I read that Americans eat 400-500 calories in snacks daily. A whole meal's worth. I sat there with my afternoon handful of crackers, my evening chocolate, my mindless weekend grazing. I wasn't snacking. I was eating secret meals. Meals I didn't count. Didn't plan for. Didn't sit down for. Just... consumed while scrolling, working, existing. No protein, no vegetables, just carbs and sugar I told myself didn't matter because they weren't "real food." The study said snacks make up a quarter of our daily calories. I did the math on mine. It was worse. I've been having this conversation with food for years—the negotiating, the justifying, the selective blindness. Calling it snacking made it smaller somehow. Less real. But my body kept the receipts. #FoodGuilt #MindlessEating #ControlIsExhausting #Health #Diet