I’ll admit I have given in to the hype and bought my share of the various varieties of 100 calorie snacks. But today it dawned on me that they don’t help me and may be sabotaging my weight control. They seemed to be hollering at me “I’M ONLY 100 CALORIES… EAT ME!!!”. So I did… Too many times. And these 100 calorie snacks are not necessarily reduced calorie snacks. They are just repackaging of regular snacks into small packages. Hey, I can do that myself and save a ton of money in the process.
You are probably saying that all this is pretty obvious, and it is, but I still didn’t “get it” or at least I didn’t take it to heart. Well today I am saying NO to buying 100 calorie snacks. I have determined that if I want to eat 100 calories of something I will do the following.
- Pick out a regular food, let’s say some crackers that have a 120 calories for 14 crackers
- Divide the calories by the number of crackers (120/14=8.57)
- Figure out how many of those are in 100 calories (100/8.57=11.67)
- I round down the number, to 11 in this example
- Eat that many items, 11 crackers in this case
Not rocket science but sometime my brain looks past the obvious because I want to eat something.
Until next time with my next amazing revelation.
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