want crisps and chocolate and dry roasted peanuts but have concluded it's boredom (and maybe habit) and not actual hunger.

I also found that just not having anything snacky in the house really helps.

Plus, I do evening yoga (around 15 minutes - see username) which seems to keep me occupied and somehow breaks the peckish urge.

I just doing snack, it's much easier.

I have the same problem. I started having a (non-diet) hot chocolate soon after dinner. I find drinking warm milk so satisfying and soothing (and ever so slightly sickly) that I find it a bit easier to stop eating for the rest of the evening. Maybe it harks back to childhood bedtime somehow. It's obviously pretty calorific in itself but probably better than nibbling for an hour.

I try and go without but if I have to I have either:

a ‘picky’ plate with black olives, gherkins, a hard boiled egg, an apple etc

or if I’m desperate for something sweet I try to have some chocolate covered rice cakes.

Weetabix works wonders.

I have started to make overnight weetabix now with a toffee muller on and a tiny bit of biscoff drizzled over. It's not that I'm hungry. I think it's just a bad habit that I need to crack. I walked 8 miles today which I'm happy with.

Probably not helpful but I just have to take myself upstairs to bed early 😅🙈 either watch tv in bed, read a book, listen to podcast etc.. anything to keep me away from the fridge basically!