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A Healthy Snacking Strategy You Won’t Struggle ‘Sticking To’
Abandon those insincere or strained dieting tactics
There is nothing more frustrating than starting your day eating perfect meals, made up of plenty of vegetables, whole grains, and healthy proteins, only to find yourself in those moments in-between, reaching for unhealthy snacks that we know we don’t need but can’t help but to reach for.
“I wish I didn’t eat that ice cream.”
“I shouldn’t have had that chocolate cake.”
“Why did I reach for that candy bar? Now I feel awful.”
These are very natural incidences, thoughts that many others and even myself have experienced. If it’s happened already, sometimes kuchisabishii is the best way to move on, but before we get to those points, how should we address these unwanted snacking habits?
Some health gurus will insist that the solution is to cut out snacks altogether, and that eating in-between meals is the enemy of all our health endeavors. I have met a good number of intermittent fasting fanatics who will praise the 6-hour eating time frame and lecture on why snacking is a social construct that is actually destroying our health.
