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Kale chips!
Hi Mike, I had to really start portion control in week 3. Kale chips, celery sticks and jicama, and later kelp noodles (with lime juice and salt or tamari) were the snacks that got me through. I just finished week 6.
Good luck to you, Margaret
Is Jicama is OK on the advanced plan? I love it but didn’t think I could eat it because it is a root vegetable.
I keep olives on hand and find that when I pop one or two in my mouth, by the time I finish eating them, I am satisfied. You could try the old-fashioned appetizer-deviled eggs, made with mustard instead of mayo. I made a batch of 12 spicy turkey meatballs last week and have one each afternoon as a snack. I used 2 oz ground almonds instead of the usual bread crumbs. 125 calories per meatball and very satisfying. I think we just have to think outside the box when it comes to eating these days. It is important to change how we think about food and about what foods we eat. The old ways of eating and snacking were not healthy, as well we all know. So, throw the old ideas out and think about new!
The reason the nuts are driving you nuts (pardon the pun) is that they have some naturally occurring sugar in them.
If you’re like me, and your addiction to sugar isn’t firmly broken, portion control with nuts can give you nightmares (it does for me) — I have to carefully measure them, and make sure I have a lot of other fibrous veggies to eat with them, or I eat them like potato chips (and they are VERY calorie dense, so that’s not good).
The hummus is kind of questionable whether or not it’s on the plan or not — it’s primarily chick peas with a little ground sunflower seeds and a dash of lemon. Chick peas are not on the Advanced Plan, so be careful with portions.
Just realize that these foods represent a danger to self-control and respect them, and you should be fine.
Get almonds and walnuts in the shell. It slows down how quickly you eat them because you have to crack the shell and pick out the nut. I also buy habanero and chili/lemon pistachios in the shell. Since they are rather spicy I end up eating far less than when eating the regular pistachios. I recently found unsalted roasted white chickpeas which are 102 calories for one ounce. They’re crunchy and tasty but not that good where you’d want to eat too many. I find 1/2-1 oz plenty. Also, keeping cut-up, raw vegetables (carrots, celery, cauliflower, broccoli, radishes, etc.) in a container also makes for a quick and healthy snack.