Snacking (or managing the thing that derails me most)

I have my inspirational 12WBT friend, Mary Crea (Splasharama), to thank for this post. 

I have always had a problem with snacking. I can have a beautifully measured out, stick-to-it-100% breakfast, lunch and dinner and then wave goodbye to all my hard work with uncontrolled snacking.

Last round Mary helped me enormously with her tips, advice and blog post on snacking.  This last week I have fallen off the rails for a number of reasons including snacking (which I'll write about in another post).   

In getting real with myself, I realise I can no longer pretend that my snacks are less than the amount of calories they actually are or less than the amount I actually eat. 

I don't eat the type of snacks I once did, I've tried new things thanks to Michelle's 12WBT and Mary's list of snacks and like Mary, not everything is completely Mish-approved.  My purpose in listing them below is to get a real grip on exactly what goes in my mouth, what portion I need to measure, and to plan snacks a whole lot better so that I stick to my 1200 calories per day.  Now that I've done this exercise, I feel more in control but also horrified by what I did before and the BS I told myself.

I highly recommend you do a list for yourself of things you actually eat.  The good, the bad, the ugly to get a real handle on what you are doing.  As a starting point, here's my list and Mary also has a great one on her blog at splasharama.blogspot.com

SNACK LIST

 

SWEET	cals		SAVOURY	cals
Fruit			Vegetables
Banana (medium)	105		Carrot (medium)	45
Apple (medium)	65		Celery stick	5
Orange (medium)	68
Strawberries - 250gm punnet	63		Crackers
Blueberries – 150gm punnet	78		Sunrice Multigrain 5 thin rice cakes	96
Dates – Fresh 1x 10gm	26		Vita Weat Lunch SoyLin Slices 1	78
			Ryvita Original 1 cracker	35
Muesli Bars & Biscuits			Spreads
Uncle Toby’s Crunchy Choc Bars	86		Honey            2 teasp	41
Special K bars	90		Vegemite       1 teasp	11
Be Natural Trail Bars Berry	111		Marmalade    2 teasp	41
Sunrice Apple/Cinnamon Rice Cake	38		Hommous      1 tblsp	37
Dairy			Bread 1 slice
Cottage Cheese lite - 1tblsp	18		Raisin toast regular slice tip top	97
Ricotta Cheese lite   - 25gm	26		9 Grain Multigrain	92
Butter                       - 2 teasp	62		Lawsons Grain Bread	145
Yoplait Forme Yoghurt - 1 tub	70		Mountain Bread	70
Skim Cappuccino 1 med 300ml	96
Lindt 70% chocolate 10gm piece	52		Popcorn Coolpak Sgl Pkt 20gm	94
Trail Mix Sanitarium ¼ cup	188		Almonds Raw 10 nuts	72