License to Snack Jack
After careful analysis by professionals and my own contemplative soul searching I’ve come to the root of my weight problem. Here’s the scientific equation that has been proven by the empirical data of my chunka cudginess.
Peasant stock + ovaries + gainful employment + sugary + sodium + crunchity + Hashimoto’s Disease + diets + denial + portion blindness + elastic – three way mirror = 39 YEAR OLD FEMALE W/>30LBS TO LOSE.
I am not a person who can tell what a serving is and “a fist full” of food isn’t really the best way to eat SO here’s a little visual.
This handy dandy Portion Reference Guide comes to us from the people at Frito-Lay and the American Dietetic Association. They’ve got a new online resource called License to Snack. It’s a totally free. The website hopes to make us feel better about snacking. See it says, Kiki – snacking is okay as long as you don’t eat a bathtub full. It says Kiki - one snack pack can fit into your plan. Kiki - we said ONE. It says Kiki - don’t eat like you have flapjacks for brains.
Okay it doesn’t say any of that. But click over to use the BMI calculator or see how many calories you can eat a day to maintain your weight. I personally liked how it compared your favorite snacks to see which might be the best choice. I am obsessed with the how many calories I burn doing certain things and the site figures it out for you. For health nuts like us License to Snack is a better choice for your computer than gossip websites… Kiki.
I am printing out this Portion Reference Guide on my work computer so as not to use my own ink cartridge. They cost a million dollars and I’m trying to cut back. Feel free to print one yourself and post it at your desk, or on the fridge, or have it tatooed on your arm next the longitude and latitude of your children’s birthplaces. It’s all the rage.
So here’s my question.. do we include our favorite snacks in our diets and limit the portion OR give them up all together? (Please don’t say give ‘em up.. please don’t say give ‘em up.)
I owe my sucess to snacking. Seriously. I know at 10:30 a.m. and 3 p.m. I’m going to start feeling hungry. If I deny that feeling, by meal time I’m famished and eat everything that does not move. But if I enjoy a sensible snack (carrots, yogurt, LF string cheese, etc.) it helps tide me over to the next meal.
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This portion business is going to be the death of me.
Hi Ms. Kiki! Can I have a bathtub full of snacks?
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they always look so FRIGGIN TINY.
The driving metaphor on the frito lays site hurt my head and confused me.
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My favourite snacks have to be included or else I will go la la! It’s all about moderation right. Sounds so easy but of course it isn’t. I ate a 100g bar of dark orange chocolate last night…. I started to feel sick of it half way through but did I stop! No!!!!!!!!! At least it’s gone out of the house now.
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I think it depends – on you and on the snack. For me, a person with absolutely no self control, there are several foods that I cannot buy. I cannot allow them to exist in my house. Or car. Or office. Or purse. Because I will eat them, and I will eat them all. Mainly I’m talking about Pop Tarts here, but there’s quite the list. So I say it depends.
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i’m not eating a deck of cards, i don’t care what anyone says. the ace of spades is made of poison.
Snacks rule! Portions…drool? I also fight the portion battle. I swear my bowls/plates expand when food is placed on them.
To “diet” without snacking is to fail. Depriving yourself of your favorite things only leads to major binging on said things later down the line. If there’s something I really can’t “have just one” of, then it gets doled out into smaller packages and my husband is ordered to hide the rest. (If it can be frozen, it goes in the deep freeze – it’s hard to eat rock hard Butterfingers. *smirk*)
It’s all about including your favorite snacks… or treats in my case like really good chocolate!
I bought myself a cheap scale to measure my portions. Amazing how I just know my portions are the correct size. Amazing how they’re always considerably bigger than they should be. And I wonder why I can’t lose the extra lbs.! POOH!
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I do well with snacks, for a while. They’re great, when getting through the work day. Of course, sometimes I have trouble when I get home! Though I wasn’t hungry all day, due to careful snack and meal planning, as soon as I get home (where all the food is stored), I get crazy! Those are the weeks when I’m in the red, WW points-wise. But some weeks I do just fine. Darn it! I have no answer.
I think you ought to be nominated for the Nobel Prize in mathematics for the amazing equation that you started out this post with. It is a stroke of pure genius! About snacking . . . I’m reading a book, “potatoes not prozac” which says that sugar/carb sensitive people should NOT snack, but should eat three meals a day. If you want to eat your favorite snack under the ‘potatoes not prozac’ plan, you eat your snack during a meal. Which means it’s not a snack. But your blood sugar levels stay more even with the suggested method.
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I do just fine. Darn it! I have no answer.