Problem: Article: Breakfast is perhaps the most important step for combating nighttime food cravings. A healthy breakfast sets the tone for the rest of the day and can keep you full at night. Shifting your caloric intake towards the morning can help you feel full later in the day. If the bulk of your daily calories are consumed during breakfast and lunch, then you'll have less room during and after dinner to overindulge. Go for lean protein, whole wheats, and fruit for breakfast. Ideally, aim for about 350 calories. If you exercise a lot, however, or have a physically demanding job consider upping the amount. Eggs are a favorite breakfast food for a good reason. They're a great source of protein, which helps balance your blood sugar later in the day. However, make sure you prepare your eggs in a healthy fashion. Cook them in olive or canola oil over butter or margarine and do not add too much salt. If you're not an egg eater, other healthy breakfast proteins include granola, nuts, low-fat cheeses, and low-fat milk. If you happen to have your favorite snacks on hand, you'll keep focusing on them. Even if you're not hungry, you will likely crave the taste. Removing the junk means removing the temptation. Identify which foods you go for during nighttime snacking. Oftentimes, especially if our eating is emotional, we go for the sweet or salty. It might be best to toss the bag of oreos or microwave popcorn if you find yourself snacking on junk food at night. If you really feel you deserve a bedtime snack, consider altering your junk food supply rather than completely eliminating it. Purchase 100 calorie bags of chips or sleeves of cookies. You can also mix healthy foods with less healthy ones for a low calorie nighttime treat. Dip fruit in chocolate spreads, like Nutella, for example, or mix a small amount of brown sugar into a bowl of oatmeal. If you want junk food like chips and dips on hand for social gatherings, you can keep certain foods in your cupboards but restrict your personal access. Put the junk food on high shelves that take awhile to reach. Freeze sweets and cookies so they have to thaw before consumption. When you want to indulge a craving, you'll have added time to consider what you're doing and re-think the unhealthy snack. The glycemic index is a ranking of carbohydrates measuring how much a certain food raises blood-glucose levels in the body. Low glycemic foods leave one feeling fuller longer, which reduces the likelihood of nighttime eating. A sudden rise in blood sugar, often a result of processed foods and refined sugars, leads to a burst of insulin, which in turn reduces the blood sugar levels back to normal. This zig-zagging rise and fall means you end up hungrier faster. If you're consuming foods with a high glycemic index throughout the day, you'll be hungrier longer. This can lead to nighttime eating. Essentially, a low glycemic diet means getting the bulk of our daily carbohydrates from whole wheat grains, vegetables and fruits, and healthy proteins. Products with added sugar or made from white wheat are not recommended. Foods with a low glycemic index score 55 or below on the GI scale. Low glycemic foods include barley, beans, bran cereal, carrots, celery, lentils, whole wheat pasta, brown rice, low-fat yogurt, and a variety of fruits and veggies. High glycemic foods have a score of 70 and over. They include sugary cereals, white breads and rices, potatoes, pretzels, and most sweets. Depriving yourself of calories throughout the day leads to nighttime overeating. Making sure you're well-nourished in the hours leading up to the evening can stop nighttime eating. Do not drink your calories. Oftentimes, we fill up on sugary sodas, juices, and sports drinks. The added sugar mess with our blood sugar levels, leading to late night hunger. Drink water if you're thirsty or low/no calorie beverages like coffees and teas. Snack healthy. If you get hungry between meals, do not simply ignore those cravings. If they come gradually, you're likely experiencing physical hunger and your body needs more fuel. Try eating a handful of nuts or a small bowl of fruit or veggies. Filling up your body with healthy snacks throughout the day curbs the desire to eat at night. Eat balanced meals. Balanced meals are comprised of plenty of fruits and veggies, whole wheats and grains, lean proteins like fish and poultry, and heart healthy fats such as those found in olive and canola oil. If overeating at night is a habit, you're not likely to give it up overnight. You can help ease the transition by switching from unhealthy nightly snacks to healthier options. Cut up fruits and vegetables and keep them in Tupperware containers in your fridge. That way, they'll be easy to grab when the desire to eat after dinner surfaces. You can buy pre-sliced fruit and veggies from the supermarket. This might be a good option if you tend to be disorganized and may not remember to prepare nighttime snacks yourself. If you're a chip eater, you might be tempted to swap out the regular potato chips for supposedly healthier options like kettle chips, baked chips, and chips made from healthy sounding ingredients like sweet potato and quinoa. Be wary of such options. Oftentimes, the nutritional profile of such "healthy" options is similar to that of any potato chip. They're still, essentially, empty carbs. You're better off ditching the chips altogether in terms of a nightly snack.
Summary: Eat breakfast. Purge the junk food from your cupboard. Choose foods with a low glycemic index. Eat and drink throughout the day. Prepare healthy nighttime snacks.

Problem: Article: Weeding by hand can be tough on the fingernails and skin of your fingers. To avoid hurting your hands, and to give yourself a stable grip on the weeds, use cotton gardening gloves. You can purchase cotton gardening gloves at any nursery or gardening center. Hand weeding is an effective, though time-consuming and tedious, method of controlling weeds. This method is preferable in small lawns, or in lawns not completely overrun with weeds. If weeds in your lawn are widespread, another removal method will be more practical. The blade of the trowel or digger should be at about a 65 anglenot quite vertical, but largely upright. Drive the tool into the soil about 45 inches (1013cm) to loosen the soil surrounding the weed's roots. Repeat this 3 or 4 times, loosening the soil on all sides of the root. Trowels and dandelion diggers can both be purchased at a local plant nursery or gardening center. Both should cost less than $5 USD. To properly remove a weed, you need to pull it out by the root. Hold the base of the weed firmly, using your full handdon't just pinch the stalk of a weed using 2 fingers. If you're pulling up a clump of weeds, grasp the entire clump at its base. Perennial weeds like dandelions can be plucked most effectively in early spring. If left to grow until summer, the dandelions will have put down thick taproots. Loosen the root in the soil if you feel resistance when you attempt to uproot it. Twist the base of the root back and forth 5 or 6 times. This will loosen the weed's roots in the soil and make it easier to pull. If you pull too hard without rotating the weed, its stem will snap off but the root will remain in the ground. The weeds can quickly regrow from a root still in the ground. If there is a small hole left behind after you've pulled the weed, fill it with some loose soil. Carry a small trash bag around with you as you move across your lawn pulling weeds. As soon as you've plucked weedswhether individual or in large clumpsfrom the ground, toss them into the bag. This will prevent the weeds' seeds from scattering over your lawn.
Summary:
Purchase a pair of thick cotton gloves. Press a trowel or dandelion digger into the soil near the base of the root. Grasp the stalk of the weed at its base. Rotate the base of the weed as you pull it out. Toss weeds into a trash bag as soon as they're pulled.