Help me to not eat my children's snacks

[Anonymous]

Need to lose 30 lbs but find myself reaching for the snacks every night. Watching what I ate was so much easier before children because I just wouldn't keep snacks around. For those of you who have been successful at losing weight, how do you avoid the tempting snacks? Do you just not buy them for the kids?

[Anonymous]

I don't,t buy the ones I really can't help myself with.

[Anonymous]

Ditto PP, don't bring junk in the house. But them stuff you don't like.

But drinking tea also helps keep me from snacking.

[Anonymous]

My kids snack on fruit and veggies and nuts - same stuff I snack on.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't,t buy the ones I really can't help myself with.

+1. I also buy all my favorite fruit regardless of whether they are in season. Right now I'm munching on a bowl of blueberries. I try to cut up fruit and veggies in bulk (carrots, pineapple, cantaloupe mostly) so it's easy to snack on when the urge hits.

[Anonymous]

My son is really into seaweed as a snack.

I am never tempted.

[Anonymous]

Same here. The only snacks we have are baby carrots, grapes, apples, almonds, hb eggs. My dd loves them, and eats them when she gets home from school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My kids snack on fruit and veggies and nuts - same stuff I snack on.

Same here.

[Anonymous]

OP here, my kids also eat and enjoy all of the above healthy options. Maybe I'm really just buying the less healthy snacks with the excuse that they are 'treats' for the kids but it's really my way of getting them in the house for myself and it's not good for any of us. Good reality check, thanks! So do your kids ever have a cookie or ice cream at home? Is dessert always carrot sticks and apples?

[Anonymous]

Buy fruit, lowfat cheese sticks, etc. Yeah it's hard to resist good snacks, I could smack DH for buying a box of Ho-Hos last week. Ugh.

[Anonymous]

Like above, I don't buy snacks that have problems with. We also tend towards healthier snacks. But take something like goldfish, which my children like to have occasionally. I buy single serving packages because I am less likely to break into them and if I do, I'll only eat one package. It costs me more, but it's healthier for me.

In the past, when there was something I really wanted (my children wanted to try twinkies, I wanted one too), I'll take one out of the box, set it aside for me - even writing "mom" on it if necessary - and tell myself that's mine. Just that one. I find that once I've put one aside, my perceived need decreases and it's easier for me to limit myself to that one treat.

[Anonymous]

We have ice cream in the freezer for kid's dessert. It is plain vanilla, so it does nothing for me. Kids love it!

[Anonymous]

get ice cream for dessert when out to eat once a week or something. there is something about carby snacks and cookies that just can seem addictive. you really can't just eat one!!! for me, yeah, I can't really keep it in the house without the effort not to eat it. easier to just keep healthy stuff and let the kids buy it at school as a treat or during an outing where access is a little more limited. if it's bad for you and your diet, they probably don't need it either. I feel like at school and parties etc., friends houses they get some junk anyway. just don't be the house that never has fun snacks. your kids will go to friends and way overeat the stuff they never get.

[Anonymous]

We don't have desert at home. Sometimes we'll get a little chocolate, but that's it.

[Anonymous]

Put all the snacks downstairs in the basement to make them harder to get to. You'll think twice about getting a snack if you have to walk downstairs : )