Healthy Snack: Celery

So I was telling Mollie and Brooke this yesterday, but I thought I'd let you all know since it's kind of cool. Anyway, it takes more calories to digest celery than is actually in the celery. So it's kind of like negative calories. Plus it's really good for you. Dip the celery in peanut butter and it's even better for you. Peanut butter contains a lot of protein, good fats (yes there is such a thing as good fats!) and lots of other nutrients.

A really funny and interesting article I found...

Who hasn't spent way too much moolah on a box of those cleverly packaged 100-calorie baglettes of cookies or crackers? Even though you know they cost roughly twice what a regular bag does -- not to mention that all that packaging is a mini-environmental disaster -- still, they limit temptation. Save your dough and satisfy your snack attacks with one of these treats. Lots are single servings; nearly all the rest can be popped into mini-plastic bags and thrown into a pocket or bag. No will power needed.

5 Hershey's dark chocolate Kisses or, if chocolate's gotta be Dove for you, 2 Dove Promise dark chocolate miniatures

2 fresh figs or 1 juicy pear

½ English muffin toasted with just enough cheddar to meltingly cover the top

1 heaping cup of cherries

12 almonds

12 dried apricot halves

1 Dannon Light & Fit Raspberry Smoothie

1 Klondike Slim-a-Bear fudge bar

48 Rold Gold pretzel sticks

2 Dole frozen fruit juice bars (go wild and have 3 if you like -- at 30 calories a pop, who cares?)

1 Starbucks 8-oz. Caramel Macchiato, made with nonfat milk

Eat Right Tip

DON'T HIDE THE EVIDENCE
Your stomach doesn't know how much it's consumed without some help from your eyes, says Brian Wansink, Ph.D., of Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, and author of Mindless Eating (Random House). In one of his studies, when tables were bused at a Super Bowl party, people ate about 24 percent more wings than when the nibbled-on bones were left on the table. Keeping the evidence of what you've eaten—candy wrappers, discarded chicken bones, soda cans—in front of you may get your body to register "I'm satisfied" sooner.


~I found this tip on a fitness website. I thought it was interesting.
Courtney

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 so i think it would be really cool if we could all get together once a month and exercise, because i usually go on runs a couple days a week but its always by myself and a house got robbed like 2 blocks from my house so its not that safe for me to go by myself, so maybe we could all meet up and go on a run, or play tennis or just do something in a group.any suggestions??

 

                                                             -Amy

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