Can I have some chocolate, please? This may come as a surprise, but the short answer is yes! A few handful of M & M’s or a small bar of giggles will not destroy your program. In fact, the chocolate and many other snacks an important role in your weight loss / maintenance program play.

Eating between meals not only your cravings for chocolate or other sweets to satisfy, it also helps keep your metabolic level, which helps you burn more calories throughout the day. Although an occasional piece of chocolate, when planning snacks fine, fruits and vegetables is best. The composition of this food – water, vitamins, proteins, carbohydrates – the body makes them harder to digest. Fruits and vegetables, with their natural enzymes, which lasted longer summary. Although all fruits and vegetables are great, the following guidelines will help you plan your program.

The snack of the morning: The key to this snack, the body with energy. A bowl of strawberries is a satisfying sweet treat. The strawberries provide fuel, your energy and your brains keep it high if your body movements to work the afternoon. (For an extra treat, serve with a little fat free cool whip)

The afternoon snack: an apple in the middle of the day is an optimal fat-burning foods. The apples a beautiful combination of water and vitamins, to keep water in the muscles and keep the lichaamshydraten, which is essential since our bodies are 78 percent water.

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