Restrict all your eating to one location, such as the kitchen or dining room table. It should be comfortable, but not filled with distractions like television, reading material or computer screens. By luring your focus away from your food, they can make you eat more. You may also start pairing or associating eating with an activity, like watching television. It’s bad enough that television commercials tempt us with high-calorie food advertisements, but if just turning the box on makes you start thinking “eat now,” it’s that much harder to stay on track.

Where is your eating place? Are there other places that you associate with eating, like your desk at work or your car?

I eat my main meals at the table but what I have to change is evening munching in the living room while watching t.v. I have tried to stop night time eating, telling myself I will not eat junk food after dinner time but always go back to binging at night. Maybe the best solution for me would be to allow myself the idea of snacking at night but only in the kitchen at the table. That way I am not saying I will deny myself but only condition the temptation to eat junk food by eating it at the table. I have a feeling that I would eat much less at the table than in front of the t.v. or maybe pass up the junk food altogether. Has anyone tried this idea as a help to night time eating?

NancyLee


NancyLee

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We have two places at home. Breakfast in in the nook by the kitchen. Dinner is in the living room in front of the TV usually with the news playing.

How do we manage portion control that way? With only the two of us we dish out dinner on the plates and carry them into the living room. That way to get more than what you are served you have to physically get back up and go get more food. It is not there in front of you to continue eating mindlessly.