I've had lots of clues lately that I need to specifically list my poor (fat-building) eating habits and begin to focus on improvement. Let me see if I can list at least a few:

Eating at night is my biggie. No matter that I've achieved and appropriate nutrient balance throughout the day, I've achieved my calorie goal, and I am NOT hungry, still my brain (not my stomach) begins its search: what can we eat, what can we eat, what can we eat. I have stocked healthy snack foods and I have healthy (chocolate even) desserts, trying to scratch that desire for sweet? salty? crunchy? delicious? After all the appeasements to appetite, I'm still looking. I do believe the final solution to this poor habit (heck, let's call it a bad habit) is just to tell the greedy soul "no" and "no" and "no" until she gives up and goes off on another pursuit.

I do hope that new pursuit is something to replace TV. Watching TV is another poor eating habit. How can TV be an eating habit? That's when the brain really divides, part saying, "Oh, but I enjoy following the stories and comics and other fluff," and the other part saying, "What can we eat, what can we eat."

Poor eating habit: Portion control, putting too much on my plate. I have improved some on this habit since I realized it comes from a fear there won't be enough, a fear left over from childhood and the need to share with three other sibs and treats were few and far between. I've not really conquered it though, I've noticed.

Portion control redux: If a little is good, a lot will be wonderful. I do love to eat. If I don't have to come back for seconds, that's like not really eating too much, is it?

Time to get ready for work -- ack! I'll be thinking on this.