<p>Late night snacking is difficult. The dumb thing I do to keep from snacking? Immediately after dinner, brush and floss my teeth. It takes forever to do it right and I don’t want to repeat it so I don’t eat afterwards. Stupid, but it seems to work. </p>
<p>LOL, sabaray-- late night snacking is unfortunately not difficult at all ;)</p>
<p>Sometimes I think I’m on the peanut butter diet. I don’t snack during the day, but if I’m up for a few hours after dinner I often get hungry. I find a tsp of peanut butter is all it takes. I couple it with one set of kettle ball swings, goblet squats and pushups. </p>
<p>If you have a spare 6 mins, here’s a good video that talks about how “low-fat” has actually made us more fat, and how focusing on whole foods - even if they have fat - is the healthier alternative:
<a href=“What America Eats: Inside the Changing American Diet | Time”>http://time.com/2861385/american-diet/</a>
Also a good visual of how/why carbs - even carbs found in things like corn - turn to sugar and in turn, make you MORE hungry!</p>
<p>And I just bought 2 ears of corn… :(</p>
<p>An ear of corn is ok! (or I often just do a 1/2 ear) Just realize that you can get better bang for your nutrition buck from other vegetables. Corn, potatoes and peas are common carb full vegetables. Vegetables that have more water content have less carbs (peppers, radish, cucumbers, etc.)</p>
<p>Okay, okay jym…late night snacking is a hard habit to break! I need to drink more coffee before I post, I guess. </p>
<p>I eat corn. I love corn on the cob. Yes, it is a higher sugar vegetable. But I’m going to eat it. Not every night, but while it’s in season, I’m definitely going to! IMHO, fresh unprocessed foods in season are the key to a healthy diet. Completely denying myself foods that I enjoy inevitably leads to a binge of some type. </p>
<p>It’s Friday! Almost the weekend! I’m looking forward to a trip to the running store tomorrow to buy some new shoes and a nice run to try them out. I think I’m also going to make crab cakes and enjoy some nice white burgundy I’ve been holding in reserve for a bit. A planned splurge. We’ll see if I regret it on Monday! </p>
<p>I’ll take a crab cake please!!! You can drink my wine. 
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<p>Agreed on the idea to have fresh unprocessed foods in season. But (as my husband wants to do), it’s a problem when that one ear of corn becomes three ears at a meal that you have three times a week because it’s so good and then you pair it up with a side of potatoes! </p>
<p>I love corn on the cob and popcorn … I would think the fiber does something good with both to counter the sugar effect? At least that’s what I tell myself. </p>
<p>I live live LOVE summer fruits, and eat lots of fruits and veggies overall. And I have gotten into the smoothie thing big time. I like spinach in the smoothie but kale is too bitter, though adding fresh mint from the garden helps.
In the winter I drink coffee at night ( doesn’t keep me up) but in the summer I snack. Gotta stop that. </p>
<p>Harvested 8 more cherry tomatoes from the deck pots today. </p>
<p>Pile up on the veggies, eat the summer fruits moderately! Love plucking a tomato right from the plant and eating it sun warmed! </p>
<p>jym, Would it work for you to have an iced coffee in the evening? I like it with soy milk and a little stevia.</p>
<p>Just back from the farmers’ market where I probably bought more greens than I can eat in a week-- five kinds of lettuce and two bags of spinach. (I love a spinach salad with a few local strawberries, red onions and chooped pecans. Annie’s Lite Poppy Seed dressing makes it quick and easy.) I paid a king’s ransom for a couple half pints of mixed cherry tomatoes. It’ll be weeks before I have any to pick.</p>
<p>I could do iced tea. Thanks for the suggestion. </p>
<p>If I get hungry I (often) have a cup of coffee and then decide if I am still hungry. If I am, I eat something. :)</p>
<p>Sorry to jump in to the convo so late, but I’ve gotten back on Weight Watchers since I got home from grad school. I was doing very well the summer before I started, but found life too crazy (and eating in the cafeteria every day made it too difficult) to be tracking points. When I came home I found I had gained quite a bit of weight over the last two years…YIKES. So I’m back on track now.</p>
<p>The hardest thing for me has been eating breakfast in general as well as late-night snacking. I’ve never been a big breakfast person; when I was in high school I had zero period choir and had to leave the house by 6:30AM to get to school on time, so breakfast was often skipped, and it just stuck through grad school. It’s also difficult now that I’m living the unemployed life (hopefully not for too much longer!) to force myself to get up early enough to eat breakfast. I have some good K-Cups now, which helps. Something to look forward to :)</p>
<p>Now that I’ve had some interviews in the early morning, I’m back to a more reasonable sleep schedule, which has also helped the late-night snacking. Less likely to eat late if I’m not up until 2AM.</p>
<p>So far I’ve lost about 10 pounds in the last 3 to 4 weeks. Hoping to keep the streak going :)</p>
<p>Good for you, HGFM! I once heard someone say that if you’re not hungry at breakfast you’re eating too much the night before. It’s hard to go to bed hungry but when I stop and think about it I often realize I’m really tired, not hungry.</p>
<p>Good luck with the job hunting. My son had something of a gap year after he graduated but has been gainfully employed for a year now. </p>
<p>It is nice to see more people joining us on our journey.
Sabaray- enjoy your new shoes! I love the smell when you open a new shoe box.
I have never been much of a late night eater. My H sometimes makes popcorn and I will eat it if it is there but I won’t make it myself. I have been enjoying several dark chocolate almonds from Trader Joes or one of their 100 calorie dark chocolate bars each night. I also will make mint tea if I am feeling hungry at night.
Abasket- I recently read something about corn turning to sugar in our bodies.
My solution for corn on the cob is to just buy 1 or 2 ears from the Farmers market. Corn fresh on the cob worth the occasional splurge. Canned corn not worth the calories. Corn tortillas I figure are better then flour and in my world worth the splurge once a week.
Friday and Sunday are my cheat days. I will usually have a half a sandwich at lunch and a 1/2 order of fries from a local cafe. They are fresh hand cut fries and worth eating once a week. I will also usually have corn tortillas at least one meal.
Tonight I made a delicious mango salsa. Just 1 mango with lime juice, cilantro, red onion, any color pepper and a few dashes of cayenne pepper. I let it sit for about 30 minutes at room temp. It makes chicken breasts taste gourmet. Tonight I served the chicken cut up on oven warmed corn tortillas with the salsa and a bit of Mexican cheese. If it was midweek I would skip the tortilla.
Still waiting for my tomatoes to ripen. </p>
<p>That mango salsa sounds delicious. I bought Trader Joe’s prepped mango this week; they were pricey but very convenient. </p>
<p>Last night I fixed one of my favorite salads-- a Cobb. Chicken breast (grilled last weekend, frozen and thawed), hard boiled egg, avocado, tomato, bleu cheese and a little good bacon arranged over a huge pile of greens with red wine vinaigrette. It is really quick to put together with lots of protiien and veggies and low carb. I keep some of Wegman’s nice rolls in the freezer to add to DH’s plate. </p>
<p>Mom60,that mango salsa sounds delicious!!</p>
<p>It’s wonderful that this thread revived so nicely - for a while there, I was afraid it had faded away.</p>
<p>This is Flag Day and therefore my third anniversary on Weight Loss for Dummies. I have slipped quite a bit in the last year (up 12 pounds, only 5 of which can be attributed to my broken ankle. The rest I blame on the terrible winter and my waning self control). But overall I am still down 32.6 pounds and much healthier than when I started three years ago. I’m also 14 pounds less than I was 10 years ago. So this thread has literally changed me for the better and hopefully for the good. (Credit the Tony ceremony for putting that song back in my head.)</p>
<p>I’m kind of far from some of my goals of my first year of WLFD, but at least I know it’s possible. This was my new lifestyle, most of which I’m still doing:
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