What you eat when hunger strikes on weight loss?
Is that healthy or junkies?
It’s only our eating habits that decide our weight loss or weight gain. Right?
Choosing healthy snacks is the best way to control your appetite and cure frequent hunger.
To get slim body you do lots of experiments like workouts, yoga, dieting and drinking, but ignore small diet hacks that affect our body most.
Prefer eating low-calories, high nutrients foods during snacks to fulfill your appetite and control overeating.
So, get ready to post a hot pic on Instagram as these snacks are going to work wonder on your body if adds on your weight loss.
Feed yourself something good to look awesome.
20 Low-Calorie Snacks Ideas For Weight Loss
1). Roasted Almonds
Roast almonds lightly at 365 degrees in the oven for 12 minutes. Now sprinkle sea salt over it after cooling and enjoy a crunchy treat!
Almonds are a rich source of vitamin A & E therefore good for skin and hair. Regular eating of soaked almonds can solve your many health problems.
2). Popcorn
Popcorn is the most enjoyable evening snacks items that can help you to lose weight fast. Eat two cups air-popped popcorn with ¼ teaspoon sea salt and black pepper sprinkled over it.
These are the best replacement for high-calorie snacks.
You know that eight cups of air-popped popcorn contain 244 calories that are equal to 17 potatoes chips.
3). Roasted Banana Smash
What do you do with the ripe banana?
Discard? Right?
From today you’ll convert it into tasty snacks recipes.
Sounds awesome.
We all know that banana contains natural sugar that cut most of our sugar craving.
Roasted banana serves as wonderful guilt-free alternatives to sugar that you can use as topping on your most favorite recipes.
It put a creamy layer on toast, and sweetener in oatmeal. It’s so natural that you don’t need to miss your old sugary favorites.
Ingredients:
- 1 ripe banana
How to prepare:
- First of all, preheat the oven to 400-degree
- Peel off the banana and keep it on a parchment-lined baking sheet.
- Smash it with a fork and roast in preheated oven for 12 minutes.
- You will notice the light golden color on the top of the banana smash.
- Serve it as topping on your favorite recipes when sweet craving hits.
4). Frozen Red Grapes
Frozen grapes are best tasty appetite low calories fruits.
Eat this fruits when you feel sweet cravings and hunger strikes out of the blue in between the meals or around 4 pm or late at night.
This fruit is known as the best fat burning foods.
The most interesting things that you won’t even going to feel on weight loss as it has equal texture to ice cream.
5). Oven Baked Zucchini Chips
Salty, crispy crunchy chips. Wow!!
Do you often feel to eat such type of tasty snacks during your weight loss?
Of course, many times when eating such food is avoidable?
Zucchini is popular weight loss vegetables that continues get crispier after baking.
So, skip the processed unhealthy chips and replace them with fantastic oven baked zucchini chips.
Per serving it contain only 99 calories.
Ingredients:
- 1 large zucchini, cut into slices
- 1/3 cup whole grain breadcrumbs,
- 1/4 cup finely grated parmesan cheese
- 1/4 teaspoon black pepper
- Sea salt
- 1/8 teaspoon garlic powder
- 1/8 teaspoon cayenne pepper
- 3 tablespoons low-fat milk
How to prepare:
- Firstly, preheat oven to 425 degrees.
- Mix all the ingredients except zucchini slice.
- Now dip zucchini slice in milk and then keep it in ingredients mixture to layer all the spices on both sides.
- Press zucchini slice into crumbs to make sure it sticks on it.
- Keep zucchini on a non-stick cookie sheet and mist lightly with a non-stick cooking spray.
- Bake for 15 minutes, then turn over and continue baking for 10-15 minutes until turn golden.
- Cool them to room temperature before storing in an airtight container.
6). Blueberries
For fast weight loss, add blueberries in your daily snacks.
These fruits are packed with lots of antioxidants that speed up your fat burning mechanism and leaves your skin glowing naturally.
So, from today eat 2 bowls of blueberries daily to look sexy and healthy.
Add 1 teaspoon honey with 1/2 cup Greek yogurt in ¼ cup of blueberries for an ultra-creamy snack.
7). Baby Carrots
No doubts carrots are a rich source of beta-carotene that converts into vitamin A.
It reduces the risk of cancers, heart disease, and cataract.
Carrots are also known as fat burning fruits and cut your excess calories intake and craving. Baby carrots are easy to carry anywhere and are great for a quick carb fix.
You can consume 100 grams of carrots with 2 tablespoons of blue cheese dressing that provides around 200 calories.
8). Celery Sticks with Cream Cheese
These are another healthy and best lower calories food items that keep your appetite satisfying.
Eating certain vegetables like celery, spinach and kale make perfect snacks for you because of their water content.
tats why it leaves your stomach full and satisfying.
To add more taste, you can add cream cheese or protein-packed nut butter to celery stick.
You know that 5 small celery sticks with 60 gram of cream cheese contain less than 200 calories.
9). Beet Chips with Tzatziki Dipping Sauce
Beet chips are healthy and best to treat your evening hunger.
These are underestimated vegetables that can make perfect snacks for weight loss.
Ingredients:
For Chips
- 4 Red and golden beets
- Sea salt to taste
- 1/4 teaspoon fresh rosemary, chopped
- 1/8 teaspoon garlic powder
- 2 tbsp. extra-virgin olive oil
For Tzatziki sauce
- 1/4 cup shredded cucumber
- 1 cup Greek yogurt
- 2 cloves garlic, smashed
- 1 tablespoon dry dill
- 2 teaspoon extra-virgin olive oil
- 1/4 teaspoon Kosher or sea salt
How to prepare:
- First, preheat oven to 450 degrees
- Then peel off the beets and cut slices into 1/8- inch thick.
- Take a small bowl and combine salt, rosemary and garlic powder.
- Gently apply olive oil on beets and salt mixtures that you have collected in a bowl.
- Now, keep all beets slice onto the cooking sheet with parchment paper and spray nonstick cooking spray lightly.
- Make sure beet slice are not overlapped and touched.
- Bake for 15 minutes and turn over the sides and bake continues until turn golden for 10-15 minutes more.
- Cool at room temperature and store in airtight
Tzatziki Dip
- Take a medium shredded cucumber and squeeze its maximum water as possible.
- Now, combine, cucumber into Greek yogurt, garlic, dill, olive oil, and salt in a bowl.
- Mix until combined properly and keep it in the refrigerator until ready to serve.
10). Dates
Dates are naturally sweets and healthy snacks for weight loss.
Consume the only 2/day.
Even you can freeze them to add more taste and crunch.
11). Pistachios
This can be your favorites snacks that cause weight loss at the same time.
According to the study published in the journal of America College of Nutrition, the group who consumed salted pistachios were recorded with a lower level of triglycerides as compared to others group.
No Doubt! These are incredibly healthy and control your food cravings instantly.
12). Sweet Potato Sticks
Not only tasty but also serves as the best snacks for weight loss due to lower calories and high fibers content.
Sweet potato contains around 100 calories per serving, in comparison with high calories food such as white potatoes that contain 400-500 calories per serving.
So, if you are trying to lose some weight then this food works great.
Now I think you got it why to prefer sweet potato for weight loss snacks over others.
Ingredients:
- 1 sweet potato, peeled
- 1 tbsp. coconut oil, unrefined (melted)
- 1/4 tbsp. kosher or sea salt
How to prepare:
- Firstly, preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- Peel off sweet potato and cut into julienne strips, using a Julienne Peeler.
- Collect sticks into a bowl and add coconut oil and salt and coat them properly.
- Now, spread the sticks evenly over a large parchment lined or non-stick baking sheet.
- Stir every 10 minutes and continue to bake approximately 30 minutes until it turns
- Make sure to watch sticks closely so as not burn.
- Allow cooling completely before adding to an airtight container.
13). Natural Peanut Butter on a slice of whole-grain bread
If you eat frequent, then sure you need this snacks for weight loss.
Whole grain bread is rich in fibers and vitamins B, while nut butter is rich in proteins and healthy fats that can fulfill your food craving without eating much.
So, eat a slice of bread with peanut butter in your evening and morning snacks to reap its benefits for weight loss.
14). Cucumber with Tzatziki Yogurt Sauce
Cucumber is perfect vegetables that fit best in your weight loss diet and fulfill your empty tummy requirement without adding many calories.
Tzatziki yogurt sauce and cucumber makes it perfect snacks for weight loss that you can enjoy on fish, salads, cucumbers, or sandwiches for the delicious taste.
Ingredients:
- 1 medium cucumber, peeled, sliced in half (lengthwise)
- 1 tbsp. fresh dill, removed from stem
- ½ tbsp. black pepper
- ¼ tbsp. sea or kosher salt
- ¼ tbsp. paprika
- ½ crushed red pepper flakes, as per your taste
- 1 tbsp. freshly squeezed lemon juice
- 1 tbsp. extra virgin olive oil
- 2 cloves garlic, minced
- 1 cup Greek yogurt, fat-free, plain
- Kosher or sea salt to taste
How to prepare:
- Remove seeds from the cucumber with a spoon and diced them.
- Now, lay down all the cucumber pieces on a paper towel to drain, and sprinkle with salt.
- After 30 minutes, mix diced cucumbers and the remaining ingredients in a bowl.
- Refrigerate for few hours before serving to mix the flavor.
- Pour Tzatziki into a serving dish.
- Enjoy your snacks!
15). Pineapple
Pineapples are low in calories and high in fibers.
Eat freshly cut pineapple or mix them in low-fat yogurt or cottage cheese for perfect snacks.
This light and healthy snacks match perfectly with your small hunger.
16). Kale Chips
A perfect treat for people who love spicy food.
These are low calories snacks like potato chips. And I bet you can’t stop yourself to eat after eating one.
So what are you eating in today’s snacks for weight loss?
Ingredients:
- A bunch of bite-sized kale leaves
- 1 tbsp. olive oil
- 1/2 tbsp. salt
How to prepare:
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- Cut the washed and dried kale leaves in bite size pieces and keep them on the parchment-lined baking sheet.
- Now pour one tablespoon of olive oil over the kale pieces and then salt.
- Bake them until edge gets brown but not burnt for 10-15 minutes.
17). Strawberries
Strawberry! Not only good looking fruits but tastier and healthier too.
It’s rich in vitamin C and fibers that keep your refresh and satisfying by natural juice and sweetness.
So, next time feed your hunger with this light calories snacks for weight loss.
18). Watermelon Sorbet
Watermelon has the large quantity of water than any other fruits.
These low calories food keeps your stomach satisfied for longer.
So, next time when you feel hungry, feed watermelon to your tummy as healthy snacks.
This refreshing snacks will keep you hunger-free for a longer time.
Ingredients:
- 3 tbsp. honey
- 1⁄4 cup lemon juice
- 3 cups watermelon
How to prepare:
- Cut the watermelon and remove its seeds.
- Now, mix honey and lemon juice together in separate bowl.
- Add watermelon pieces into this mixture and place them in a food processor or blender to crush them completely.
- Take it out and freeze them in ice cream maker.
- After a few hours, take it out and enjoy!
19). Healthy Mixture Trail
To treat yourself, prepare a bowl of the healthy nuts mixture.
A small bowl of nuts, dried fruits, and chocolate will satisfy your cravings and give you all needed required energy.
It’ll keep your tummy full for a longer time thus prevent overeating.
Ingredients:
- 1/2 cup pumpkin seeds
- 1/4 cup sunflower seeds
- 1/2 cup raw whole almonds
- 1/2 cup raw whole cashews
- 1 tbsp. olive oil
- 1 tbsp. pineapple juice
- 1/2 tbsp. Kosher salt
- 1/2 cup dried cranberries
- 1/2 cup golden raisins
- 1/2 cup shaved coconut
- 1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips
How to prepare:
- Preheat oven to 250 degrees.
- Mix pumpkin seeds, sunflower seeds, almond, cashews, olive oil, pineapple juice, and salt in a small bowl.
- Combine well and spread them onto a cookie sheet in even layer.
- Bake for 1 hour and stir mixture in every 15 minutes.
- Once you noticed that seeds and nuts are dried and toasted, take it out from the oven and let them cool completely.
- After getting cool, combine nuts and seed mixture with remaining ingredients and mix them well.
- Store them in an airtight
20). Fruits Mixture Salad
Fruits and vegetables are the best way to control your weight as these are incredibly satisfying for your gut.
These are low in calories and rich energy source that feeds your cravings at best.
Eat a bowl of colorful fruits with sprinkling black salt over it.
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