Ever wondered why you just can’t resist those unhealthy snacks? Join me on a journey of self-discovery as we unravel the importance of intentional snacking.
We're unmasking the villain that is mindless snacking and its impact on our health. From apples, bananas, to hard-boiled eggs, we're dishing out 15 fat-burning alternatives that are not only good for your body but also easy on your pocket. These readily available snacks come with incredible health benefits that might just surprise you. Let's transform the way you snack, one bite at a time!
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Ever wondered why you just can’t resist those unhealthy snacks? Join me on a journey of self-discovery as we unravel the importance of intentional snacking.
We're unmasking the villain that is mindless snacking and its impact on our health. From apples, bananas, to hard-boiled eggs, we're dishing out 15 fat-burning alternatives that are not only good for your body but also easy on your pocket. These readily available snacks come with incredible health benefits that might just surprise you. Let's transform the way you snack, one bite at a time!
Find episode links, notes and artwork at:
https://blog.dirobi.com
This show is for informational purposes only.
None of the information in this podcast should be construed as dispensing medical advice.
These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. These products are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease.
Welcome to the DiRobi Health Show. Let's talk about snacking. Don't you just love a good snack? It's kind of nice to take a break, eat something tasty. And yet snacks can either add to or take from our intentional health routine, and so they need to be addressed. It makes a lot more sense for us to be intentional about our snacking, to have snack foods ready to go.
Speaker 1:I don't think it makes sense for most people to just consider all snacks the devil and to eliminate snacking entirely from their life. At the same time, I see too many of my friends and family who aren't intentional snackers, and what happens is, when food is available, food gets eaten. And when we're out and about sometimes I mean even like the taste testing at Costco and other stores is just kind of mindless snacking. Right, you're not eating something that you decided to eat, you're trying something that someone else put in front of you. Sure, it's just one little cracker with a bunch of cheesy goop on top. However, by the time you've gone around the whole store, you have taken in an extra 500 calories, and that actually does matter. And so, personally, I'm trying to do better on my snacking and not eat food just because it's in front of me and especially avoid unhealthy snacks and to have some really good, tasty snacks in the house so they're ready to go and when I've got a craving between meals I can eat something that I know is not going to derail my health plan but is actually going to add to it. So number one on my list and, by the way, we've got a post we've already created at blogdairobicom slash 15 snacks that burn fat fast. Now, you won't remember that. I bet I wouldn't. However, if you go to the blog and just search something like snacks or snacks that burn fat, you'll find this content there, as well as a really pretty infographic with all 15 of the snacks that we've identified as really good ones. Of course, that's not an extensive list with every healthy snack in the world, but I think principle number one is simply to cut out bad snacks, as we've talked about before.
Speaker 1:On the show, the average person is 40 pounds overweight after 20 years by eating just a tiny little amount of 200 extra calories per day. That's what does it. That's why most countries are generally obese. Of course, that's as an average. Some people gain more than that, some people gain less, and yet the stats generally tell us that just 200 extra calories a day is the difference between long term weight gain or maintaining a healthy body weight. And so snacking can literally make the difference in slowly becoming overweight or hitting our health goals. So I think the number one snack you can argue with me if you wish, but I bet the number one snack is apples, and the reason why?
Speaker 1:Now again that it's not for everyone. I understand there's people with fructose malabsorption, people with problems digesting apples may be the devil and actually cause them pain. That's why we have the product eat anything, and apples is one of the main determiners to do a quick personal test on if you have some level of malabsorption issues. If you eat an apple and you have pain, there's a very good chance you have fructose malabsorption. Now, this is not a scientific diagnosis but a good indicator. And then if you take one of our eat anything and then eat an apple and you don't have pain, I probably ought to just keep using our eat anything and it'll help you with that issue.
Speaker 1:Now, blatant pitch here aside, apples, generally speaking, are a very healthy snack. They're low in calories, they're very filling and they're packed with good nutrients, and they are a healthy carb and they're convenient you can throw one in your purse, your bag, your pocket, head out the door and you have a snack ready to go. That is perfectly healthy. If it's on organic apple, you may want to wash it really well or even peel it. However, generally speaking, it's a good size, it's filling, it's nutritious.
Speaker 1:Apples are number one on our list. Number two is bananas. Now I realize bananas are much higher on the glycemic index. However, they have so much nutritional value, they're so tasty that bananas have just got to have a place up there Again, the convenience factor. They come in their own wrapper. They're very nutritious, very convenient and they are delicious. Number three is peppers. And, by the way, with as much heat as you can stand, this does make a difference to your metabolism. If you eat hot peppers, they're not only a delicious filling snack. I especially love them with hummus. You know, dip them into hummus, you have a tremendous snack right there and if you can stand them with a little heat, you're actually getting a metabolism and fat burning boost as well.
Speaker 1:Number four is grapefruit. When's last time you had a grapefruit? Don't smother it in brown sugar. I like a little brown sugar on my grapefruit, but a little right or none. Really, the natural flavor of grapefruit is fantastic and as we cut down on sugar and our desire to sweeten things, we start to enjoy more of the tart flavors of lemon and grapefruit. So try it with no sweetener, no artificial sweetener, no brown sugar. Just try it as is. And if you just can't stand it but you really want to eat grapefruit because of all the health benefits, then sweeten it very lightly.
Speaker 1:Watermelon this is not one of my favorites, but it's on the list because it's very healthy for you, as we know. It's hydrating, it's got great phytonutrients and, of course, so many people love it that it makes our list of being a terrific snack. Eggs Hard-boiling some eggs and keeping them in the fridge is a really great snack Only 60 calories, healthy fat, healthy protein filling. Before I go golfing, sometimes I will take the shell off of a couple of boiled eggs, drop them into a baggie, smother them in a way with some Himalayan salt, and it just really hits the spot a couple of hours later when I'm hungry and want a healthy snack.
Speaker 1:Number seven is Whole Food Bars. Now, this is where we start to get a little sketchy, right, because everything I just told you has no ingredient list and, generally speaking, foods with no ingredient list, the stuff around the edges of the aisle, the apples, the bananas, the fruits, the veggies there's no ingredient list. Ingredient apple, ingredient nuts, ingredient celery right. However, in this day and age, there are some healthy bar makers and if you read the ingredients, you'll find out that they're not loaded up with Sugars and bad ingredients, and so there is a variety. Be a label reader, but find those whole food bars. And, yes, modern science is doing us a favor by packaging a processed food. Yes, but these ones that aren't loaded with sugar and they're made with health foods are super Convenient. It's the type of thing you can throw in your pack and take on a hike, and they'll keep for a long time, unlike some of these other natural foods. As a matter of fact, I don't recommend throwing bananas into your pack and going on a long hike, because it's just going to smoosh into all your other gear before you're done. So A packaged whole food bar that's made well is a great snack. The next one is going to be controversial Milk.
Speaker 1:Now, I understand some people just can't drink milk, and if that's, you obviously don't drink milk if it's going to bother you, if you're lactose intolerant, back to our eat anything. If you take it anything, I will help you digest lactose. However, generally speaking, if you tolerate it, milk is a great snack. Now, the less processed the better, and so you know I go for whole food milk. I'm sorry, a full fat, whole milk. We don't do 2%, we don't do skim. Now we also don't drink a whole lot, right, that's the key. I'd rather have a little bit of a whole, lightly processed milk, then a lot of skim milk. That's me. So, generally speaking, as often as possible and as many food areas as possible, we just want the least amount of processing, and so if you like milk, it is not the devil. Just don't have. You know, I don't. I don't have more than probably a cup a day, but I have a cup a day of whole milk, full fat, and so I have a lot of protein.
Speaker 1:Nuts now, there's a variety of really terrific nuts. Mixed nuts are a great snack. Almonds are a great snack. I love macadamias. The key is again, not too many. Nuts are high in calories, high in fat, and they're so delicious that it's really easy to pound on calories. Just because it's whole food doesn't mean you can't have too much, right? Too many calories is too many calories, whether they come from a chocolate bar or nuts. So you do have to be a label reader again and the label reading you're doing this time is how much fat, how many calories, and you may be surprised it is. It is wise to at some point Measure out two ounces of nuts so you know what two ounces of nuts looks like. I have a little container, little containers, in my pantry that I know half full is two ounces of nuts and that's how I tell. I'm not sure if it's like an eighth of a cup, it's around that. If you've got a scale, figure out what two ounces of nuts is, because two ounces of nuts is a terrific snack.
Speaker 1:Number ten is celery. Celery is an anti caloric, meaning it takes more calories to digest. Then you're going to get out of it. So if you're on a diet as a celery is a fantastic snack. It's crunchy and satisfying. It's mostly just vitamins and water, but it's a filling, satisfying snack. Number eleven, which could be number one for antioxidant and overall value health value is blueberries. Blueberries are a phenomenally healthy, high on antioxidant snack.
Speaker 1:I highly recommend organic. When the EWG tests blueberries that are not organic, they'll find literally sometimes over a hundred chemicals in the blueberries. They're a thin skinned Food, obviously, and when calories, calories, when chemicals are added to them, they just suck it up. I just highly recommend organic blueberries and try to have them daily. If you can Number twelve is Greek yogurt, again high in fat, high in calories, so you can't have too much.
Speaker 1:It's another one that you want to know your portion sizes, but Greek yogurt is a delicious, satisfying snack. Now do not get the ones they add a bunch of sugar to. As a matter of fact, back to what I said about enjoying tart and sour flavors. Those are great flavors when you kind of overcome your sweet tooth and just adjust to them and just eat them slowly and mindfully, as we teach in our DiRobi undiet. Greek yogurt is a fantastic snack, especially when done in the right quantities, amounts and not too often.
Speaker 1:Number thirteen might surprise you. It's green tea. Might not sound like a snack, but you know what sometimes a thin drink like a green tea actually is satisfying and satiating. So again back to you, those of you that are currently on a diet. A cup of green tea might do the trick better than food in terms of making you feel satiated without adding any calories. And the same is true with number 14, which is iced water.
Speaker 1:Number 15 is a semi-duplicate on the list almonds. Yet almonds, of all the nuts, are easy to get, they keep well, they are feeling convenient and provide energy from healthy fats. And so having almonds. You know, in my cupboard we have mix nuts, we have almonds, we have macadamias and we have cashews, and all of them have slightly different health benefits. The cashews I like for the high selenium content, which I'm often low on when I get my blood work done. So I need to purposely find foods that have selenium. And so almonds separately are a terrific snack on their own. Not too many. Eight to 12 almonds is a fairly satiating snack which won't blow up your health routine Again, high calorie, high fat food.
Speaker 1:So you got to be careful. You generally don't eat from the bag. Take them out of the bag, know how many you're going to eat and only eat that much. And that is true generally for snacking. Never eat from bags, never eat snacks from bowls. Be a proactive snacker.
Speaker 1:Who's, you know, spending some time determining? Am I snacking because it's just emotional? Am I snacking just because I saw food and I want to eat it? Or is this part of my health plan. I'm snacking because I'm legitimately hungry. I had a great workout this morning. I have true hunger pains. I'm not emotionally eating and I want to eat this food, and I'm going to eat healthy food that contributes to my health, not mindlessly eat a snack that is taking away from my health or adding too many calories or sugars or the other negatives that come with unhealthy snacking. So I hope these thoughts have made you think, given you some great ideas and been useful to you and, as I mentioned, we have a great infographic this entire list on our blog at blogdiorobicom Meantime.
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Speaker 1:I enjoy doing it. I hope you pick up things that help you in your own health and everything that we do here on the podcast. We tend to back up on our blog, blogdiorobicom. Oftentimes I add the podcast to a blog post that will then have a summary of the blog, of the podcast. I mean often infographics, quotables, etc. So that you can really dive in a little further. So I hope you're enjoying them and getting all you can out of them and make sure and check out the blog for additional resources and information. The latest being are lose 10 pounds in 10 days, which you'll find right there in the sidebar, which is a fantastic guide 14 pages, mostly pictures, easy to understand and it works. Again, great testimonials, including one recently where a lady did it and lost exactly 11 pounds in 10 days. So very gratifying for me, cause I put a lot of effort into that guide and you'll find that on the sidebar at blogdiorobicom. And with that I will end the episode by wishing you health and success.