Low calorie night time snacks
Low calorie night time snacks
You may find that following your diet programme becomes a bit of a struggle when you are hit with an attack of the munchies. Most likely this will be late night when you fancy an evening snack or when returning home after a night out. Breaking your diet plan for a late night snack can mean defeat as you are distracted from following your diet programme and may fall off the wagon not just for that night but potentially the next few days until you get on track again with your weight loss schedule. Also if you are having a night in home alone or with friends or your significant other half then you may be bored or fancy treating yourself and this is where snacking can become dangerous to your diet plan. The answer? Low calorie night time snacks.
If you want to succeed with your weight loss plan then this is the way forward for your night time snacking habits. Still have a late night snack and do not deprive yourself but have diet bites that are healthy and low calorie so as not to ruin your weight loss plan and your evening. Munching on low calorie night time snacks ensures you maintain your weight loss programme without depriving yourself. Low calorie night time snacks ensure you stay on track, within your calorie intake for the day and keep on the road of diet progress. 
Below are some late night low calorie snacks to help you keep on track. As well as being low calorie they are very nutritious so will help you keep fuller for longer ensuring that you don’t reach for any dangerous high calorie midnight snacks later on. Here are our quick and easy to make low calorie night time snacks:
Peanut butter celery sticks
Grab some celery sticks and slaver with a lavish coating of peanut butter for instant satisfaction. Peanut butter is a rich and healthy source of fats and proteins whilst celery contains minimal calories, if any. (See our review of the negative calorie diet.) The fats and proteins in the peanut butter ensure you feel satisfied and full. The celery delivers a nice crisp kick making this one of the all time favourite low calorie night time snacks.
This late night bite amounts to approximately 150 calories so it will easily fit into any low calorie diet programme.
Scrambled eggs
If you want a light satisfying low calorie nigh time snack try scrambled eggs. Together with some low fat cheese or low fat cottage cheese this provides a high protein and low calorie snack. Load with some sauce, pickle or salsa to give a tangy kick. If you want to cut the calories even further then just use the egg whites, rather than the egg whites and yolks together, to make the scrambled eggs. This low calorie nighttime snack amounts to approximately 175 calories, which calories are mainly filled with high quality protein to help build muscles.
Yogurt with flaxseeds, fruit and nuts
Or take any low fat natural or flavoured yoghurt and add some flaxseeds. This is a tasty and nutritious low calorie night time treat with a nice mix of proteins and carbohydrates. This diet snack is more like a desert as you can pick any flavour of yoghurt. Most yoghurts nowadays are available in virtually fat free varieties in a great range of flavours either fruit or even toffee, vanilla or chocolate. Also add some fresh fruit or dried fruit and nuts (salt free nuts) for an extra sweet taste and crunchy texture which is really satisfying and beats those late night hunger pangs.
Depending on the make of the yoghurt and how much you add by way of flaxseeds, fruit and nuts this tasty low calorie night time snack comes in at around 200 calories.
Cottage Cheese and Peanut Butter
Last on our list of low calorie night time snacks is low fat cottage cheese with peanut butter. Both these foods are high protein foods which means that they will stay in the body being digested for longer delivering a steady stream of protein amino acids and keeping your stomach to diminish those hunger pains for longer. This, together with the scrambled eggs and cheese low calsorie night time snacks are perfect for those dieters who also enjoy working. The high protein hit helps build muscle tissue.
We hope you enjoy these low calorie night time snacks and they help you maintain your diet programme with weight loss success!
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