Healthy Snacks for the Office

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Have you ever heard someone say that snacking is bad for your waistline?

Well it’s total and utter bull!

Believe me when I say that it’s not the act of snacking that’s bad for your diet – it’s WHAT you’re choosing to snack on. Snacking, and by that I mean eating 5 to 6 small meals at day, instead of 3 large meals, is actually the best thing you can do towards your weight loss goals. Why? Because small, healthy meals actually get your furnace burning overtime – by that I’m referring to your metabolism (or the rate at which your body burns calories).

So go ahead and give in to your snack attacks – just make sure you’re choosing low fat and healthy snacks when you do. I’ll use myself as an example, every 3 hours I snack on a piece of fresh fruit, or maybe raw veggies or fat-free cottage cheese or yogurt. I also choose unsalted nuts (like almonds) and dried fruit a few times a week, a hardboiled egg white or tuna on whole grain melba toast – these are only a few of my personal favorites.

Here are a few more healthy and sustaining snacks that will fuel your workday and prevent you from pulling into a fast-food drive-thru on your way home from the office:

1. Fresh fruit salad topped with low fat granola and yogurt

2. 4 celery sticks smeared with natural almond butter

3. Apple slices dipped in low fat cottage cheese

4. Whole grain rice cakes

5. Whole grain crackers topped with low fat cream cheese

6. ½ a whole grain bagel toasted with tomatoes and feta

7. Whole grain pita triangles with humus

8. Baked lays with salsa

9. Low fat granola mixed with a scoop of low fat cottage cheese

10. A lower fat, lower carbohydrate protein bar

11. Homemade muffins made with whole wheat flour and applesauce instead of oil or butter

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