Healthy Snack and Lunch Ideas

Someone forward you this email? No Sweat! Sign up here to get your own If you're having trouble viewing this email, click here Follow Us Healthy Snack and Lunch Ideas The food you eat in the afternoon hours can add up to more calories than your breakfast and dinner combined. So if you're going to decrease calories at any time of the day, do it between noon and 6pm.  Use these healthy ideas for diet-friendly snacks and calorie-controlled lunches.   Malia Frey Weight Loss Expert Single-Serving Protein Snacks to Keep in Your Fridge Researcher Dr. Brian Wansink recommends that dieters keep at least six single servings of protein on hand at all times. His research revealed that this simple habit can help you lose weight - without significant changes to your diet or exercise program. Stock up with this list. READ NOW Share Easy Ways to Cut Calories From Your Sandwich Your sandwich may have 500 calories or more! That's way too many if you're trying to lose weight. Use this list of the best diet-friendly breads, meats, veggies and spreads to cut hundreds of calories from your favorite lunch meal. READ NOW Share The Best Protein Snack Bars for People Who Want to Get Lean Some "healthy" snack bars have more calories than a Snickers bar. It's true!  Find out which brands of snack bars you should choose and how to select the best diet-friendly bars when you shop. READ NOW Share Easy 100-Calorie Snacks to Make at Home Make and keep these super easy snack packs on hand so that you always have a diet-friendly food at your fingertips when the cravings hit. READ NOW Share How Many Calories Should Come from Snacks? Some diet-experts say that healthy snacking is essential if you want to lose weight. That may be true, but only if your snack calories fit into a daily energy balance that is programmed for effective weight loss. Find out how many calories you can eat at snack time. READ NOW Share I Want to Lose Weight Faster! So How Often Should I Eat? Have you heard about "starvation mode?"  Some dieters eat more often in order to avoid this scary situation. But the eating plan they end up using goes against the most solid evidence about weight loss. So diet expert, nutrition researcher and board certified physician Joel Fuhrman sorts fact from fiction to help you lose weight.   READ NOW Share MORE FROM ABOUT.COM • The 10 Best Foods for Your Sex Life • 5 Easy Ways to Improve Your Diet Right Now • 10 Things Women With PCOS Are Tired Of Explaining • What Is Postpartum Cardiomyopathy and What Causes It? • Your Start Doing List to Build More Muscle • The Best Foods to Eat After a Workout • What Causes Post-Exertional Malaise in ME/CFS? • 7 Tasty Ways to Use Fruit for Your Dessert Advertisement About Health   |   Follow Us: You are receiving this newsletter because you subscribed to the About Weight Loss newsletter. If you wish to unsubscribe, please click here. If you would like to unsubscribe from all newsletters sent from About.com, please send an email to optout@about.com with "Unsubscribe" as the subject line. 1500 Broadway, 6th Floor, New York, NY, 10036 © 2014 About.com - All rights reserved