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Message: <blockquote data-quote="xrpsuzi" data-source="post: 3763534" data-attributes="member: 10675">For work, bring fruit and veggies to snack on during the day. Bananas and carrots are fairly inexpensive and have lots of vitamins. Apples and oranges can be less expensive when you buy the bag on sale. Celery with a little sugar-free peanut butter is a nice snack too. I love ants on a log. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />For home and the weekends, buy frozen. It's often cheaper than fresh, you can load up while they are on sale, and it's not as processed as canned fruits and veggies. On frozen fruits, make sure they don't have added sugar.Frozen and canned veggies can also help you cook more at home. You don't have to come up with something from scratch or slave away cooking everything. They are already cooked, so it's just a matter of heating things up, putting it on a plate and cooking a piece of lean meat. I eat lean cuisines when I don't feel like cooking, but the processed sauces get to me after a while and I reach the point where I'd rather have plain veggies with a little salt and pepper.To curb the hunger, try eating smaller portions but more often, and eat a salad at least once a day. There's a whole school of dieting that works on volumetrics (eating a grape instead of a raisin sort of thing) to give you the sensation of being full on volume but not on the calories. But the long and short of it is that you will be hungry--part of losing weight is eating less food that necessary to sustain your current weight  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown    :("  data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" /> Oh and don't buy soda, chips, and sweets. You can't eat them if they aren't in the house. From what you posted, it doesn't sound like you do, but it never hurts to mention that. That's all I got on the food front. Walking to work and the store should be enough exercise to keep your metabolism up if you eat less calories than your body needs to sustain your current weight.-suzi</blockquote>

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