From healthy eating brands like us, to a brilliant collection of food bloggers and lots of people in search of great things to eat, Twitter is brimming with a marvelous collection of food-related comments, information and tips.

Although pretty new to the social media foodie scene, we hope that our mix of observations, articles, tips and recipes is adding to the debate.

In fact, we think we’ve tapped into a hot topic. One subject close to all foodies’ hearts… and stomachs… is how to control their obsession in order to prevent piling on the pounds or eating unhealthily.

A number of tweeters, led by the Love Food Love Drink e-zine, were recently considering which foods help to keep you full so you can avoid over-snacking between meals. Here’s the fascinating Twitter strand…

Luvfoodluvdrink: Is it just me or do eating apples make you really really hungry?

Beckpaskin: @luvfoodluvdrink – YES! But I’ve found that if you eat some protein with an apple (some nuts, cheese, glass of milk) it fills you up nicely.

JournoBird: @luvfoodluvdrink – I think it’s the acid. Always makes your belly rumble, especially during important meetings!

Luvfoodluvdrink: @BeckyPaskin – …or sandwich. My apple was supposed to be a mid-morning snack, but I ended up eating my lunch by 12. Oh well, two lunches today!

Beckpaskin: @luvfoodluvdrink – Schoolboy error. Still, you could do worse than have two lunches in a day!

Luvfoodluvdrink: @JournoBird @BeckyPaskin – Sandwich didn’t work, so am testing an @AdorFood choc bar. Apparently suppresses hunger. Tastes good too!

So there you have it. A tweeting session about food that keeps you full reaches its logical conclusion – Ador snacks!

We just love tweeting foodies!

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Becky Paskin writes and blogs for BigHospitality.com

luvfoodluvdrink is the Twitter moniker for top foodie website LoveFoodLoveDrink

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One of the most popular pledges is to lose weight and eat more healthily, yet new research from Total Greek Yoghurt and Mumsnet suggests that we’re not too successful at this.

One of the biggest enemies to successful dieting is craving calorific food, according to the survey. Almost 80% of respondents said the danger zones were mid-morning, mid-afternoon and late evening.

This means that finding out when you’re most vulnerable to a snack attack can be a major factor in helping you stick to your slimming regime. And once you’ve identified your weak point, the new trend for food that keeps you fuller for longer could be your ultimate weapon for dealing with the problem.

The usual snacks that people indulge in so satisfy their cravings will simply leave you wanting more, meaning you’ll probably scoff something else soon after. But Ador’s Swiss chocolate and oatbar ranges only contain 175 calories a bar and include a natural ingredient that fills you up. This calms your cravings and helps you get to your next meal with serial snacking. This makes them perfect for the mid-morning and mid-afternoon danger zones.

To prevent late night cravings, the answer could be Marks & Spencer’s new Simply Fuller Longer range, which features ready meals that are high protein to keep you full right up to when you go to bed.

Share your tricks for sticking to your diet with our readers.

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We can’t do much to help the biscuit and fast-food lovers, but we can help every woman who sees ‘giving in’ to chocolate as being the trigger to falling off the slimming wagon and abandoning the best intended January weight-loss plans.

Our diet First Aid comes in the form of Ador chocolate – cute, stylish 35g bars of the finest Swiss chocolate that you don’t need to hide away in your handbag or furtively bolt down when alone in your car. Why? Because with just 179 calories per bar, Ador chocolate has the added advantage of containing a clever extract of pine nut oil. This triggers signals to your brain telling you that this sensible-sized bar is enough to fill you up while satisfying that craving for a chocolate treat.

Ador chocolate – if you’ve got it, flaunt it!

Click here for the full article on Lighter Life’s research.

Plus here are some great blogs on snacking:
The secret society of snackers
Finding some healthy snack foods

Bear this in mind and you are well on your way to cracking the seemingly impossible task of sticking to your diet and just as importantly, keeping your weight off, once you have been through the hard slog of losing it.

How does this work? Well, think about two different breakfasts. The first is a bowl of sugary breakfast cereal or a muffin from a coffee shop. How long do these keep you feeling full for and when do you feel peckish again?

Everyone we have asked says that these foods will keep them going for about an hour or so, but that they are soon fixated on the biscuit tin, craving another sugar-hit.

Have a bowl of porridge or a couple of boiled eggs on the other hand, and you will easily make it through until mid-morning without even thinking about a nibble.

This is simply because eggs and porridge are filling (eggs, because of their protein content; oats, because of their slowly digested carbohydrate).

Sugary cereals and muffins, on the other hand, are full of quickly digested energy that rapidly raises blood sugar levels, but soon leaves you craving more.

The same goes with a lot of snacks. Nibble biscuits, cakes and sweets, and you’ll be back on that sugar roller-coaster before you can say ‘Hob Nob’!

Opt for a slowly digested snack, like an oatcake or a piece of rye bread, and you will feel fine until your next meal. The only problem is, who carries an oatcake or piece of rye bread around in their pocket or bag… and who really fancies eating them anyway?

This is where Ador snacks come into their own. To begin with, the oat bars (raspberry, mocca or prune and ginger) are completely portable. Next, they taste fantastic. And here’s the clever bit: they contain Fabuless, an natural oat and palm extract that helps to keep you feeling full.

This puts you in the driving seat when it comes to naturally controlling your appetite, and also means you won’t be starving, and overeat when you start your next meal.

Could Ador be what weight watchers everywhere have been waiting for?

Click here for 10 more tips to help you stick to your diet

Here at Ador, you know that we love food that looks good and tastes good, but also happens to have added benefits, like our chocolate, which contains pine nut extracts that help to keep you feeling full.

This week we heard about another chocolate available in Spain that contains an algae called spirulina, which its makers also say helps to keep you slim. It sounds great and is said to taste nice.

The slightly green tinge coming from the algae may not appeal to everyone, but naturally, it is horses for courses and we are pleased that other companies are helping to champion the concept that foods normally perceived as being at best ‘naughty’ and at worst ‘bad’ can actually be enjoyed in moderation and without guilt.

The fact is, losing pounds doesn’t mean that you should eat stuff that looks, or tastes weird.