And welcome to this episode of the ESG Fitness Podcast.

This one's going to be all about snacking.

And the reason I'm talking about this is because it ruins more diets than probably any one single other thing.

Most people who are actively trying to lose fat have pretty good meals meals. They think about them and actually it's

the snacking, the mindless eating in between that tends to trip them up. And usually snacking isn't

actually about physical hunger. It's habit, it's tiredness, it's emotional avoidance, it's boredom,

it's your environment or its lack of structure. So I'm going to

talk through five tips of how to fix this. And I know that this might seem an extreme thing to say about

snacking, but I have been a fat loss coach for over a decade and I promise you, snacking is the thing

that's tripping you up especially if you feel like

you're doing everything right but you're not getting results it's the mindless grazing it's the

little bits that you eat in between it's the bits that you pick up off your kids plate or the

half portions that you finish those little things add up over time and that's usually what's pushing you out of the

deficit that you're trying to create. So five top tips for stopping snacking, and you will see that

these all relate to the reasons why people snack in the first place. The first one is to improve your

sleep. Now, this might seem quite a long way from the actual act of snacking.

But the reason I was thinking about this this week is that one of my clients found that the best thing

that she did for her fat loss results was to stop scrolling on TikTok at night. She ended up going

to sleep about 30 to 40 minutes earlier. She slept better.

She managed hunger better. Her cravings were reduced. He had more energy and she made better choices.

So weirdly, just the stopping scrolling at night rule was the thing that made fat loss so much

easier. That's tip number one. Improve your sleep if you have room to improve.

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