The Snack Attack.

Ever wonder how you can hold it together all day, you eat "clean", check all your boxes but find yourself knees deep in the refrigerator after dinner or on the weekends? There might be a couple reasons from a biological stand point and a behavioral standpoint, but what I see most is;

You're HUNGRY.

Here's what usually happens as I am checking in with clients about what their day of eating looks like.

Client: Well, I'm not hungry in the morning, so I skip breakfast, have some coffee and usually wait until late morning to eat.

10am: Gets hungry, eats a banana, a smoothie or protein shake

1pm: Salad with chicken breast because "it's healthy"

3pm: mindlessly looks for some else to snack on because lunch didn't quite do it. Snack pack of popcorn, bag of chips, or 8 almonds will do.

6pm: Dinner: eats some more chicken or salmon, and some veg. Or maybe too hungry so I'll just order take out instead.

8pm: scouring the kitchen, raiding the pantry, knees deep in refrigerator eating whatever is in sight up until bedtime.

Sound like you?

All the "bad" foods that we don't want to be eating happen when we are not properly fed and continue to be stuck on lame, small bits of bland diet food.

There is a lot to unpack here but I'll start with your solution; Eat more. More specifically, eat more in the first part of the day. It is upside down with our circadian rhythm to be eating most our food in the later part of the day ( That's a whole other issue!). For now, when your first hunger of the day strikes, eat a FULL MEAL. Make that meal mostly protein and fat and watch how your hunger shows up the rest of the day.

Give it a try and let me know how it goes!