exercise cuts my appetite.

coming home late is a big problem for many, including me. Ice cream is my weakness.

mmmmmmmmm, ice cream.... sorry, I'm not much help.

force yourself to eat more during the day - the fist full of food every few hours eating habit is a good one.

I'm not much help, but I can certainly relate...i'll eat fruit and vegetables most of the day, a reasonable dinner, then find myself munching and snacking...yikes!

I do think it helps when I force myself to snack healthy...keep to raisins, fruits and vegetables, nuts (but not too many...sometimes I have more than I should), dry low sugar cereal like Cheerios or Wheat Chex, etc. They are calories, but healthy, vitamin-packed ones instead of empty ones like those in chips and cookies.

OK...here's the oddball (me). I take grief for this but I eat nothing for breakfast (except have 3 cups of coffee afer my morning run) and very rarely (once a month) eat lunch. When I come home at 4:30 to change for soccer practice I have a banana and some peanut butter which tides me over until I eat a normal dinner @7 pm. Surprisingly, I am not hungry during the day. Although, if I happen to have a cookie at work that a co-worker offers, I actually get more hungry than if I hadn't eaten anything. Does anyone else have such strange regimens?

i wish! i eat all day --- usually 6 to 7 times. that's what works for me.

but the peanut butter and banana trick? that is one of my absolute favorites! you can even spread peanut butter on a multigrain tortilla, put a banana in it, and wrap it up --- it makes it really portable and oh, so, tasty.

Apples and peanut butter also. The apple is great fiber and a good filler.