If you are responsible for your diet when you have proposed to lose weight, it is more or less easy to do so. You decide what you eat, the quantities, how you cook it. But … what happens when we go to a birthday? Or to see the family with the consequent binge it entails? Or what do we do if we feel like going to the movies and we are unable to avoid popcorn?
Laura had the same doubts, so she took some measures to prevent these visits and events from having an impact on her diet. In this video, she proposes you to replace any copious snack with a healthy hummus with raw vegetables. Not sure how to prepare it? No problem, here is the recipe for chickpea hummus in a super light version.
If you have guests or your grandmother has been insisting for days and days that you go to her house for a snack, here are 15 ideas to snack without getting fat. For example, choose a skimmed yogurt with fruit compote, a few sandwiches of salmon, cottage cheese and dill on cucumber slices, a kiwi skewers with dark chocolate or pear and ham.
Would you like to go to the movies? It's okay, your only concern should be to choose well among all the options on the billboard and prepare a small portion of popcorn at home. With little oil and salt they will be delicious. Also, do you know that they provide one gram of fiber per cup? On the other hand, those in theaters can be a real "caloric bomb" because of the fats and extras they add.
And if you have a family meal planned … Try to talk to the host beforehand so he can prepare something more "soft" for you. You do not have to be the “disowned” of the family but, as you will have seen in our section with 100% guilt-free recipes, there are many traditional recipes that can be lightened only with a few small changes. Chocolate cake, cheesecake, Russian salad, low-calorie biscuits, chocolate cookies and even a delicious strawberry tiramisu. And all with less calories than the traditional ones!
Many traditional recipes can be prepared in their lighter version
Also, a good way to avoid the temptations that we ourselves can put ourselves, the best thing is not sweets or caloric foods. Make yours the phrase "eyes that do not see, heart that does not feel" and you will see how everything will be easier. If you don't have temptations to fall into, you won't even think about it.
In your case, what is your trick to avoid falling into the temptation of sweets and snacks?
