Dieting and Fitness Snacks

Dieting and exercising to stay fit will make you hungry. Dieting usually means to reduce the intake of calories while exercising will increase your body’s desire for more fuel to burn. If you cut off the fuel intake on one side and increase the need for fuel on the other side, you are left starving.

Being a smart dieter you have many options. The list below will show you a lot of healthy snacks that a) taste great and b) carry only little calories with them. So, don’t be shy and give these suggestions a try.

Snacks with Almost No Calories

Celery sticks
Lettuce
Cucumbers
Green peppers
Cauliflower
Broccoli
Mushrooms

Snacks with approx. 25-30 Calories

1 small tangerine
1 small tomato
1/2 cup watermelon
1/4 cantaloupe
1 medium carrot
1 cup popcorn
12 pretzel sticks

Snacks with approx. 35-45 Calories

1 medium peach
1/2 small banana
1 medium nectarine
1/2 grapefruit
1/2 cup skim milk
1/4 cup plain yogurt
3 saltine crackers

Snacks with approx. 50-60 Calories

4 small shrimp
1 small apple
15 grapes
12 cherries
1 cup strawberries
1/4 cup cottage cheese
1 small orange
As you can see this list provides you with a huge variety of snacks and you do not have to eat lots of calories at the same time. Combine snacks like Yoghurt and fruit and you have the perfect post workout snack with protein and vitamins and whatever else comes with it by default.

Run, Run, Runaway …

This is in one way a personal posting as well as a fitness related posting. I have been trying to lose weight and to live healthier overall. I am doing regular workouts 5-6 times a week and I am eating at least half-way healthy. Meaning, I do not necessarily lookout of what I am eating, but I manage to stay away from all Fast Food, candy, and most other really unhealthy things.

I have been working out and the majority of what I was doing was running. I just love to run. I turn on my iPod Shuffle and run for somewhere between 5 and 7 Miles at a time. Running helps me to completely turn out my surroundings and to get away from the stress of it all. Have you seen that baseball movie “For the Love of the Game” with Kevin Costner? He is a great pitcher and is able to blur our the busy stadium and the yelling of the fans and fully concentrate on throwing that ball. Running for me has a similar effect. When I start a run I still think about work and business and life and as I run along it all slowly fades away. Even the music fades away to a certain degree, but is still there.

So, I run along and it is just an awesome process. When I reach my goal on the treadmill or slowly get back closer to my house I “return” from being mentally absent. My mind is clear and fresh and I am full of energy. Running is the only exercise where I experience this and so it has become an addiction to run. I feel down when I cannot run for more than one day in a row.