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CygnusX-1 - 02 May 2004 21:53 GMT

Lets start a thread (a long one hopefully). Please post your favority
fat-free/low fat snacks.

Let me start:
1. Orville Redenbachers 94% fat free Kettle Korn (any other flavored
low fat popcorn?)
2. Rice (or popcorn) cakes: caramel or peanut butter flavor
3. Fat free pretzle (any brand thats on sale)
4. Cheez-it 40% reduced fat

Drinks
1. Diet Cherry Pepsi
2. Diet Mountain Dew Code Red

How good are the Diet Rite drinks? There is a nice variety of them

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Patricia Heil - 02 May 2004 23:00 GMT

Fruit.
Vegetables.
Chickpea and soybean snacks -- like, roasted
with some kind of spices

Don't limit your vision to calories. Look at the
nutritional content. There is no nutritional content
in soda pop, and they leach calcium from your bones.
Drink 100% fruit juices like Northland or Apple and
Eve. Forget Ocean Spray, it's not 100% juice.

And if you go overboard a bit, exercise extra.

> Lets start a thread (a long one hopefully). Please post your favority
> fat-free/low fat snacks.
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> How good are the Diet Rite drinks? There is a nice variety of them

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CygnusX-1 - 06 May 2004 03:15 GMT

I don't drink that much pop - maybe 2 cans a day, while drinking over
2 quarts of water. I tried drinking a gallon of water daily, but that
really gave me the runs! ;-) Aren't most juices high in carbs and
calories sometime? I agree its important to read what you eat/drink, so
many juices have too much added sweetners.

In terms of excercising, I walk from 5-7 miles a day (about 3 miles at
a very brisk pace) to/from/during work. I also lift weights a few times
a week. I plan to start running on my treadmill every weekday in the
morning for 2 miles. Thus I normslly don't gain weight, even when I
pig out and eat a medium beef and spinach pizza by myself ;-) By running
in the morning, I hope to lose about 8 more pounds..hopefully my face
and abs will get tighter (ugg). I recently lost about 28 pounds in 8
weeks from a diet contest on my job. It was a nice challenge ;-)

Please post other snacks. I may have to look into almonds. But aren't
they high in calories and/or fat? Maybe its the good kind ;-)

> Fruit.
> Vegetables.
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> And if you go overboard a bit, exercise extra.

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Heywood Mogroot - 06 May 2004 21:40 GMT

> I don't drink that much pop - maybe 2 cans a day

sugar or sugar-free pop?

That may not be a lot compared to the population, but it is certainly
a lot when on a diet regimen.

300 kcal/day of sugar water are empty calories that add up fast.

> while drinking over 2 quarts of water.

2 quarts is the minimum.

> I tried drinking a gallon of water daily, but that
> really gave me the runs! ;-)

A gallon could be over-doing it. I drink most of my water with food.

> Aren't most juices high in carbs and calories sometime?

Yes. Juices are also very high GI, which means their sucrose can hit
your system hard, making you hungrier later. Plus getting too much
fructose in a day is very bad for you (or your liver and waistline),
apparently.

> I agree its important to read what you eat/drink, so
> many juices have too much added sweetners.

I only go out of my way to intake sugar during exercising and
immediately afterwards (where I've read muscles really want glucose
and protein the first 30 minutes after exercising).

> In terms of excercising, I walk from 5-7 miles a day (about 3 miles at
> a very brisk pace) to/from/during work. I also lift weights a few times
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> and abs will get tighter (ugg). I recently lost about 28 pounds in 8
> weeks from a diet contest on my job. It was a nice challenge ;-)

That's way too fast, unless you've got a very high body fat %. The
difficulty of dieting is to lose fat and not muscle. Not getting the
nutrition and exercise right is a quick way to looking like a WW2 POW.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/455000/images/_458729_pow_300.jpg

The body goes to your protein in muscle fibers first when you enter
starvation mode.

> Please post other snacks. I may have to look into almonds. But aren't
> they high in calories and/or fat? Maybe its the good kind ;-)

Yes. One serving (1 oz, ~28 almonds) has 200 kcal, and is very high in
fats (1.5g saturated, 4g polyunsaturated, 9g monounaturated). But it
also has only 1g sugar and 6g protein, so I enjoy them daily as a
midday meal replacement.

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GaryG - 02 May 2004 23:23 GMT

Raw almonds - 7 calories per almond. Filling and reasonably healthy.

GG
http://www.WeightWare.com
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Heywood Mogroot - 03 May 2004 05:56 GMT

> > Lets start a thread (a long one hopefully). Please post your favority
> > fat-free/low fat snacks.
> >
> > How good are the Diet Rite drinks? There is a nice variety of them
>
> Raw almonds - 7 calories per almond. Filling and reasonably healthy.

I like smokehouse almonds; a 1 oz serving goes really well with my
favorite low-cal beverage, spring water from walmart, which is
58c/gallon jug.

The 200 kcal, equally from unsaturated fats and protein, keeps me
tummy happy between breakfast and dinner.

During strenuous exercising (which for me is cycling 10 mi across
town), I add gatorade powder to the water (about half-strength), to
keep me midly juiced through the ride. About 80 kcal/20oz, not exactly
low-cal (hopefully more glucose than fructose), but I drink 20 oz over
10 miles, 8kcal/mile I ingest is a lot less than ~40 kcal/mile I'm
burning.

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Tara - 02 May 2004 23:53 GMT

My favorite snacks are:

Cucumbers or carrots dipped in low-fat cottage cheese
Whole wheat pretzel sticks
frozen grapes
low-fat carrot raisin muffins

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