Posts Tagged ‘snacks’

How to stick to your diet plan… and keep the weight off afterwards

Thursday, December 17th, 2009

What you eat at one meal profoundly affects when and what you what to snack on next.

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?

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It doesn’t have to be hell to be healthy

Monday, November 23rd, 2009

If you think that losing weight is all about deprivation, celery sticks and odd looking (and tasting) detox concoctions then it’s time to think again. The fact is, it does not have to be hell to be healthy.

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.