Make healthy snacks for yourself throughout the day and keep them on hand.  

You are bound to feel hunger pangs between meals, plan ahead and have healthy snacks ready for these times.  

Healthy snacking is actually great for weight loss – it balances out your blood sugar levels and gently stokes your metabolism.

Keeping your blood sugar levels constant is going to help you stick to your healthy eating plan.  

It is the sugar rushes from eating the wrong foods that causes the subsequent energy crash and the need to eat more.

ACTION PLAN

1. Make a list of healthy snacks that you can keep with you. Nuts and seeds are great ideas. Real fruit is also quite filling. Dried fruit is technically better for you then sweets but it still has too much sugar in it.  
2. Watch out for snack bars that are labeled as healthy – check the ingredients, a lot of them are laden with sugar and fats.
3. If you can discipline yourself to do so, you can have a couple of PIECES of dark chocolate – not slabs, pieces. Make sure that there is at least 80% cocoa in them.  
4. Olives make a nice snack.  
5. Keep an emergency stash in your drawer at work at all times.
6. Make sure that you always have at least two snack packs handy all the time.

Please refer to the book for more details on this activity.