How To Deal With Snacking On A Commute
Last Updated on: 26th February 2025, 03:39 pm
Deal With Snacking Your Own Way
When you commute to work, it is so easy to sit and pick at snacks or food. You change trains and grab a hot drink and a chocolate bar. Or waiting for the bus, you pop to the local sweet shop to pick up some sweets to eat on the journey. But we really need to get out of this habit, especially if we are trying to diet and lose weight. I am here to help you deal with snacking whilst you are out and about on the commute. But it could be for any reason that you end up snacking. Using different coping ways is a great idea and helps you to stop snacking when you want to.
Making Changes To Deal With Snacking
There are a few small and different changes you can make, that will make a huge change. You don’t need to make all of the changes in one go, you can do them one at a time. Then you will be making the changes without actually realising it. We want to share our top tips to keep you occupied on the daily commute, rather than deal with snacking.
Read A Book
If you are one of those people that can read whilst they travel, take a book to read. If you are really caught up in the storyline, then your trip will end before you know it. Make sure it is a physical book, so you can hold it in your hands. This helps you to deal with snacking and you won’t pick at food. There is something special about holding a book as you read it. I don’t know if it is the smell of the pages, the crispiness of the pages or if it is the comfortable feeling you get.
Digital books or audiobooks don’t work the same way as a normal book. They still leave your hands free to pick. Choose a book that you can feel like you are part of. This also helps with dealing with stress too because it takes you to another place, somewhere exciting.
Deal With Snacking By Taking A Healthy Picnic
If you are travelling quite a way and it covers mealtime, it is always best to take a snack with you. Then you know that it is healthy and what is inside there. Buying a sandwich whilst you are out is usually packed with calories. You can easily try one of these lunch on the go ideas and keep it within your healthy eating plan. Planning your meals in advance is a good way to help you continue your dieting and healthy eating.
Take Up A Hobby
During the lockdown, so many people started a new hobby whilst they were stuck at home. Whether it is crochet, knitting or scrapbooking it can all be done on the work commute. If you didn’t get time to start one in any of the lockdowns, then it is never too late to start. Knitting and crochet keep your hands busy, so you don’t get tempted to eat rubbish food.
These days, you can buy a hobby starter kit online or in the shops. But you can also learn a new hobby from places like YouTube or TikTok …… in fact you can even take up TikTok as a hobby! The best thing about this is that it gets you being creative and it is free to start on the platform. If you cannot get TikTok for a reason, you can try Instagram reels instead. You never know, you might go viral.
Try A Bit Of Journalling
Keeping a diary is not a new thing, but it has become more creative over the years. Nowadays, you can cut pictures and stick them in. People use pens to colour in their weeks. Journalling is great for keeping track of things like water intake, how much exercise you have had, and what you have eaten. So you can really tie this in with your healthy eating plan.
You can also start a blog, this is probably easier if you are going to do it on the go. You can write a blog post on your phone, on your laptop or even on paper as you travel. Starting a blog is free to do on platforms such as Blogger and WordPress and they are easy to set up. Then as you become more confident, you can progress to going self-hosted and getting a domain name.
Catch Up With Friends
Now is the time for you to kick back, grab your phone and message your friends. Messaging is easier on the commute because you don’t want everyone to know your business. And to be honest, people don’t want to know your business. They want to chill and relax like you. So you are stuck on a bus or train for the next 30 minutes, or an hour. You are doing nothing, so spend that time catching up.
You can share all of your latest news and catch up with your friend’s news. Life is so busy when you are a grown-up. But good friends understand this and they are happy to chat when it suits you.
If you have any ideas to add to the list of things to do on the commute to deal with snacking and occupied, let us know in the comments and we can add them.
