ANNIE DEADMAN IS HERE TO HELP YOU, THE EASY WAY!
Put a stop to mindless snacking for good
Mid-February can be a tricky time. If you took yourself by the scruff of the neck after Christmas with a view to shaping up your diet and exercise, then it can be around this time that enthusiasm starts to wane and old habits creep back in.
Like snacking. Snacking in my book is eating when you’re bored, stressed, sad, or simply because the food is there and everyone else is doing it! It’s mindless. That alone will stop successful fat-loss dead in its tracks.
Losing body fat is about eating fewer calories than your body burns. It’s not about doing some faddy diet for a few weeks, or gorging on goji berries or doing HIIT workouts seven days a week. It’s about eating balanced meals that nourish and work with you; not food that your body has to fight against.
The words ‘healthy’ and ‘balanced’ seem so banal, don’t they? Well, try this. Find a free online calorie calculator and key in your details. It will tell you the number of calories needed each day to lose fat.
Say it was 1,400 calories per day. Divide that into three meals and one small snack (there’s a difference between official and mindless snacking!). So, roughly speaking, it could be this: 300 calories for breakfast, 400 lunch, 200 snack and 500 dinner. Of your total 1,400, about 35-40% of that should be protein. That protein will keep you full because it takes longer to digest, keeps blood sugar levels stable, regulates hunger hormones and kills sweet cravings.
Sweet cravings lead to snacking on sugary and ultra-processed foods and the more sugar you eat, the more you want. Because the more sugar in your blood, the more wild your hormone
