stop snacking mindlessly

I have been doing quite well with this goal, until tonight that is. Oh, stress. But overall, I may be close to checking this off.

I have decided that celery is the best snack food EVER!!! Healthy, crunchy, low cal., amazingly delicious (except for those occasionally bitter bunches and that dried out non-organic (high pesticide residue on celery!) crap at school salad bar). If I’m going to snack, it might as well be on celery, but I will never want celery so incredibly badly enough that I will eat too much celery-only just enough. So, now I just need to make sure that I am well stocked with celery over other snackable things.

It really helps not to have snack food around…the only snack food in my dorm room is energy bars, which i have snacked on a couple of times, but not much…def an improvement!

After a frustrating conversation with my little brother (see “save the environment” entry) I feel like I should do this not only for my own health, but for the sake of the world (in a small way). I should in general not take more than I need, use more resources. I should only eat when I am hungry-when I really need to eat. I should not have bought that hummus today-I don’t need it, and I just had a snack, damn it.

I’ve been snacking healther—fruits and nuts, rather than granola/crackers w/ toppings/chips (yuck)/addictive things with too many calories that are acid forming. I still do not need to be eating at night, but I think this is better than before. Now, just overcome the snacking urge all together…

Now that I have actually written this down, I hope that I will make a better effort to actually reach this goal. I do eat pretty heathfully for most of the day, but when I get home from work (or while studying during the school year) and late at night, I just snack even though I’m not really hungry. I neeeed to stop!