Here is a little Wednesday Wisdom~Well before your workout plan your PRE & POST snacks or meals. This not only gets you thinking about working out and living healthy, it can prevent a post-exercise binge if you are hungry.
If you wait until you’re hungry to decide what to eat you’ll eat anything in front of you. Choose between 3-6 meals per day and ration your total calories accordingly. Use a calorie tracking reference or tool that makes it easy to count calories throughout the day. Measure everything! Plan on drinking lots of water because you don’t want to drink your calories – you need to spend calories on nutritious foods
Try some of these satisfying, yet healthy and low fat snack suggestions:
* Popcorn, made with air popper
* "Bars" that are high in protein, low fat and moderate carbs -- some recommended choices are South Beach Living Protein Cereal Bars and Luna Bars
* Non-fat yogurt
* Pretzels (the hard kind)
* Dry cereal (make sure to avoid high sugar varieties)
* Low fat granola
* A small "Berry Fulfilling" Jamba Juice smoothie
* Use peanut butter sparingly to make banana, apple or celery more exciting. Spread a thin layer of peanut butter on an apple wedge and then cover with raisins
* Quaker rice cake minis -- try the chocolate mint - it has decadent flavor with low fat and low calories
* Dried pineapple - yes, it is fruit, but it is portable, easy and sweet!
* Tuna - mix some tuna with light mayo and spread it on whole grain crackers for a filling healthy snack.
* Pickles - don't eat too many because of the salt, but a couple baby dills can really quash cravings.
* Hummus - dip carrots or other crudites in it to snazz up their flavor.
* Skinny cow cones and skinny dippers - when you really need a decadent-feeling treat, one of these will do the trick!
* Popcorn, made with air popper
* "Bars" that are high in protein, low fat and moderate carbs -- some recommended choices are South Beach Living Protein Cereal Bars and Luna Bars
* Non-fat yogurt
* Pretzels (the hard kind)
* Dry cereal (make sure to avoid high sugar varieties)
* Low fat granola
* A small "Berry Fulfilling" Jamba Juice smoothie
* Use peanut butter sparingly to make banana, apple or celery more exciting. Spread a thin layer of peanut butter on an apple wedge and then cover with raisins
* Quaker rice cake minis -- try the chocolate mint - it has decadent flavor with low fat and low calories
* Dried pineapple - yes, it is fruit, but it is portable, easy and sweet!
* Tuna - mix some tuna with light mayo and spread it on whole grain crackers for a filling healthy snack.
* Pickles - don't eat too many because of the salt, but a couple baby dills can really quash cravings.
* Hummus - dip carrots or other crudites in it to snazz up their flavor.
* Skinny cow cones and skinny dippers - when you really need a decadent-feeling treat, one of these will do the trick!
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