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7 Healthy Snacks for Diet Success
Homemade Trail Mix
For many women, dieting equals food restriction. Snacks? They usually get eliminated in the name of saving calories. But snacking when you're watching your weight is actually a good idea. "[When dieting,] people often wait too long in between meals, so by the time they eat, they're so hungry, their portions or choices are out of control," says Linda McLachlan, RD, CDN, a New Jersey dietitian with Nutrition Matters, LLC. "Snacking helps keep you satisfied and wards off cravings." Here, seven low-calorie snacks to help you with your diet goals.
Homemade Trail Mix
"Diet-friendly snacking doesn't necessarily have to be low-fat," says McLachlan. What's more important: Portion size. A homemade trail mix of walnuts, mini chocolate chips, and raisins is a snack that's satisfying (thanks to the sweetness and fat) and healthy for a dieter if portion sizes are kept in check. "Mix a palm full of walnuts with a pinch of chocolate chips and a pinch of raisins -- it's not always realistic to measure," says McLachlan.
Recommended serving size: about 1 ounce of walnuts and about a teaspoon each of raisins and chocolate chips
Calories: about 250
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1/13/2012 05:20:52 PM Report Abusetoo much sugar
9/23/2011 08:55:15 AM Report AbuseMy mix: Walnuts, raisins, Cherrios whole grain cereal (it is healthier) Leave out the chocolate chips. This allows the natural sugar in the raisins to suffice for the sweetness, add nutrition and give slow long energy.
9/22/2011 10:19:53 AM Report AbuseMy issue is "who eat a palm full of anything"??? I know that is what you are suppose to do what really is that going to satisfy you? It doesn't me so I avoid it all together when possible.
8/30/2011 11:47:00 AM Report AbuseI think that your idea of walnuts and raisons and a few chocolate chips is a great idea. I have all three in my refrigerator.
8/30/2011 09:59:54 AM Report AbuseMaybe "these diets" don't work for you that's why everyone has to find a healthy diet that works for them, this may work for some but not all.
9/26/2010 07:04:06 PM Report AbuseThis is rediculous. Our country is obese because we have all learned the wrong things from people who are not truly healthy. There is finally some fat creeping into the picture. Progress! Stop counting calories people. These diets don't work and I feel bad for all the people who keep taking poor advice, it doesn't work, they get discouraged, lose hope, and then accept being overweight and unhealthy.
7/8/2010 12:04:39 AM Report Abuse