stop snacking mindlessly

before last year i used to eat masses and masses of snacks.When i was younger i was neva ova weight, because i was very active, but as i finished school and started to slow my activity down it started to creap up on me and my weight slowly increased. When i stoped snacking my weight went down and now i feel beta than i have eva done before!!!

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.

Keeping myself busy is a good way to kill the snacking urges. Snacking is instant gratification in it’s simplest form and I constantly remind myself that I will appreciate not gorging myself when I’m 30 and my metabolism has stopped completely.

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!