Skinny Cow is a great combination of words that promises the best of two worlds. Healthy milk and low fat. They claim 80 calories and 3 grams of fat per serving.
That in itself does not sound alarming but think about how small that serving is and how little genuine wholesome nutrition you are getting.
After all it is still a snack food and not a meal substitute.
If you’re on a weight-loss diet and trying to eat low calorie food but still thinking about snack food then you still have a fundamental problem with food.
A natural, between meals snack food would be something like an apple, some grapes, nuts, or dreid fruit. There is nothing healthy and dietetic about ice cream. It’s a dessert and it is something you have a treat. It’s not something you eat to satisfy your appetite.
We all have a taste for sweet foods, kids love sweet foods. We know that we have to limit the intake of them and know they are empty calories. And calories without nutrition are not conducive to keeping weight under control and being healthy.
You can fool your taste buds by using artificial sweeteners but that just reinforces the desire for sweet foods. Just like using salt, if you start cutting back you gradually feel less of it. If you start cutting back on the sweet foods you feel less need to keep eating them.
That’s the best way of committing yourself to eating less sweet food. In short order your body sugar level stabilizes so that you don’t need to keep feeding the sugar roller coaster.
Part of a good weight-loss regimen diet is to eat regularly to prevent hunger pangs and wholesome food to prevent blood sugar swings.
Healthy food is more satisfying, more slowly digested and reduces cravings that make sweet snacks so tempting. Forget about the latest fad in highly refined, chemically-laden, non-nutritious concoctions like Skinny Cow.
