Healthy Snack Options

Snack Ideas

Hello everyone! As you keep focused on eating clean and healthy, check out a couple of great online tools that can help you with your food choices: www.nutritiondata.com, www.fitday.com, and www.mypyramidtracker.gov. You can search for foods already in the database, or you can enter the nutrition data yourself to get an overall rating of each food. Also, here is an interesting page for weight loss tips:www.nutritiondada.com/dieting-weight-loss.html#facts. Here are some snack ideas that will help keep you on track: Please use common sense when snacking! Don't let your portion sizes get too big. Go easy on the nuts -- only about 10 or so per day. Same for peanut butter -- 1-2 tbsp. per day. Fruit: try to choose raspberries, blueberries, strawberries, cantaloupe and apples instead of bananas, pineapple and grapes, which might have much higher sugar content. Check out the our Snack Smarts and Easy Snack Recipesfor more options! You can also visit www.cookinglight.comfor healthy snack ideas. Your Operation Boot Camp Staff

Today's Mission: I know we talk about sleep in boot camp orientation, but the proper amount of sleep makes sure the body, especially the metabolism, is running well. It is important to get 6-8 hours of sleep per night and really try to be consistent about when you go to bed every night. This will help you not feel sluggish during workouts, as well as make you a better calorie burner throughout the day.