6 Snacking Mistakes That Hinder Your Weight Loss
An area where many people fail on their weight loss journey is when it comes to snacks. Snacking mistakes can set you back hundreds of calories, if not more, when you’re not paying attention. This can be anything from an afternoon snack to a late-night snack before bed. If you aren’t planning ahead and understanding the concepts I’m about to share with you, it can cause your weight loss progress to slam on the brakes.
I want you to reach the target weight that you set out to hit, so in an effort to provide some assistance, I have come up with six snacking mistakes you may be making that could be hindering your weight loss. Read them. Understand them. Prevent them. And you’ll see the number on the scale going down (assuming the rest of your nutrition is on point).
1. Eating directly from the packaging
One of the most common snacking mistakes that people make is eating directly from the source’s packaging. For instance, if you are eating “just a few” of something but you don’t “keep your hand out of the cookie jar,” you will be tempted to continue reaching in and grabbing more.
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What you should be doing is taking out the appropriate serving size (which I will touch on next) and then sealing the box or bag back up and put it away.
2. Not paying attention to portion sizes
Piggy-backing off of what I said in #1, you need to pay attention to serving sizes. Not only is it important to NOT eat directly from the packaging, but you also don’t want to simply dump a bunch of something out into a bowl and dig in. When you are striving for weight loss, you can’t afford to make snacking mistakes and consume multiple servings of something without making sure it fits into your daily food plan.
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Look at the label and see how much is considered a serving. Check to make sure it’s an option that fits your caloric intake for the day as well as your daily macros. And if it does, correctly portion the snack out. Even eating too many healthy snacks can cause you to gain weight.
3. “Snack-size” isn’t always a good option
I don’t want to downplay the effort some brands are making in attempting to improve the health of their consumer by creating a “snack-size” option that, in a nutshell, provides single-serving options of their product. This is awesome, and it definitely can help people with their weight loss. However, this is also a common snacking mistake simply because the marketing behind the product is making it sound like it’s a healthy or healthier option — and it may not be.
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Just because you have a “snack-size” version of deliciously unhealthy cookies doesn’t magically make them healthier. It merely limits how many you’re going to eat according to the size of the single-serving packaging.
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