Snack Attack! Guide to Healthy Snacks

good habits for healthLooking for low carb & low calorie snacks? Well, you’ve come to the right place. I’ve gathered a nice list of ideas for you. Many people who are on the 17 Day Diet talk to me daily through our support chat (available when you buy the app for iPhone or Android phones), and a common question is: “In the evening I get the urge to snack and I need snack ideas, can you help me?” So, here it is! Healthy snack ideas. If you’re not on the 17 Day Diet, don’t worry, this list is for anyone looking to make healthy choices.

1. Asian Lettuce Wraps by Eat Yourself Skinny

asian lettuce wrap - low carb, low calorie snack ideas - womensdietnetwork.com

2. Healthy Tuna Salad by Lift. Laugh. Love. Lauren - this can also [...]

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Flat Belly Diet

Find out how the Flat Belly Diet can help you lose 15 pounds in 32 days and learn lifetime healthy habits.
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BASICS
The basics of the diet are eating three meals and one snack a day each totaling 400 calories. You will eat 1600 calories daily with a Mediterranean-style eating plan and places an emphasis on eating real foods and avoiding processed ones. The key to the diet is eating a MUFA every meal. MUFA’s are monounsaturated fats found in nuts, seeds, dark chocolate, flax, avocado, and oils. In the Flat Belly Diet! book Coauthor and Registered Dietician Cynthia Sass explains, “research shows that MUFAs have health benefits and target belly fat. They also help control satiety, so by adding in one MUFA at [...]

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Mandarin Orange and Dark Chocolate Treat!

Oh wow! How tasty is this?! Mandarin oranges dipped in dark chocolate! Pure heaven!

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For a single serving, you will need:

1 mandarin orange
1/2 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips or Semi Sweet Baking Squares

First melt some semi-sweet or dark chocolate chips in a Double Boiler. If you don’t have a double boiler, you could use the microwave or even just a regular pan – but try not to burn the chocolate! Take a Mandarin Orange, peel it, split it into sections. Dip the sections in the chocolate. Place on a plate or piece of wax paper to harden. Sprinkle with a little sea salt if you’d like – with or without sea salt they’re going to be delicious!
Try more healthy snack ideas with this cookbook, [...]

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Satisfy my Sweet Tooth

I love desserts, snacks, and anything sweet. I love chocolate, candy, hot fudge, and everything else that doesn’t fit into a swimsuit. I have gone cold-turkey, spent days and months sans sweets. Horrible. To me, sweets are a must and with a little creativity they too can fit into a swimsuit. Try these Pomegranate-Strawberry Gummies next time your sweet tooth is calling.

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Ingredients:

1 cup Pomegranate Juice
2 cups Strawberries
5 Envelopes Gelatine
1-2 packets Stevia

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Instructions:

Slice strawberries and place into a pot over medium heat, add the juice 
Cook until the strawberries become tender, about 5-7 minutes
Pour fruit mixture into a blender, blend
Add the stevia (i used two packets since pomegranate juice is very tart), blend
Allow the mixture to cool for 5 minutes
Add gelatine, blend
Pour mixture onto a baking sheet and let it set in the fridge for one hour
Cut into shapes with [...]

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Egg Muffins – Healthy Breakfast or Snack

This is the perfect breakfast recipe to accompany the 17 Day Diet or Paleo – or any healthful eating plan. If you are on cycle one, these muffins provide cleansing vegetables and lean protein and go great with salsa.

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Ingredients:

 

16 Egg Whites
6 Eggs
1 Bell Pepper, sliced
2 cup Mushrooms, sliced
4 cups Spinach

 

1) Whisk egg whites and eggs together, 2) sauté pepper and mushrooms for three minutes, 3) add the spinach until it wilts, 4) place even amounts of vegetables in a muffin tin sprayed with cooking spray, 5) evenly spoon egg mix over the vegetables, 6) bake in a preheated oven at 350 degrees, 7) after 30 minutes remove from oven and let the muffins cool for five minutes before placing them on a cooling rack, 8) EAT.

This recipe makes 24 muffins with around 45 calories each and packed with protein. I recommend [...]

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Valentines Day Sweets

With the little self control I have, I do my best to avoid sweets. That pint of Ben and Jerry’s containing four servings and over 1000 calories is easily consumed in a night when no matter how many times I say “I’ll just have a bite.”  But in honor of Valentines Days, I have decided to make some of my favorite cookies: cake-mix cookies. But, with a little twist. Instead of the oil and eggs the recipe calls for, I will be substituting  yogurt and egg whites to cut back on fat and calories.

The traditional recipe is as follows:
1 box cake mix
1/2 c oil
2 eggs

 

 

 

 

 

Twisted Recipe:
1 box cake mix (Valentines funfetti)
1/2 cup non fat yogurt, plain or vanilla
1/2 cup egg whites

1. Mix all ingredients in a bowl until it forms a dough
2. [...]

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11 Quick + Healthy Packable Lunch Choices

Most people have a job they go to on a daily basis. And they have such busy lives they don’t have time to think about what to take to work the next day for lunch. So, they end up going to the nearest drive through and snacking on foods that will satisfy their hunger but they are pretty toxic. It’s hard to plan ahead and make food for lunch the next day ahead of time. You can even purchase handy lunch containers like these ones.

I am going to share with you a list of super easy to make lunches that are healthy and they will satisfy your hunger. No cooking necessary.

1. Adult Lunchable – Cheese slices or cubes, salami slices, whole wheat crackers and apple slices. If you have one of those tupperware pieces that have divided cubbies that [...]

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Healthy Recipe Share – Garlic Chicken

Hey there everyone! Been a busy week for me! How about everyone else? I hope you’re all having a good December and keeping up with your diets and fitness routines as best as you can!
I was thinking of what to write about and I thought a yummy recipe share would be nice! And since a lot of you are 3 Day Diet users, I thought I would share with you a recipe that would be good for when you are on the 4 days off part of the diet. If you aren’t a 3 Day Diet user then this recipe is just an all around healthy go-to recipe. Garlic Chicken and Vegetables! Feel free to add some brown rice to go along with it if you need some carbs.

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INGREDIENTS:
1 boneless skinless chicken breast
salt & black pepper to taste
10 cloves garlic, [...]

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Goodbye Hostess – This is good news for our health

I woke up this morning to the news that Hostess is closing up shop! WOW! That’s shocking! I haven’t eaten a Hostess product in about 3+ years (actually this is a guess, because I really can’t remember!)… but it still strikes a sad chord in me. Not because I want to eat these products or crave them, but just the iconic value that Hostess had in my life… growing up I LOVED the cupcakes, the donuts (“Donettes”), the Ho-Ho’s…. when I think of them in my mouth now though, I feel kinda queasy! Too sweet for my taste! But the memories are good times with my friends eating Ho-Ho’s, laughing and having a good time.

Nowadays I wouldn’t ever eat these products… unless I was starving! And there was nothing else to eat, I might. They just are nutrition-less… if that’s a word. [...]

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Pre and Post Work-out Fuel Recipes + Circuit Workout Routine

Working out is hard to do. First it takes the motivation to get out there and do it, and then it takes the energy to get the most out of it. I have talked about motivation in a previous post here. But for energy, we need fuel – and that fuel is food, of course. But not just any food. Certain foods are great for providing work-out fuel. And I am going to share with you a couple recipes for pre or post workout fuel. These recipes are also found in our Flat Belly Diet Coach App for iPhone. The first is one of my absolute favorites, toast with nut butter and banana slices! I’ve been munching on this since I was a kid and its super tasty and full of carbs, healthy fats and protein. The cool thing about nut butter toast is you can do any kind of [...]

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