If you've been avoiding snacks because you're worried they may cause weight gain, I have a bunch of great "weight-loss friendly" snack ideas for you.
Ideas that can easily become "grab-and-go" options and are not only healthy but delicious.
And, as usual, I’ve included a bunch of tips to help you get more of them, and a recipe for a great dip (in case you’re the “dipping” kind)
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Today is going to be short and sweet. And we are talking five thyroid, thyroid friendly foods to help you lose weight, cue musical intro.
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All right, you guys welcome back to the thriving thyroid podcast. Today is gonna be short and sweet as we are talking about thyroid friendly foods that you should be eating if you want to slim down the waist line. All right. So often we hear the word weight, loss and snacks, and they often appear in the same sentence, but that might also bring the thoughts of cardboard, tasteless, feeling, unsatisfied, feeling like deprivation, all of those things, right? So let me give you some of my favorite thyroid foods to incorporate in to help you lose weight that are not only nutritious for you, but they're also nutrient dense. Okay? So they have to be nutrient dense foods because a little bit will go a long way. Okay? So foods that contain protein and fiber are some of the big ones that I like to incorporate in for snacks.
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If you need one, all right. So number one is nuts. It is true nuts, contain calories and fab, but they are not fattening. You guys, they actually have the opposite effect. Is they help you slim down? Well, I'm not talking about like the honey roasted nuts. You guys I'm talking, cuz those could be fat mean cuz they're covered in sugar and yummy delicious stuff. But studies are showing that people who eat nuts tend to be healthier and also leaner. So by the way, nuts contain protein and fiber, which means that a small amount can go a pretty long way in terms of keeping you full, not to mention the vitamins and minerals that you get from those nuts. Things like Brazil, nuts, Brazil, nuts have selenium in them. And selenium helps to make glutathione for the body. And glutathione is the master detoxification, which is going to help balance hormones because we as women during certain times of the month, we are getting rid of extra hormones and we need that Glu ion to get rid of the extra hormones, to help balance out and even out those hormones.
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So Brazil, nuts are great. Cashew nuts are great. Almonds, all of those did you know that almonds have been shown to help with weight loss? This is why almonds are on like every single diet plan I've pretty much ever looked at. <Laugh> at least 10% of the fat and them is not absorbed by the body and the almond can help boost your metabolism. So put a handful of unsalted, unsweetened, nuts into a small container and throw 'em in your purse. You guys, I literally keep nuts in my diaper bag and my purse and my car all the time in case I ever get caught in a situation where I'm like, I'm so hungry, I have nothing to eat because they they're great. They're fast and easy and can provide you with some sustainable energy really quickly. Okay. Number two is fr fresh fruits and I actually love to pair nuts with fresh fruits.
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It is an amazing snack that will help keep you full. It'll help keep you satiated. It is fun, right? And you don't feel deprived. It's like this little like sweet treat that you guys can have. So as with nuts, studies have shown that people who tend to eat more fruit tend to be healthier. And I'm sure this is like a huge shocker to all of you guys, right? Just kidding. Okay. So yes, fresh fruit contains sugar, but whole fruit. And I'm not talking about like juice or sweet dried fruits like Craisins they contain a fair amount of water and fiber, not to mention their nutritional value with vitamins minerals, antioxidants, and these fresh fruits are low in calorie, right? So we're getting a wide range of nutrients when we eat fruit. And when we pair the nuts and the fruit together, we, it is helping to keep our blood sugar level stable and helping to keep you fuller for longer.
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So fiber is one of those things that also that not only helps you feel fuller, longer and satiated, but it also helps to release or to slow the release of the fruit sugars that are present into your bloodstream and reduces that notorious blood sugar spike causing you to crave more sugar, right? If you eat a cookie or some chocolate, it's like, oh, I need some more, oh, I need some more and you can't get, you can't stop. So fresh fruit helps with that. So it's really a, win-win try a variety of things. Apples pairs, berries, and pair it with a handful of nuts, like I said, and you will, you will be so happy with that. There's a tip here. If you, if fresh fruit is difficult for you to get or whatever, you can always try frozen, frozen things. Our coaches inside the Hansen method, they love like frozen cherries.
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They love frozen pineapple. And that can also be very, very cost effective on your grocery budget to get those things when they're on sale and freeze them yourself, I actually just bought, like, I split it with a friend, but we got about 40 pounds of cherries. It was a ton of Cher, no 20 pounds. It was 20 pounds of cherries. We got a ton of cherries and it ended up being like 90 cents a pound. Well, of course <laugh> my family. Couldn't eat them that fast. So we pitted them and we froze them and now we can snack on them. We can put 'em in smoothies, we can do whatever we want. So it was very, very cost effective for us to be able to do that in bulk, but also have them for later use as well. Number three, are those chia seeds, chia seeds, flax seeds.
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I'm gonna lump a few things in here. Chia seeds, flax seeds and hemp seeds are, are incredible to add over like a salad or put in your smoothie. Chia seeds are not only high and fiber and I mean high, you guys like super high, but they also contain protein and omega-3 fatty acids and yes, those omega three fatty acids are good as well as antioxidants and calcium and magnesium. So can you see how these little tiny, how amazing these little tiny guys are you guys seriously? Like Hep seeds are all also one of my other favorites to add in because of the, the nutty flavor, but hemp seeds. And I'm trying to remember correctly, but like three tablespoons of hemp seeds equals 10 grams of protein. So they are tiny, but they are mighty. You guys might wanna fact check me on that one.
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<Laugh> I'm trying to remember, but I'm pretty sure I got pretty close on that. So put two tablespoons of cheese seeds in a bowl of about a half, a cut cup of nut milk. We really like like coconut milk or something like that and add some berries, chopped fruit and nuts and CI, and you can enjoy, it becomes like a pudding type deal. Actually. I shouldn't say pudding. It becomes more of a tapioca kind of deal. I don't love the texture of tapioca, but a lot of our clients inside the handsome method do. And so if you are one of those people that love that, try it out. It, it would be great. Number four, boiled or poached eggs. I make these not all the time, but pretty frequently because they're easy for me to hard boil eggs, peel them. My kids can eat them on the way to school.
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Pair them with a muffin, pair them with fresh fruit. You pair them with just about anything. So easy <laugh> and eggs are packed with tons of nutrition, mostly the yolk of them. They do contain a lot of good high quality protein, especially if you're getting past pasture raised, oh my goodness, free range chickens that are eating a lot of bugs and nutrients that way. And they have a good amount of vitamins and minerals as well. And a recent research shows that the cholesterol in the yolk is not associated with high cholesterol or linked to any kind of heart disease. Just have to put that out there. <Laugh> so keep these in your fridge for a quick easy snack kind of deal. All right. Number five. Are those vegetables you guys, I don't need to tell you how great vegetables are for you, but just maybe I need to sell you on how delicious and snackable these things are for their nutritional powerhouse, veggie veggies contain fiber and water to help keep you full.
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And you don't need meat to tell you about their vitamins and minerals and antioxidants, right? Like I, I hope this isn't new information for you. You can easily open a bag of baby carrots or cherry tomatoes and give them a quick rinse. And they are really bite sized. If you are the kind of person that sits at your desk all day and you like to snack on M and Ms or Skittles or almonds or something like that, this may be a great alternative. Are those like little bite size things to snack on and you can always pair them. Of course, with Nu butters, almond butters almond butters, <laugh> celery. You can try hummus. You guys can try ranch. I have, if you send me a message on Instagram or Facebook and you want my dairy free ranch dressing thing, it is delicious.
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I absolutely love it. It's one of the things that I like to send my clients, because most of us, we like to dip. I have a few family members that are not dippers and I'm like, you're so weird. Just kidding. But one of the other things that I like to do for my kids and this may help you guys going back into school is I make veggie trays. After I go grocery shopping, I like to go grocery shopping on Mondays when kids are in school, because I find that Mondays, you typically have a really good high quality produce that is being put out because all of the weekend shoppers come Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, and then they restock everything Monday. And so you get really fresh, delicious stuff that typically lasts a little bit longer. So if you can go to grocery shopping on Monday, maybe try that out.
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But I buy a bunch of fruits and veggies. I have a really awesome like resalable veggie tray that I found on Amazon. And it's super cool. You guys can go check it out or again, you can send me a DM and ask me, Hey, which one do you have? But it has a lid, the individual compartments come out. So you can rewash and like re restock one section at a time if that's the case, but it's seriously, like, they're so easy. I will put in fruits and veggies. Sometimes I will put in other things in there like nuts or something like that. And so for after school, my kids are hungry and they made a snack and dinner's not ready. I'm like, here you go. <Laugh> right. I can put in hard boiled eggs. I can, I can do a lot of different things.
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And that prevents my kids in the afternoon from snacking on chips and crafters and things that aren't necessarily nutrient dense if they need it. So I think that is all, these are five things, five foods that will help support your thyroid and help you lose weight. If you are trying now, before you go, if you are looking at getting more specific help on your meeting, your nutritional needs, I highly recommend you guys come over to the show notes, schedule a free call with myself or one of our th advisors. And we can discuss in detail, if you are a good fit to work with us in recapture your thyroid or in the Hanen method and help you make some, some good decisions so that you can accomplish your goals because kids are going back to school and it is a great time to prioritize yourself. Once again, after taking care of all of the little munchkins all summer long, all right, you guys, I will see you in the next, you guys, before I forget, you can also head over to the show notes and check out. I have a thyroid recipe book you can buy with tons of snack, ideas, meals, smoothies, breakfast, desserts, all of those types of things that you may want to support your thyroid. I'll see you on the next
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