Are You Guilty of Naughty Nibbles?

Are You Guilty of Naughty Nibbles?

By Jorge Cruise, LifeScript Fitness Coach
Monday, June 16, 2008

Bran flakes for breakfast. An orange for a mid-morning snack. Salad with grilled chicken for lunch. Almonds for a mid-afternoon snack. Fish, brown rice and vegetables for dinner. And yet the scale still won’t budge. Many people tell me they watch what they eat all day but still can’t manage to lose weight. What gives? It might be all those naughty nibbles you forget to account for. Do you ever snack on food samples at the grocery store? Or dip into the candy dish at work? Those seemingly insignificant calories that we like to think of as “freebies” can actually be the culprit behind some serious weight gain. Without realizing it, your tastes of soup, nibbles of bread, samples of ice cream flavors, and handfuls of jelly beans can add up to hundreds of extra calories a day. Just 100 extra calories could amount to an additional 10 pounds per year! So if you’re in the habit of taking a nibble here and there, don’t forget that every bite counts. There are no such things as food freebies!