Stop buying them. If they aren’t in your house you cnt eat them.
Retro-Figs on
Definitely do not keep that much candy on hand. If you don’t have it in the house, it won’t tempt you.
buoyreader on
How much fiber are you getting? Focusing on fiber has helped me tremendously with binging
I-Am-Dull-AMA on
I don’t snack but I would if it were around. If we bake too much or have candy, we give it to the neighbors kids and they’re always so excited for it. Everyone wins.
meowpitbullmeow on
Buy healthier snacks. Eat meals instead of snacks.
Nitramite on
Usually seeing the calorie count in the app would stop me.
Of course, the main idea would be to swap with fruits or vegetables. I can eat a bunch of radishes and cauliflower with a minimal calorie hit yet feel more full due to the amount of food and fiber.. but of course it’s not as tasty.
If you like Pickles, those also have minimal calories as a snack.
I see you have diet Mountain dew and Coke. Continue with those, check out the Zero Sugar versions too. The Carbonation in Coke Zero usually helps satisfy my appetite. Drinking 2 Coke Zeros with 0 calories instead of 6 tootsie pops would be a 360 calorie improvement already.
Perhaps swapping the 3 pouches of Fruit snacks with one apple would help as well. One apple has 4.4g of fiber on average, which would help since I see you’re taking Fiber supplements.
It’s going to be a lot of personal control.. perhaps if you took out everything you have on this list and put it on a table in front of you, it would show how much snacks this is and you’d reconsider?
Good luck, hope you find something that works for you
Acrobatic-Aioli9768 on
I used to be like you. I had to start eating at least 30g of protein per meal. You also have to focus on the amount of fibre you’re getting per day. 30g+ of fibre will make food noise go away completely.
(unless you’re a woman about to start your period. That, I can’t help you with!)
And also make sure that all meals are balanced with protein, healthy fat and fibre.
r/volumeeating might help you. They have some cool recipes and it helps to add some fat to the meal so that you’re not just bloated but unsatisfied with your food.
Edit: also!! You might be eating for dopamine. If so, the things that help me are movement, getting a hobby and being creative. Go out for a walk and listen to music, feel the wind or sun on your skin, take some deep breaths. And then eventually your body will crave fresh air instead of sweets.
Rough-Support on
Don’t keep it in the house.
Also, when I feel the urge to snack I go for a walk, Even if it’s just 2 minutes around the block. I find it helps me take my mind off snacking.
aimeadorer on
I dont buy snacks or soda. And I’m too lazy/poor to go get them or doordash.
Fit_Professional1916 on
Water, fibre, protein, and not buying them.
unpleasantmomentum on
Don’t buy them.
Eat a more filling breakfast. Focus on fats, fiber, protein. Plan your morning snack and lunch so you know what and when you will eat next.
Drink more water.
Meal prep ahead of time to limit snacking. If you want a treat, meal plan for *one* of your treats.
luckisnothing on
Learn to be a little bit hungry and stop buying snacks. Learn healthier swaps. A little cocoa powder with some pbfit powder on a banana is surprisingly satisfying and gets you a good bit of fiber.
aquamarinemoon on
I mean I think you need to re evaluate how filling your meals are, first of all. I am doing the same and trying to get extra veggies in.
I used to snack a ton before calorie counting but I have gotten better. Not perfect but better. I have a few Little Sweet Treats in my apartment but not a lot. And I’ve gotten better at saying ok, I can have a sweet treat with my afternoon coffee (it’s an instant latte that’s like 70 calories and I love it lol) but that’s really it. I have mini biscottis from Trader Joe’s and I will have one. I also just got low sugar dark chocolate from Costco and it will be the same rule. But it just comes down to limiting what you have on hand and sticking to a strict schedule.
Another thing I like to do is plan all my food for the day in the morning. I’m neurodivergent (adhd and I suspect autism) and I like to follow rules so it helps me more than it might help others but it might be worth a try. This also becomes much easier once the number in the scale starts dropping. I feel like I want to defend those lower numbers with my life lol!
seeing_true on
either don’t buy snacks, or if you really have to, buy only healthy ones. cheeses, baby carrots, nuts. wean your way into nothing. set rules and stick with them. I have this problem too so I only allow myself no-sugar and no-carb snacks, ie cheese or deli meat.
missuninvited on
I’m prediabetic, so I cut out as much simple carb/added sugar stuff as possible (fruit and veg are “free,” idc about fruit sugar tbh), and I noticed that as soon as I got over the first week or two of massive cravings, I stopped wanting sweets. You might be stuck in a similar cycle of sugar making you crave sugar. It really does get addictive.
Would you still snack so much if your available snacks were things like lean lunch meat, crudite/raw veg, cut fruit, etc.? I’d suggest getting a handle on your home supply of candy snacks (in other words: stop keeping them around lol) and seeing if you still snack or graze just as much when you only have more nutrient-dense and lower-calorie options available. There’s nothing wrong with a snack. Heck, you can still graze for the afternoon instead of eating a big lunch, if that’s what you prefer. Just gotta set yourself up for success.
BootyMcSqueak on
You’re eating so many snacks because those are all empty calories. They’re not designed to keep you full and nourish your body. It’s all junk. I guarantee that if you want something sweet, eat some fruit. Hell, eat 2 apples and see how much fuller for longer you’ll feel.
northsouthern on
Fully restricting doesn’t work for me, so instead I get one sweet treat and one salty treat each time i go to the grocery store (twice a month usually). It helps me just to know that I’ve got it in the house and can have it if I want it. More often than not, I have just one or two pieces, and if I start craving more (or wanting to eat the whole bag), that’s a flag that I need to take a look at what else I’m eating or if my mood has changed in a way that I’m trying to fix by snacking.
Apprehensive-Age2135 on
Treat the root cause, whether that is boredom, binge eating disorder, food addiction, emotional eating, etc.
skumbelina on
I remove the snacks from my house and I don’t purchase them again. Alternatively, opt for healthier snacks. Try pineapple with tajin, babybel cheeses, etc.
cleanbookcovers on
You need to eat bigger meals, more fiber, protein, carbs. I was a HUGE snacker because I didn’t want such heavy meals, but the heavier meals have helped me reduced snacking a lot.
Mysterious-Fig-2280 on
I think you might be in some sort of sugar craving/dependency cycle since you are going for candy and soda. once you get the dopamine hit from the sugar you want more more more. and since candy is small it doesn’t seem like you’re having that much until it all adds up. Try having a planned high fiber high protein snack between breakfast and lunch (yogurt with some chia seeds, cottage cheese and cucumbers with chia or flax, hummus and vegetables, toast with nut butter) and see if that helps the cravings. Sugar is an addiction and if you reduce the consumption you might feel icky for a few days but you’ll be so much better off on the other side. Try to limit to 25g added sugar per day – that way you can still have a treat but you’ll be mindful of the amount.
seethembreak on
This isn’t just snacking. This is sugar addiction. You need to break that in whatever way works for you. Some people will say to replace added sugars with fruit and yogurt. That didn’t work for me because I didn’t want fruit and yogurt when I wanted something sweet. Others will say eat more fiber and protein so you will be fuller. Well, I wasn’t eating sugar because I was hungry. Carbs and fat work better for me. A whole wheat English muffin with peanut butter has some natural sweetness to it imo.
What worked best was simply not eating sugar. Don’t buy it. Don’t have in the house. After a few days you will crave it less. You’ll have to find what works for you.
Cappyc00l on
Sugar can be more addicting than cocaine. You need to detox from candy. It’ll take 1-2 weeks, but your body tastebuds will recalibrate and you won’t have the cravings.
kyuuei on
1. Don’t buy it.
2. If I need to reach for more than one snack it is time to eat a real meal.
skadi_shev on
I wonder if you’re not getting enough protein, fiber, and healthy fat with your meals. You need to eat something substantial and filling in the morning to prevent snacking later on. Protein shakes (just protein powder + milk of choice or water) can help if you need the protein boost.
Also, up your fiber intake and you’ll likely get less sugar cravings and feel more full.
Also what everyone else said, just don’t buy all the candy. If you feel like snacking, eat something with a little more substance so you don’t have to eat 10 of it to feel satisfied
That_Question_6427 on
One of my kids has adhd and is *constantly* dopamine seeking. She snacks just like this… When your current stash of candy and soda is gone, I would not repurchase. You could try switching out the soda for sparkling water and switching the snacks for versions with less added sugar and more protein and fiber. I highly recommend Built Puff bars, which taste like candy but they’re only ~140 calories and have 17g of protein. You could do a flavored Greek yogurt or an apple/ small banana with peanut butter (we like No Sugar Added Skippy). Do you like salty snacks at all? You could try string cheese, deli turkey, a hard boiled egg with seasonings of your choice. If you really like the rice cakes, I’d get plain ones and add a little peanut butter and a sprinkle of chia seeds.
rub-a-dub-dubstep on
Can definitely relate, and have heard “just don’t buy them” or “swap them for fruit or carrots” a million times before. For someone sugar-addicted (I definitely was!), that just isn’t realistic and sounds like torture. I can see with the diet sodas that you’re trying, and good on you for tracking! The artificial sugars might be making things worse for you, though.
What worked for me was keeping things in the house that TASTED indulgent but didn’t wreck my goals. Mio water flavorings helped me a ton for drinks. They come in a ton of flavors and don’t have that Splenda taste I hate from diet stuff. Their sweet tea flavor is by far my favorite, but they have ones like strawberry watermelon and cherry blackberry, too. I’ve bought sparkling water and added some squirts of those and they tasted awesome. (Not an ad lol)
For sugary snacks, I’d personally go to a supermarket and just spend a good hour checking labels up and down aisles to see what you CAN live with. My sweet spot was chocolate protein pudding–really low in sugar and some brands genuinely taste good and keep me full.
Not everything HAS to be “healthy.” Chocolate mousse cups aren’t healthy, but they feel so indulgent that I don’t need more after. There’s a caramel soy pudding that’s super thick and creamy and I buy it every time now. Also, Babybel mini cheese wheels are filling and thick enough that I only want one or two between meals.
Best of luck!!
WingsOfBuffalo on
This is in a day?
somethingwholesomer on
It looks like a sugar detox would be helpful. Super fucking hard but worth it
Dikkelul27 on
for example, you could limit yourself to 2x miniature peanutbutter cups (86 cal), a caramel rice cake (100 cal) and 2 glasses of the diet mtn dew (20cal). that’s 206 calories that includes a 10AM snack, 4PM snack and 2 drinks.
The 1300 remaining calories can be put towards nutritious and great filling food, you can plan 2 high quality meals and maybe an extra fruit snack like apple slices with a small amount of peanut butter
bethskw on
Eat a meal. Seriously. You should spend most of your day either full from a meal or saying “the next meal isn’t so far away, I can wait.”
Eating too-small meals (or skipping meals) is the main reason people snack so much. You may need to increase your total planned calories for the day (more than 1500 is fine!) and you’ll be more successful in the long run than eating tiny meals and snacking all day.
avonlea_dreams on
For the amount of cals you ate for 6 tootsie pops, yesterday I ate a pita with tuna and mayo, raisins, apples, spinach and pickles and a cup of cherries. You need some protein , fiber and volume so you feel full! ❤️❤️
AdorableLizardFace on
That’s a year’s worth of empty hyper processed carbs for me! Switch to fruits that you enjoy as a first step. Since you seem to need convenience foods, I suspect that fresh fruits won’t work for you most of the time. If there are any dried fruits you enjoy, read the labels to avoid any added sugar, try raisins, mangoes, apricots, pineapple, apples and others available at most supermarkets. Freeze dried fruit costs more, but is super satisfying for its crunch and candy-like experience in the mouth. Try keeping miniature, seedless, easy peeling tangerines at home in a bowl in front of the television and on your desk.
joshuagarr on
That’s not snacking. That’s being addicted to sugar.
When I struggle with sugar it helps to avoid it until later in the day. Once ‘the seal is broken’ then I just want more sugar all day long, so if I start with something sweet in the morning the whole day is ruined.
Don’t try to completely eliminate added sugar from your diet. Doing so is almost guaranteed to result in binging. Work on delaying and reducing your sugar intake. Try skipping a whole day once a week for a while.
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Stop buying them. If they aren’t in your house you cnt eat them.
Definitely do not keep that much candy on hand. If you don’t have it in the house, it won’t tempt you.
How much fiber are you getting? Focusing on fiber has helped me tremendously with binging
I don’t snack but I would if it were around. If we bake too much or have candy, we give it to the neighbors kids and they’re always so excited for it. Everyone wins.
Buy healthier snacks. Eat meals instead of snacks.
Usually seeing the calorie count in the app would stop me.
Of course, the main idea would be to swap with fruits or vegetables. I can eat a bunch of radishes and cauliflower with a minimal calorie hit yet feel more full due to the amount of food and fiber.. but of course it’s not as tasty.
If you like Pickles, those also have minimal calories as a snack.
I see you have diet Mountain dew and Coke. Continue with those, check out the Zero Sugar versions too. The Carbonation in Coke Zero usually helps satisfy my appetite. Drinking 2 Coke Zeros with 0 calories instead of 6 tootsie pops would be a 360 calorie improvement already.
Perhaps swapping the 3 pouches of Fruit snacks with one apple would help as well. One apple has 4.4g of fiber on average, which would help since I see you’re taking Fiber supplements.
It’s going to be a lot of personal control.. perhaps if you took out everything you have on this list and put it on a table in front of you, it would show how much snacks this is and you’d reconsider?
Good luck, hope you find something that works for you
I used to be like you. I had to start eating at least 30g of protein per meal. You also have to focus on the amount of fibre you’re getting per day. 30g+ of fibre will make food noise go away completely.
(unless you’re a woman about to start your period. That, I can’t help you with!)
And also make sure that all meals are balanced with protein, healthy fat and fibre.
r/volumeeating might help you. They have some cool recipes and it helps to add some fat to the meal so that you’re not just bloated but unsatisfied with your food.
Edit: also!! You might be eating for dopamine. If so, the things that help me are movement, getting a hobby and being creative. Go out for a walk and listen to music, feel the wind or sun on your skin, take some deep breaths. And then eventually your body will crave fresh air instead of sweets.
Don’t keep it in the house.
Also, when I feel the urge to snack I go for a walk, Even if it’s just 2 minutes around the block. I find it helps me take my mind off snacking.
I dont buy snacks or soda. And I’m too lazy/poor to go get them or doordash.
Water, fibre, protein, and not buying them.
Don’t buy them.
Eat a more filling breakfast. Focus on fats, fiber, protein. Plan your morning snack and lunch so you know what and when you will eat next.
Drink more water.
Meal prep ahead of time to limit snacking. If you want a treat, meal plan for *one* of your treats.
Learn to be a little bit hungry and stop buying snacks. Learn healthier swaps. A little cocoa powder with some pbfit powder on a banana is surprisingly satisfying and gets you a good bit of fiber.
I mean I think you need to re evaluate how filling your meals are, first of all. I am doing the same and trying to get extra veggies in.
I used to snack a ton before calorie counting but I have gotten better. Not perfect but better. I have a few Little Sweet Treats in my apartment but not a lot. And I’ve gotten better at saying ok, I can have a sweet treat with my afternoon coffee (it’s an instant latte that’s like 70 calories and I love it lol) but that’s really it. I have mini biscottis from Trader Joe’s and I will have one. I also just got low sugar dark chocolate from Costco and it will be the same rule. But it just comes down to limiting what you have on hand and sticking to a strict schedule.
Another thing I like to do is plan all my food for the day in the morning. I’m neurodivergent (adhd and I suspect autism) and I like to follow rules so it helps me more than it might help others but it might be worth a try. This also becomes much easier once the number in the scale starts dropping. I feel like I want to defend those lower numbers with my life lol!
either don’t buy snacks, or if you really have to, buy only healthy ones. cheeses, baby carrots, nuts. wean your way into nothing. set rules and stick with them. I have this problem too so I only allow myself no-sugar and no-carb snacks, ie cheese or deli meat.
I’m prediabetic, so I cut out as much simple carb/added sugar stuff as possible (fruit and veg are “free,” idc about fruit sugar tbh), and I noticed that as soon as I got over the first week or two of massive cravings, I stopped wanting sweets. You might be stuck in a similar cycle of sugar making you crave sugar. It really does get addictive.
Would you still snack so much if your available snacks were things like lean lunch meat, crudite/raw veg, cut fruit, etc.? I’d suggest getting a handle on your home supply of candy snacks (in other words: stop keeping them around lol) and seeing if you still snack or graze just as much when you only have more nutrient-dense and lower-calorie options available. There’s nothing wrong with a snack. Heck, you can still graze for the afternoon instead of eating a big lunch, if that’s what you prefer. Just gotta set yourself up for success.
You’re eating so many snacks because those are all empty calories. They’re not designed to keep you full and nourish your body. It’s all junk. I guarantee that if you want something sweet, eat some fruit. Hell, eat 2 apples and see how much fuller for longer you’ll feel.
Fully restricting doesn’t work for me, so instead I get one sweet treat and one salty treat each time i go to the grocery store (twice a month usually). It helps me just to know that I’ve got it in the house and can have it if I want it. More often than not, I have just one or two pieces, and if I start craving more (or wanting to eat the whole bag), that’s a flag that I need to take a look at what else I’m eating or if my mood has changed in a way that I’m trying to fix by snacking.
Treat the root cause, whether that is boredom, binge eating disorder, food addiction, emotional eating, etc.
I remove the snacks from my house and I don’t purchase them again. Alternatively, opt for healthier snacks. Try pineapple with tajin, babybel cheeses, etc.
You need to eat bigger meals, more fiber, protein, carbs. I was a HUGE snacker because I didn’t want such heavy meals, but the heavier meals have helped me reduced snacking a lot.
I think you might be in some sort of sugar craving/dependency cycle since you are going for candy and soda. once you get the dopamine hit from the sugar you want more more more. and since candy is small it doesn’t seem like you’re having that much until it all adds up. Try having a planned high fiber high protein snack between breakfast and lunch (yogurt with some chia seeds, cottage cheese and cucumbers with chia or flax, hummus and vegetables, toast with nut butter) and see if that helps the cravings. Sugar is an addiction and if you reduce the consumption you might feel icky for a few days but you’ll be so much better off on the other side. Try to limit to 25g added sugar per day – that way you can still have a treat but you’ll be mindful of the amount.
This isn’t just snacking. This is sugar addiction. You need to break that in whatever way works for you. Some people will say to replace added sugars with fruit and yogurt. That didn’t work for me because I didn’t want fruit and yogurt when I wanted something sweet. Others will say eat more fiber and protein so you will be fuller. Well, I wasn’t eating sugar because I was hungry. Carbs and fat work better for me. A whole wheat English muffin with peanut butter has some natural sweetness to it imo.
What worked best was simply not eating sugar. Don’t buy it. Don’t have in the house. After a few days you will crave it less. You’ll have to find what works for you.
Sugar can be more addicting than cocaine. You need to detox from candy. It’ll take 1-2 weeks, but your body tastebuds will recalibrate and you won’t have the cravings.
1. Don’t buy it.
2. If I need to reach for more than one snack it is time to eat a real meal.
I wonder if you’re not getting enough protein, fiber, and healthy fat with your meals. You need to eat something substantial and filling in the morning to prevent snacking later on. Protein shakes (just protein powder + milk of choice or water) can help if you need the protein boost.
Also, up your fiber intake and you’ll likely get less sugar cravings and feel more full.
Also what everyone else said, just don’t buy all the candy. If you feel like snacking, eat something with a little more substance so you don’t have to eat 10 of it to feel satisfied
One of my kids has adhd and is *constantly* dopamine seeking. She snacks just like this… When your current stash of candy and soda is gone, I would not repurchase. You could try switching out the soda for sparkling water and switching the snacks for versions with less added sugar and more protein and fiber. I highly recommend Built Puff bars, which taste like candy but they’re only ~140 calories and have 17g of protein. You could do a flavored Greek yogurt or an apple/ small banana with peanut butter (we like No Sugar Added Skippy). Do you like salty snacks at all? You could try string cheese, deli turkey, a hard boiled egg with seasonings of your choice. If you really like the rice cakes, I’d get plain ones and add a little peanut butter and a sprinkle of chia seeds.
Can definitely relate, and have heard “just don’t buy them” or “swap them for fruit or carrots” a million times before. For someone sugar-addicted (I definitely was!), that just isn’t realistic and sounds like torture. I can see with the diet sodas that you’re trying, and good on you for tracking! The artificial sugars might be making things worse for you, though.
What worked for me was keeping things in the house that TASTED indulgent but didn’t wreck my goals. Mio water flavorings helped me a ton for drinks. They come in a ton of flavors and don’t have that Splenda taste I hate from diet stuff. Their sweet tea flavor is by far my favorite, but they have ones like strawberry watermelon and cherry blackberry, too. I’ve bought sparkling water and added some squirts of those and they tasted awesome. (Not an ad lol)
For sugary snacks, I’d personally go to a supermarket and just spend a good hour checking labels up and down aisles to see what you CAN live with. My sweet spot was chocolate protein pudding–really low in sugar and some brands genuinely taste good and keep me full.
Not everything HAS to be “healthy.” Chocolate mousse cups aren’t healthy, but they feel so indulgent that I don’t need more after. There’s a caramel soy pudding that’s super thick and creamy and I buy it every time now. Also, Babybel mini cheese wheels are filling and thick enough that I only want one or two between meals.
Best of luck!!
This is in a day?
It looks like a sugar detox would be helpful. Super fucking hard but worth it
for example, you could limit yourself to 2x miniature peanutbutter cups (86 cal), a caramel rice cake (100 cal) and 2 glasses of the diet mtn dew (20cal). that’s 206 calories that includes a 10AM snack, 4PM snack and 2 drinks.
The 1300 remaining calories can be put towards nutritious and great filling food, you can plan 2 high quality meals and maybe an extra fruit snack like apple slices with a small amount of peanut butter
Eat a meal. Seriously. You should spend most of your day either full from a meal or saying “the next meal isn’t so far away, I can wait.”
Eating too-small meals (or skipping meals) is the main reason people snack so much. You may need to increase your total planned calories for the day (more than 1500 is fine!) and you’ll be more successful in the long run than eating tiny meals and snacking all day.
For the amount of cals you ate for 6 tootsie pops, yesterday I ate a pita with tuna and mayo, raisins, apples, spinach and pickles and a cup of cherries. You need some protein , fiber and volume so you feel full! ❤️❤️
That’s a year’s worth of empty hyper processed carbs for me! Switch to fruits that you enjoy as a first step. Since you seem to need convenience foods, I suspect that fresh fruits won’t work for you most of the time. If there are any dried fruits you enjoy, read the labels to avoid any added sugar, try raisins, mangoes, apricots, pineapple, apples and others available at most supermarkets. Freeze dried fruit costs more, but is super satisfying for its crunch and candy-like experience in the mouth. Try keeping miniature, seedless, easy peeling tangerines at home in a bowl in front of the television and on your desk.
That’s not snacking. That’s being addicted to sugar.
When I struggle with sugar it helps to avoid it until later in the day. Once ‘the seal is broken’ then I just want more sugar all day long, so if I start with something sweet in the morning the whole day is ruined.
Don’t try to completely eliminate added sugar from your diet. Doing so is almost guaranteed to result in binging. Work on delaying and reducing your sugar intake. Try skipping a whole day once a week for a while.