It is easy to keep to your diet and sabotage all with unhealthy snacking. I know from experience. Most of my meals are spot on healthy and within my caloric limits, but I too on occasion succumb to unhealthy snacking temptations. This is where most people fail, myself included.
My first tip to avoid unhealthy snacking is to remove anything you don’t want to eat from your pantry and office space. Only keep within reach those things that you are not ashamed to eat. For me these are apples, nuts and crunchy veggies. Pre-prepared snacks to take with you can help as well, with a promise to yourself that this is all you’ll indulge in.
When temptation strikes , simply get up and walk somewhere for five minutes. It usually takes that long for the urge to pass. Water or coffee can also keep hunger at bay. The important thing to realize is that snacking is usually a formed habit, like smoking, and removing triggers that can cause snacking can help. Whether it’s tv, a sports game, boredom or habit, you need to create new patterns of behavior to change your ways. Simply getting up and walking around is one way that helps me.
More importantly, when you fail, don’t be harsh on yourself. Forgive yourself and start anew. When I snack on a bag of chips (yes, it happens), I simply tell myself that was stupid and plan for the rest of the day, or skip a meal. Once you’ve implemented Intermittent Fasting into your program, it gets easier. Not only does IF teach you how to recognize true hunger from habit, but is also a tool to help counteract bad choices you cannot take back.
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