Healthy snacks between meals play an important role in maintaining energy levels throughout the day, controlling hunger, and can help you achieve and maintain a healthy body weight. Consuming a healthy snack between meals will help control cravings and reduce the likelihood of eat impulsively because you’ve allowed yourself to become too hungry between meals. You want to choose low carbohydrate snacks that will fill you up and give you lasting energy, without spiking your blood sugar. When you are hungry between meals, here are a few example of foods you can choose for a snack.
Serious Sweet Cravings? For some people sugar cravings may be quite strong in the beginning. With time these cravings will decrease. If you find yourself seriously craving something sweet, try a small piece of dark chocolate, dried dates or baked fruit.