Eating Habits

You don't control much when incarcerated. To a certain extent you can choose what you eat.  For example you can trade desserts for vegetables, stop eating the table sugar and abstain from white bread.  In addition, if you are lucky enough to have money to spend in a commissary, you may want to buy healthy food, if it is available. In addition to controlling what you eat, you can manage how you eat. With so many different jails, prisons and lock up situations one rule wont fit all. I am going to tell you the rules I live by and maybe they can help you.
Stop overeating. The most common reasons for overeating in prison are: boredom, stress, eating alone and most of all, pleasure. Stop it!
Improve your eating habits by paying attention to what they are feeding you and what you are choosing to eat. Use that information to target the improvements you want to make. Make healthy food choices. Buy from commissary with health in mind. Ditch junk food, sodas and sweets.
Snacks aren't bad, its what you choose to snack on. Snacks can be quite beneficial. Snacking doesn't serve to replace a meal, it helps hold you over until the next one AND can actually reduce overeating.  Good snacks are: fruits, vegetables, nuts, eggs, high fiber cereal and wheat crackers. Just to name a few.
A snack is not mindless grazing. Instead of three main meals, I take food from each of the three, add a little healthy stuff from the commissary and have five small meals. Eating this way I don't have and afternoon crash and stay even keeled and less irritable. I eat at 6:20, 10:30, 2:30 and 6:30. Never eat after 7:00pm.
Remember, these are my choices, do what you can stick to. Happy grubbing!