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Snacking
BONUS TIP! Use hemp or brown rice protein powder:
suitable for vegans, vegetarians or anyone who wants
to boost proteins in their diet without having to consume
whey or soy proteins.
Why snacking is important
Bored with snacks?
Your Slimband
diet should include 3 meals and
Here are some delicious ideas!
®
2-3 snacks daily, with the goal of eating 1-1½ cups
1 T peanut butter with 1 small apple (slice and dip!)
of food at each meal. Snacks are a MUST in order to
1 oz low fat goat cheese with 4 slices melba toast
reach your daily nutritional requirements. Also, including
snacks in your diet is what stokes your metabolism
1 T almond butter on 2 rice cakes
to keep working steadily the entire day.
cup hummus with carrot and celery sticks
1
3
Nonfat cottage cheese with cubed melon
What does a Slimband® snack
½ cup yogurt with ¼ cup unsweetened granola
look like?
and handful of berries
10 almonds or cashews with small pear
Aim for a protein-centred snack each time.
1 small can of tuna mixed with small cubed
BUT NOT JUST PROTEIN.
pieces of apple
Pair a protein-rich food with another food group.
1 snack size protein bar
for
example:
1
protein choice (15-20 g)
+
1
or
starch or grain (i.e., 4 slices melba toast)
1
or
vegetable serving (i.e., ½ cup cooked or 1 cup raw)
1
fruit serving (i.e., ½ cup fruit)
=
Slimband
Snack Ideas!
®
A snack doesn’t have to be ‘snacky’.
10
1
almonds +
small pear
TRY THESE:
½ cup oatmeal with 1 scoop protein powder
Now you have created a Slimband
snack! It’s an
®
2 egg white omelette with 1 rice cake
optimal snack to delay stomach emptying the longest—
stoking your metabolism to give you steady blood
2 slices of turkey rolled with 1 oz. low fat cheese.
sugars, and making sure your body uses the food
Then eat with 10 grapes.
for fuel instead of storing it as fat.
SLIMBAND
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