It is true - when you are counting calories, trying to lose weight, or obsessing over every calorie you put in your mouth - 100 calorie snack packs seem like the easiest route to go.
But what happens instead is you overeat, eat garbage, processed food, and feel like crap.
The 100 calorie packs are all processed crap which keep you coming back for more. your blood sugar spikes and drops, spikes and drops. They are all junk food packs - cookies, chips, etc.
If you really want to make a change, you have to drop the processed food, the junk food, and garbage. You have to eat whole, nutritious food. Your staples have to change. You cannot keep eating crap and think anything is going to change.
You are lying to yourself and you are going to be disappointed.
Here are some combinations of things that will make a good, filling snack for about 100-150 calories.
You will stay full longer and inn the long run, be happier. I truly feel that all the chemicals and fake ingredients in our food today really beat up our chemical balance in our body. Whoever eats a ton of junk food and says "I feel so good right now!" Not only do you feel bad because of all the fat, sugar, and salt circulating through your body, your receptors in your brain are all messed up and you start feeling depressed. It is like withdrawals from drugs or something.
Snack combos:
Choose one:
medium apple
Baby Carrots
Whole Wheat Crackers (5 crackers)
Black Bean Chips (10 crackers)
Pear slices (1 medium pear)
1 oz pretzels
1 medium Whole wheat pita
Celery sticks
Choose one:
1 part skim string cheese
2oz Guac
Salsa
1 square dark chocolate
4 slices ham or turkey (no sugar added)
3/4 cup cottage cheese
1tbp peanut butter (all natural is better)
1/4 cup hummus
1/2 can of tuna, in water
Any two items (one from each list) will fill you up and keep you going!
Credit: Eat this, Not that - supermarket survival guide
