I snack too much. While my most common snacks aren't processed food, they're calories I don't need. One good snack leads to another, as I condition myself to snack at the first sign of hunger.
This weekend, being stuck at home due to the big snowfall, and things to snack on readily at hand, I decided to get serious about breaking the snack habit.
The best way to stop a habit, I think, is to replace it with something else. There's a trigger - in this case a little hunger - that leads to reaching for a snack. The trigger will still be there, for a while at least, but I can replace my response to it with something better. I know a number of simple posture alignment things that take just a few seconds to do, and a nice conscious breath in and out, so when I feel the snacking urge, I stop and give myself a little alignment.
There's a little willpower needed to stick with the choice not to snack, but the most important thing is to disrupt the automatic habit, that has the snack in hand (or mouth) before I'm thinking about it.
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