Is snacking sabotaging your healthy lifestyle and goals

• Mindless snacking
• Boredom
• Mental blocks
• Cravings
• Emotions and emotional eating – both happy and sad
• Peer pressure
• Habit – movie night
• Not being prepared, ease and laziness
• End of the week just wanting to chill
• Just wanting a different taste or texture of something sweet/savoury

All the above are just some of the reasons we do it.

First and foremost, we need to ask ourselves “ARE WE HUNGRY?”

To help decipher the difference here’s are few strategies to try:

• Eat protein – ask yourself can we eat chicken and broccoli
• Drinking water
• Go for a walk
• Mentality breathing – breath in strength – breath out weakness
• Think about your goals – your WHY
• Brush your teeth
• Don’t buy in to it
• Stock up on healthy foods – berries, carrot sticks etc
• Put the biscuits/crisps/choc out of reach so it’s a chore to get it
• Ask yourself how will that food serve me – eat to fuel your body
• Think about that feel good factor being healthy gives us, skin sleep etc are all improved
• Log your foods in my fitness pal or in a journal etc and take onus for them