Instead of eating cookies or other snacks for in-betweens, try churning up for fresh green salads without the dressing or just a teaspoon of dressing. A piece of apple or an orange (not orange juice but the whole fruit including the fibers) will also do.

Fibers and roughage will help you stomach feel fuller and would help maintain the blood sugar levels in a more constant level making you think less of being hungry.

Also, it would hlp if you take your meals at regular time or intervals. This will help your system adjust to your day and be productive out of it.

Last about food, try to take your food at least 4 hours before sleeping. Food means all calorie containing food and drinks. The only real sure 100% no calorie is water, pure water! The others, try not having them 4 hours prior to sleeping.

Lastly, weight lifting is not a form of exercise to make you lose weight. It is for body building and sometimes would make you gain weight in certain areas of you body. A good exercise for weight loss is aerobic exercise. It does not need to be streneous, it could be very light. What is important is that the physical activity is sustained in a prolonged period of time (not less than 30 minutes) and would keep your body moving, and breathing.

Walking is also a form of aerobic exercise, you don’t need to buy a treadmill to do it, just go out and walk. You can go to a mall and roam around for hours, that would be an exercise.

By the way, you should weigh around 187 pounds as your desirable body weight. 10% more or less is acceptable though.

Hope you’ll get to your target!