8 Weight Loss Tips for Chronic Snackers

8 Weight Loss Tips for chronic snackers helps people who gain weight from snack grazing. Do you eat what’s out and available? Are you addicted to the 4 C’s: candy, cookies, cake, and ice cream? Or maybe salty snacks are your downfall? Because these foods are so addicting, once you start it’s hard to stop. If you tell yourself you won’t eat these foods anymore, then you end up having a war going on inside yourself. And the sugar/salt usually wins the battle and weight loss is the loser.

If this applies to you, here are some things you can do…

• Keep foods out of reach, like in the back of the refrigerator shelf or the top shelf of a cabinet.
• Buy snacks for your family that you don’t like
• Establish a policy that you will only eat the snack after you sit down and breath for five minutes
• Have less harmful snacks available, like cut up raw veggies
• Eat only at the table and do nothing else but eat
• Chew each bite 32 times
• Never eat out of a package. Always put the food in a bowl or on a plate
• Package snacks in individual zip lock bags so you have to pause before you go for more than one serving

Start by picking one intervention and see how it works. It may take time to get in the habit, so give yourself more than a day or two to try it out. If it works, keep doing it. If it doesn’t work,  pick another intervention to try. Once you are stabilized with one good intervention, you can always add another so your healthy habit of skipping the snacks is reinforced and weight loss happens naturally.

Now, plan what you will do with the time you used to spend snacking. Here’s your opportunity to: read more books, work on your favorite hobby, get a walk in, or do something else pleasurable and non-food oriented.

For more tips on ending the snacking habit:

Check out the HALT Method.

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