I love how \u201cIt\u2019s Raining!\u201d is the top news story in Vancouver this week. I\u2019m not even from here, and that doesn\u2019t seem like its news to me.<\/p>\n
To be fair, this week does feel a lot more like October than August. As I was fairly content exercising during the warmer temperatures, there were major adjustments that I had to make now that the temperature has dropped.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m a snacker at heart, and the heat wave took care of my after dinner sweet tooth. Now that it\u2019s cooled off, my snacking tendencies have returned with a vengeance.\u00a0 So my challenge this week is to control my snacking.\u00a0 I\u2019ve boiled it down to a 3 step strategy.<\/p>\n
Step 1:\u00a0 Get Busy<\/strong> Step 2: Time\u2019s up!<\/strong> Step 3: Out of Sight, Out of Mind<\/strong> I\u2019ll try these 3 strategies this week and report back with my success (or lack thereof).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I love how \u201cIt\u2019s Raining!\u201d is the top news story in Vancouver this week. I\u2019m not even from here, and that doesn\u2019t seem like its news to me. To be fair, this week does feel a lot more like October than August. As I was fairly content exercising during the warmer temperatures, there were major […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":741,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/missionfitpossible\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/missionfitpossible\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/missionfitpossible\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/missionfitpossible\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/741"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/missionfitpossible\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=404"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/missionfitpossible\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":406,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/missionfitpossible\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404\/revisions\/406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/missionfitpossible\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/missionfitpossible\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/missionfitpossible\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nI have noticed that when I have the urge to snack, it\u2019s not really when I\u2019m hungry, it\u2019s more likely that I\u2019m bored.\u00a0 I find that when I watch TV in the evenings, I\u2019m so conditioned to snacking, regardless of whether or not I just ate dinner. To counteract this habit, I\u2019ve tried to save all my emails to family and friends until evening when I\u2019d normally just be sitting, watching TV. So now I am keeping my hands and brain busy so I hopefully forget about snacking altogether.<\/p>\n
\nI\u2019m a late night snacker. I usually want something sweet an hour or so after dinner. So, a few months ago I made a conscious effort to avoid eating after 8pm. Really, it was just an arbitrary time between when I finished dinner and when I went to bed.\u00a0 It worked really well for a few weeks, but I slipped up once and then stopped being so strict about it. I think I\u2019ll try to implement that cut off time again starting this week.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\nI\u2019ve been pretty good at this one lately.\u00a0 I think that\u2019s mostly because I hate grocery shopping, so I\u2019m always in a hurry to get out!\u00a0 Simply put: if you don\u2019t buy it, you can\u2019t eat it. So I\u2019ve avoided buying my favourite snack foods, like chips and cookies.\u00a0 Instead I fill my basket with fruits and vegetables and yogurt. Most of the time when I\u2019m in a snacking mood and can\u2019t find the food I want to snack on, I lose the urge to snack.\u00a0 That\u2019s when I realize, I wasn\u2019t actually hungry.\u00a0 Sometimes, however, I am legitimately hungry, and then I prepare myself a healthy snack.<\/p>\n