How Not To Over Eat When Bored

The following is taken from the Biggest Loser Club Newsletter:

"Bored? Here's how not to eat over it

A good place to start is to ask yourself why you should change your behavior if you eat when you're bored. What is it costing you? Is it contributing to weight gain? Does it drain your energy leaving you feeling rather blah? Get clear on the WHY changing is going to improve your life.

There are no easy answers but plenty of strategies that can help. The best ones are to keep your triggers away from you and to make sure that you have a healthy and satisfying snack prepared.

Also, get enough sleep so that aren't eating from fatigue; engage in regular exercise which will increase your energy and establish a consistent eating structure so that your blood sugar doesn't crash. Come up with strategies for keeping yourself busy, inspired, or distracted at work to help you make it from a healthy breakfast to a healthy snack and then to lunch. Same with making it through the afternoon.

Make sure that you eat half of your calories during the first half of the day and you have a good source of protein at breakfast and/or lunch. This will help you have more "will power" to stick with your guns."