Mar092010
Dealing with Nighttime Snacking
Filed under Day to Day by kristen at 8:45 pm on Mar 09 2010
Ever since I started my journey to lose weight & become more healthy, I have always “budgeted points” for an evening snack. More times than not, the snack is/was ice cream. Chris, my super husband, has ice cream many evenings. (This is the guy that started running, gave up second helpings & regular Coke and lost over 50 pounds and has kept it off for over 5 years.) I knew when I first started that I would feel too deprived and like I was on a diet if I didn’t allow myself that option. It worked for me all of these months.
I wouldn’t always use the budgeted points. I also would use my activity points to set off the nighttime snacking. I do want to clarify when I say “nighttime snacking” and “budgeting points” I am only talking about using one or two points for a snack.
Lately those few points that I have budgeted hasn’t seem to satisfy me. There is no reason except this desire to eat just for the enjoyment of the food. :::sigh::: I have worked hard this week to stop that tendency. Tonight I am not blowing the awesome run that I got in this morning. Was it an easy run? Nope. I hated the entire first mile but I didn’t quit. I kept reminding myself that I would have my treadmill back soon and I would be able to be more consistent.
So no snacking for me tonight. How do you deal with nighttime snacking? Do you budget points? Not even allow yourself a snack even if you are truly hungry? Ready to hear your tips.
1 Cindyon 10 Mar 2010 at 6:48 am
No real tips here, other than I do WW chocolate ice cream cones and they seem to do the trick! I get my 2 points worth, get some dairy in my body, and life is good! I also get Fruit bars from Target (the Caribbean ones with chunks of pineapple, coconut, strawberry…OHHH my!!!) are also 2 points, and after a work out, that’s part of my cool down. If it’s crunchy, I LOVE their pizza flavored pretzel thins….OH MY! I could eat a box of them at a sitting! (Can you tell that portion control has been an issue in the past???)
I don’t think there’s any problem with allowing yourself some extra points…it’s all about satisfying the urge and not needing to eat everything in sight! I basically snack all day long so I don’t get the “hungries” and need to eat everything I can put my hands on. My breakfast starts at 7:15 but doesn’t end until about 9 when I have my banana…
Maybe just enjoy and have some water or hot tea??? Of course, then you’re up 3 times in the middle of the night to take care of OTHER things, but hey, at least you wouldn’t be hungry! LOL!
HTH!
Cindy
2 Brandee Richardsonon 10 Mar 2010 at 8:12 am
Try some diet swiss miss hot chocolate. It’s only 25 calories.
3 Kristenon 14 Mar 2010 at 1:43 pm
Thanks ladies for the suggestions. The WW ice cream & pizza pretzels are a stable in my house along with the WW 1 pt mini bars. I also love the diet Swiss Miss with a shot of fat free RediWhip on top.
Thanks for the feedback!