Evening snacks are evil!

At least when there's 300+ calories worth of them every evening.

Does it seem like you're munching seven different things between dinner and bed time? I do! Usually I manage to stay close to my calorie limits, but I do go over a bit too frequently for my tastes. And I've been catching myself saving up calories for these evening shenanigans, too. NOT GOOD.

So here's a neat little evening accountability thread for me and all you after dinner snackers who want to join in the fun. Here, you can commit to the screen things like

• your official eating cut-off time
• your *one* snack for the evening
• things you will do instead to keep busy
• etc. etc. etc.

WHO'S WITH ME???

OK, so my dinner was quite heavy today, and I haven't worked out. So my snack for tonight will be a nice hot cup of tea and one serving of baby carrots.

Great idea! I have the same problem. I just had 2 cream cheese muffins and am trying to make sure it ends there!

Wow. You are good. I really need this thread. I am so far from baby carrots right now.....I do have a problem with snacking in the evening. Seems like I'm looking for that one thing that will hit the spot, but like you, I usually stay relatively close to my limit, except for that time of the month, like NOW, when I can't find the off switch.
Okay, I'm in.

• My cutoff time will be 8:30
• Don't know yet what my 1 snack will be, I'll figure it out
• I will go to bed early and read, knit, or bead to keep busy,maybe even sleep!

Now, what will my snack be....?

I had a Special K bar. Normally I would have a bit more than that but I had a big dinner tonight. Done for the night!

My last snack is around 10p or so. But then I don't go to bed until well after midnight, so to not eat anything after 8 would make me insane.

Tonight it'll be a 1/2 cup of Starbucks low-fat mocha yogurt (120 cals).

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I dont struggle with this too much, but I have in the past.
I dont eat past 8.
If I do snack, it's almost always almonds. Good for you and they feel like it's a naughty treat. I like laughing cow cheese with some ww ritz crackers. Rice cakes are tasty.
If I get into that "eat everything I touch" moods, I brush my teeth. Or take a melatonin and go to bed early.

This is a place i have a really hard time with, the late night snacking is my worst habit! I'm in!
cut off 8:30
my 1 snack... hmmm... well I think I will have a 60 calorie dark chocolate sugar free pudding.

I have been trying to watch myself on this one too. Around 9:00 PM I usually feel like I "deserve" oreo cookies. Have been trying to talk myself out of that. I like the almond idea -- will limit myself to a few and see how it goes.

Eating later and going to bed early have made a big difference for me. I didn't set out to do either for the purpose of curbing snacking. I eat late-ish (to me) because it takes that long to come home and cook. I go to bed early because I get up early.

I get like this too!

I usually end up making a big bowl of air popped popcorn and a cup of tea. It's filling and keeps my hands busy without killing my calorie budget for the day .

Oh man, I totally have this problem! I have been trying to stick with an 8pm cut-off time for when the kitchen closes. After that I drink tea (with splenda and sometimes a splash of Lactaid). I drink lots and lots and lots of tea....

Darn it! You guys have me craving popcorn now!

I think tomorrow night might be a popcorn night.

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Sooo... yesterday evening went really well. I kept busy and ended up only drinking the tea because I didn't have *time* to eat the carrots.It's ridiculous how well accountability can work. Big difference to my usual snacking pattern at night: homemade frozen yogurt - then some dried fruit - then stealing some of husband's pistachios - then some frozen grapes - hey, can you get a glass of wine for me too? ... lalala...

Great to see so many determined chickies on this thread! See you tonight!