Healthy Snacks Can Help You Lose Weight!
Find out how eating healthy snacks can increase your metabolism and help you lose weight. Learn how to choose snacks that are healthy.
Why is snacking important?
Research has shown that eating five or six small meals a day is healthier than eating a two or three larger ones. The "grazer" has the advantage. Why would this be?
Eating frequent, small meals or healthy snacks helps to keep your metabolism functioning at it’s peak capacity. Plus, you’ll find yourself eating less at meal time if you’ve had small snack portions throughout the day.The caveat is that your snacks or small meals must be healthy ones.
Here are some tips for healthy snacking:
1. Choose snacks that are low in processed sugar. Some good choices would be fresh fruit, vegetables, yogurt, peanut butter on whole grain crackers, sugar free ice cream or sorbet, cottage cheese, nuts, or air popped popcorn without butter.
2. Make sure to watch your portions. One suggestion would be to buy those preportioned healthysnack packs which have 100 calories. You could also create your own packs using a gram scale and then package them in sandwich bags for future use.
3. Always carry a snack pack with you. You don’t want to be caught in a situation where you might have to get an unhealthy snack out of a vending machine.
4. Vary your healthy snacks so you don’t get bored and start craving more unhealthy alternatives.
5. Use you imagination to add pizzazz to your snacks! Dress them up with a flavorful, healthy dressing, a bit of low fat cheese spread, sugar free fruit spread, herbs, and spices.
Healthy really CAN taste good.
Follow these guidelines and you’ll be rewarded with a more fit and shapely physique!
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zinnia | Oct 27, 2008 | Reply
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rajeev bhargava | Jun 1, 2009 | Reply
beautiful article. i have made this my regular routing to have 5 -6 healthy snacks to keep my metabolism going stong and it really works. i eat dates as snacks after my soya milk and 2 bananas. i also eat a spoonfull of peanuts.