If you’re on a diet, then snacking sounds like something you want to avoid! But this isn’t the case at all – in fact, many efficient dieters use snacks as a way of making the dieting experience a lot easier on themselves. Everything from humous and carrot sticks to mashed bananas on rice cakes can be extremely tasty, and feel like normal snacks!
Sure, they’re not cookies, and whatever you get a hankering for, be it crisps or chocolate, while you work or play Foxy Bingo can be difficult to cope with if you know that eating them is going to wreck your diet. So it’s crucial to find alternatives that taste just as good, but do your body no harm whatsoever.
A lot of bodybuilders actually discard the three-meals-a-day approach to eating and in fact eat smaller meals throughout the day, in order to give themselves a constant level of energy and less downswing in between meals. This is applicable to dieting, if you want it to be.
Given that your meals are generally not going to be as heavy or as large (although some really do eat huge bowls of salad!), it’s important to balance everything out lest you end up malnourished, which is just as easy to do on a diet as it is off of one.
So finding little bits of carbs and protein is as important as getting enough vitamins; pitta bread is great, especially wholemeal, and the variety of healthy dips you can eat it with (humous, tsatsiki, and so on) means that you can have a little chips-and-dip moment without breaking out the tortilla chips and salsa!
So test out your snack ideas, because you never know – you might soon find yourself eating bananas and grapes instead of popcorn and ice cream when you’re sat in front of the TV this weekend. Don’t attack your snacks – subvert the concept and come out on top.
I found this nice to know a truely different apporch on someone who likes snacks and dieting. Very helpful.