Snacking Help????

Eat however is the most intuitve for you. Studies show that it isn't the number of meals you eat that matter, but the total number of calories consumed in a 24-hour-period.

Some people prefer to skip breakfast, that's fine.

Some people eat six times a day

Makes no difference to your metabolism.

Some snacks I like are Greek yogurt, cottage cheese with crackers, and beef jerky.

Almonds, almonds, and more almonds. Get some dark chocolate covered ones if you care more for sweet than salty.

Bananas

Yogurt

I think it just depends on what you are eating for breakfast, lunch and dinner. I am going to start planning my meals to include snack too. Today, I am snacking on some 6 triscuits and a tablespoon of chunky peanut butter with a drizzle of honey and an Anjou Pear. I would suggest fruit, yogurt, nuts, whole grain crackers, peanut butter, veggies apples and cheddar cheese or even a little slice of brie. What ever you do just make sure you adjust your main meals.

I eat 3-4 small meals a day, definitely with breakfast and a snack at night. Unless I have long breaks inbetween meals due to long classes or work. In that case I have granny smith apple slices (80 calories for one apple) and all natural peanut butter (190 calories for 2 tbsp)/carrots (35 cals per serving) and peanut butter, granola bars (90-100 calories), 100 calorie popcorns, skinny cow ice cream sandwiches (150 cals), tuna (no mayo) (60 calories for 2.5 ounces) on wheat thins (140 cals for 16 crackers), special K snacks (100 cals), cuties mandarine oranges (2 for 72 calories), or string cheese (80 cals).

Theres lots to choose from!!! :bigsmile:

Almonds, almonds, and more almonds. Get some dark chocolate covered ones if you care more for sweet than salty.

Bananas

Yogurt

This! Almonds are a life saver for me...i love the wasabi and soy, the habanero bbq, and the dark chocolate ones...blue diamond has a huge variety of almonds...and they are soooo good for you...also i like to have a 100 calorie bag of popcorn in the evening before bed...you get alot of bang for your buck...lots of crunch and it takes a while to eat it.

Sounds like you need to plan for snacks between meals. Or divide your meals into 6 for the day.

The best snacks combine all 3 macro nutrients (carb, pro, fat).
An ounce of chicken or turkey on 2 or 3 crackers
Big lettuce leaf rolled around tuna with a little mayo.
Fruit with almonds or walnuts for some crunch or nut butter...thin it a bit with water and dip the fruit slices.
Plain yogurt with fruit
Cup of milk with a few pieces of dried fruit.
Smoothie made with a cup of frozen fruit, 6 TBS All Whites, and half cup of almond milk.


Get familiar with the calorie count of vaarious food you like by entering them in the food diary...if you don't eat them you can delete them.

If you want to divide your 3 big meals into 6 small ones go ahead but be sure you're not eating more this way. For example...if you normally had a sandwich with soup or salad and a fruit for lunch...have the soup and half sandwich at noon, then the other half plus the fruit at 3pm.

You can use the "search" tab on Community and put in "healthy snacks" and you'll pages to read from previous snack discussions.

Im still learning everyone but thank you all. for all the advice its much appreciated and most helpful. so agian thanks...teammaryterry.:flowerforyou:

Almonds and turkey jerky

I find if my meals are heavier in protein and healthy fats, I'll snack less.

Also, sometimes I'll just snack all day (healthily) instead of having actual meals.

I eat 3 meals/3 snacks a day. I have myself set up on a schedule & I stick to it as close as possible. I do bfast at 930, snack at 1130, lunch at 1 or 130 depending on the day, snack at 4pm, supper at 630 & my last snack of the day is between 9-930pm whenever the kids are in bed. Since I don't go to bed til midnight on week days my last snack being at 9ish works for me & is certainly better then the snack I use to have at 11pm every night before I started this. However I know alot of people who don't do the last snack if they go to bed around 10ish. If I didn't do this, I would snack all day long anyways, I find my cravings are always more intense & I am starved by meal time. There has been the occasional time that I missed a snack for one reason or another & then eating my next meal wasn't enough because I really did need that snack.

My snacks are mostly fruit, I keep a wide variety here but I also like Fibre 1 bars (20% of daily fibre in one bar), Other snack ideas could be baby carrots/dip, yogurt, frozen yogurt, broccoli, low cal popcorn (this is our new fav & its replaced chips for us. We could one that is only 150cals for half a bag so my husband & I will share a bag while watching a movie, it tastes great, just like theatre popcorn). Its not about denying yourself because most of us then will tend to over indulge, its about setting yourself up for a successful day :-)

Protein smoothies made with Greek yogurt, fruit, and ice
Hummus and pita chips (Be sure to count out your serving of the chips)
Carrot sticks and hummus
Greek Yogurt
Laughing Cow cheese and Triscuits (count out the serving)
Biscoff cookies in the two pack (78 calories) Sometimes, I have to have something sweet.
Weight Watchers ice cream mini sandwiches
Fudgcicles
Fruit
Almonds
Skinny Cow candy bars
Special K bars
Lance cookies (Nekot, Vanilla, Chocolate, Malt, Toast Chee) If you go to most dollar stores, these come four in a pack. There are normally six packs of cookies packaged together for $1. The calories are normally 140 calories.

As you can see, snacking is my specialty. ) I plan them because I know I want to snack. I just eat lighter meals. I eat about six times a day. I have read it helps with metabolism anyway. I eat the normal three and plan three snacks 150 calories or below. I eat 1500 calories a day.