These ways to stop cravings at night will save your waistline and keep you from guilt!
2. Distract yourself
Boredom can be a big reason you suddenly feel hungry. If you’re not tired, but it’s too late to snack, simply distract yourself! Often times, a strange craving for chips or cookies is merely psychological, and not your body telling you it’s time to eat.
As weird as it may sound, doing something unappetizing, like cleaning your toilet, or taking out the cat litter, can be a great distraction. You can also try distracting yourself with an evening walk around the block.
One study found that walking briskly for 15 minutes reduced cravings for chocolate.
You can even try distracting yourself by meditating. which lowers levels of stress. Stress boosts the hormone cortisol, which triggers the urge to eat unhealthy foods high in fat and sugar.
Check out these other ways daily meditation can help you lose weight.
3. Suck on hard candy
Most hard candy is low in calories and gives you the satisfaction of just having something tasty in your mouth.
Make your hard candy one with peppermint. One study found that when inhaling peppermint scent every two hours, participants reported feeling significantly less hungry and that they ate 1,800 fewer calories than normal.
The researchers also found that the peppermint scent reduced cravings, and reduced the intake of fat and sugar.
Perhaps you can even distract yourself while getting that peppermint scent by making this DIY Peppermint Sugar Foot Scrub.
