Im sick of fruit for a snack! help!?
I used to be 215 pounds, but cut my caloric intake to 2000 a day and i run about 1.5-2 miles about 4 days a week. Ive lost 20 pounds and now im down to 195. I am sick of snacking on fruit for snacks! I want something else, like chips, or maybe chocolate rice cakes? anything else please! any suggestions of something thats not loaded with sodium, fats, or sugars? thanks
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- Quaker rice snacks. Them is yummy.
- Yogurt! Most grocery stores sell yogurt and I LOVE IT!! Im a huge fan of it. You've come so far, dont give up now! Good luck!
- Get those Atkins Advantage bars, there tasty, and only one gram of sugar.
I sound like the commercial on the radio!
- Sun chips, pretzels, baked chips
- granola bars, crackers with cheese and turkey ham etc
- Try trail mix, they're great for snacks not only do they keep your hunger down, they dont get you fat and they're good.
- Keep on eating fruits and other healthy stuff like nuts, low-fat products.
Every once in awhile treat yourself to one of that fatty treats, but do not get hooked on it.
- banana chips or yogart, cheese.heath bars. like oatmeal bars. veg,s.or barrys.
- Quakers Rice snacks are really good. Weight watchers yogurt, carrots, and veggie. They do have like chips and like oreos that are only 100 calorie packs. You could do those. GOod luck I know what its like!
- All Natrual, Organic ,Full Circle fruit filled cereal bars are GREAT! Taste like gooey fresh fruit wrapped in pie crust...mmm. (going to get one right now)
You can find them at Trader Joes.
- Congrats on your weight loss! I need a snack late at night sometimes if I'm up late (due to my Y!A addiction!), and I've found that instant oatmeal is the perfect snack. If I'm in the mood for salty food, I add a pat of butter and a bit of salt; if I want sugar there's either the real stuff or sweetener; and if I need some protein to hold me until breakfast, I add a spoonful of peanut butter. And oatmeal is pretty low in fat, etc.
Good luck and keep up the good work!
- you can eat dried friut chips, like apple chips or banana chips, or you can eat those 100 calorie packs they have cookies and all kinds of stuff you just have to look for them and you can even get some candy bars that are made by slimfast if you want. there are several healthy snacks that you can eat you just have to look around, i like pickles too.
- Congrats on your excellent progress!
NOTE: THE MAJORITY OF PACKAGED FOOD EVEN SO CALLED "HEALTHY" BARS AND CAKES AND WHAT NOT ARE PACKED WITH SUGAR (ONE FORM OR ANOTHER), SALT, AND PRESERVATIVES. DON'T DO IT. :-)
Pack some small bags of lightly nuked veggies instead!
I could give you a long list of healthy easy snacks but you probably have tried them. Instead I will share with you the BEST snacking trick I have figured out in the last year. Okay here it is LOL.
Basically you half nuke veggies. It can be thick slices of beets or carrot sticks, zucchini sticks etc. Eating raw is great but it gets old and is noisy hard work. And soft veggies are not exactly a handy food.
Same with fruit. So here are my faves: beets, zucchini, carrots, fuji apples, yam chips - yam chips! Yum! And you have to experiment with your own nuker. Try 2 minutes to start. IT'S REALLY AN AMAZING IDEA.
Also try unsalted unroasted nuts. Whole Foods e.g. has a raw peanut from Georgia that is AMAZING.
Start with the CHEWY YAM CHIPS - 100% natural nd great.
- All-natural organic peanut butter on celery sticks
Lowfat string cheese and whole wheat crackers
Smoothie made with skim milk, banana and ice
Hard boiled egg
Whole wheat tortilla w/lean turkey or chicken breast
Keep up the good work!
- Congratulations and good work. They make cereal bars, like fiber one & grape nuts that are filling and most of them have about 140-150 calories and lots of fiber.
- try the weight watchers snacks, pastires, frozen desserts, etc.
they are low in calories...
also, there are 100-calorie packs of stuff you can get that are really good!
- I'm in the same boat as you man...the fruit gets old and lugging around foods that need to be kept cold is a pain (especially when you are at work or school).
I've lost about 30 so far and since I don't have access to a fridge during the day, I've used protein/granola bars and triscuts as some ways to snack. Depending on how much exercise I plan on doing on a particular day, I'll usually a cliff bar (all flavors are pretty good) or a Kashi GoLean Crunch bar. If I don't plan on working out or I've eaten more at lunch, I might only have half in the morning and then the other half in the afternoon. The great thing about these is that they are nutritionally balanced so you feel full longer than you would from a piece of fruit. Also, a handful of triscuts is great because they are high in fiber (which helps you feel full) and are low in sugar as well.
Keep on keeping on.
- Lays/Ruffles make a "light" chip that has 0 fat and only like 70 calories for a serving. Two servings is a pretty big pile of chips and I love 'em!!
Popcorn is a nother great one-- you can eat TONS and its very few calories.
Try a good cereal too!
- Those chocolate chip and caramel apple rice cake are a great substitute. A cup of yogurt is great too. If you keep a steady exercise routine going, you need to worry more about portions than what food you eat. A small bag of chips, or a scoop of ice cream won't hurt a diet, if you only eat them once or twice a week. Feeling depraved and bored is the number one reason diets fail. It's also the reason people keep getting rich creating new weight loss programs. Unless you're told to avoid certain foods, for medical reasons, stick with a healthy balanced diet, that includes all the foods you enjoy. Just stick to the proper portions. If you do that, and continue exercising, you'll lose all the weight you body needs to, while maintaining proper nutrition.
Best of luck, and congratulations on your weight loss.
- Hop & Go! delicious, yet healthy and nutritious and practical. and those Quaker bars with the old man on the front. OOh! i also like Yop.
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