I retired about 15 months ago. Now that I’m not snacking in the office all day, I’ve lost almost 40 pounds without making any effort to lose weight. Yes, snacking definitely was a habit, more for distraction than actual hunger.
These days, I find that I’ve fallen into a sort of intermittent fasting routine, though I am not at all rigorous about it. I just tend to do almost all my eating between about 10 and 7. My wife needs to lose some weight, and I’m trying to get her to consider a similar routine. One difficulty, though, is that she has to take certain medications with food at certain times of the day. We’ll work it out.
The program I followed allowed a very small amount of food with medication if necessary.
So, I sometimes eat two little peanut butter crackers with my morning meds even though I don’t have my first meal until lunch.
This approach has not caused any issues with my overall IF results. You might have your wife give that a try.