You know it’s not good for you, but it’s hard to break the habit. Many times you might not even notice you are doing it, getting up and going to the cupboard.
Have “beacons” that you can stick in or near the places you go to when you want a snack. Every time you approach any of these “beaconed” places your smartphone will alert you not to do it. You might even record a personal message that plays at that point. You can also have multiple messages, each one playing when you approach the “beacon” associated with it.
Many people attribute at least part of their success to their routines and habits. Get to see what they do.
A series of interviews (audio, video, and/or text) of famous and successful people about what they do after they get up in the morning and before they go to sleep at night.
By consciously thinking once a day about one important thing you have learned that day you’ll: fix it into your long term memory; motivate yourself to learn something new every day.
Keep a notebook and get into the habit – just before you go to bed – of thinking about what you have learned that day. Write it in your notebook. Keep the notebook beside your bed to have a visual cue to help you remember and turn this into a habit. After a year look back and see how you progressed.