between meals snacks?

[Eddie]

What do you folks who are trying to lose weight or maintain do for between meals snacks?

I'm trying to eat better, which I think has helped for the most part and isn't too difficult at meal time.

But what I struggle with is between time. I used to pick up some chips, a couple of cookies, or a donut when it was between meal times and I was hungry. Now I don't want to blow the effort at the gym by eating the wrong stuff when I'm working on getting in shape and dropping a few pounds.

What are some relatively easy, low fat/calorie/etc. snack items that work to fill you up?

It would be nice of some of them actually tasted good and didn't suck too.

[marsupial]

Fruit
Raw veggies with reduced fat dip
94% fat free microwave popcorn
nf yogurt

[TripletDaddy]

Stuff that I love:

1. pieces of fresh fruit....a banana, an orange or some tangerines, strawberries, blueberries.

2. Yogurt...mix in fresh fruit

3. A couple of tablespoons of peanut butter. Mix in a banana, some nuts, blueberries

4. A string cheese

5. A couple of hard boiled eggs

Avoid candy, soda, cookies, donuts, trips to starbucks, and the phony diet stuff like fruit smoothies, which are major calorie bombs.

[beefytee]

Drink water.

It will have you walking more (to the bathroom), so it is a win-win.

[Eddie]

Drink water.

It will have you walking more (to the bathroom), so it is a win-win.

Can I really take healthy diet advice from a guy with "beefy" in his name?

Actually - the water isn't a bad idea. I have been drinking more water but it only goes so far. At some point my stomach wants something in it that will last more than 15 minutes.

[Pheidippides]

Diet soda
Beef Jerky
Rice Cakes
Apples

Jerky is kind of expensive, as my wife keeps reminding me.

[Pheidippides]

3. A couple of tablespoons of peanut butter. Mix in a banana, some nuts, blueberries

Dude, that's a calorie bomb right there. My peanut butter is 180 cals per two tablespoons.

[cougjunkie]

My wife bought a big bag of Apple-Cinnamon granola from Costco (I think its Bear Naked brand). I take straight yogurt and mix that in then dip a banana in it. In the words of Dora "DELICIOSO!"

[TripletDaddy]

Dude, that's a calorie bomb right there. My peanut butter is 180 cals per two tablespoons.

peanut butter is great when you are working out/lifting. Calories are not the enemy. Excessive calories without exercise are the enemy.

[Pheidippides]

peanut butter is great when you are working out/lifting. Calories are not the enemy. Excessive calories without exercise are the enemy.

I can think of forty foods that give you that much protein with fewer calories and fat, lifting or now.

It's all about numbers. I don't care how much you exercise if your calorie intake is more than the calories burned. And as a snack (which I think was the original question)? Not a good way to keep the calories down. Cf a full serving of jerky (80 calories) or an apple (80).

[TripletDaddy]

I can think of forty foods that give you that much protein with fewer calories and fat, lifting or now.

It's all about numbers. I don't care how much you exercise if your calorie intake is more than the calories burned. And as a snack (which I think was the original question)? Not a good way to keep the calories down. Cf a full serving of jerky (80 calories) or an apple (80).

then why do you own any peanut butter at all if it is all about the numbers?

[Pheidippides]

then why do you own any peanut butter at all if it is all about the numbers?

Because the kids and wife eat it.

[Sea Chicken]

Peanut butter is one of the greatest foods ever invented and the world is a better place because of it.

[TripletDaddy]

Peanut butter is one of the greatest foods ever invented and the world is a better place because of it.

It is too bad that no fitness, muscle, or training mags and articles agree with you.

[Sea Chicken]

It is too bad that no fitness, muscle, or training mags and articles agree with you.

There's more to life than fitness, muscle and training.