Late-night snacking just seems like it is part of a college student’s lifestyle.
You’re up late studying, you’re brain hurts and you’re counting down the minutes until you’ve made enough progress to take a short break.
From personal experience, nothing is more comforting than a midnight snack.
You search your refrigerator, then your pantry, making sure you’ve weighed all your options before making this important decision.
My midnight snack staple is wheat thins dipped in hummus.
Calories are calories, whether you eat them at noon or midnight.
A midnight snack isn’t necessarily a bad thing, as long as you aren’t adding too many additional calories. And it’s important to snack smart and control how much you eat. Ordering pizza at 2 a.m. isn’t going to help your diet.
Instead of picking up the phone to order cheesy bread, grab a piece of fruit or a low-calorie pudding. You will feel satisfied without packing on all the additional calories.
Since I’ve been home, I realized I do tend to snack late at night. Like many college students, I’m on a strange sleeping schedule. I stay up later and wake up later. So, when the rest of my family hits the sack around midnight, I’m still awake, and I start feeling hungry.
However, it’s difficult to choose a healthy snack when my mom has homemade desserts sitting on the kitchen table.
And I have to admit; I snuck a cookie late at night. It was delicious, but I could have lived without it. I will have to stick to my apple from now on.