One of the fundamental questions of life, the universe and everything else could be: ” Snack yes or snack no ?”. There are many people who, rather than being interested in what to eat for breakfast, lunch and dinner, are desperately trying to figure out if they can have snacks between meals, and to what extent. A fruit? A yogurt? Two cookies?

And why so much attention to snacks? I’ll tell you my opinion: people associate snacking with that sacred moment when they can eat junk food . In which you can treat yourself to yogurt with chocolate cereals, the bar chosen on purpose, the piece of homemade dessert. Too bad that very often the snack “weighs” on our energy balance like a small meal. 
In fact, it is one thing to eat raw vegetables or fruit, snacks that on average do not exceed one hundred calories a day and do not interfere too much with digestion. Another is to shoot yourself a juice with two or three biscuits, especially if we are sedentary people.
We have to think of the snack as an extra, like the unscheduled monthly purchase without the money to eat, to live, the bills: there are those who can afford it and those who cannot. The sedentary person is like a person who does not make ends meet: he cannot afford a snack that is not fruit or vegetable, especially if he has already eaten during the main meals.
The reason? Often snacks give us an extra 400 calories more per day. Not a few.

And above all: how much sugar is there in these snacks? I don’t want to make you the bad sugar boozer, I have already given in other articles: however, if a fruit yogurt can contain up to 25 grams of sugar, mostly fructose, and if a small percentage of our daily caloric needs should be made up of simple sugars , including portions of fruit, those 25 grams already become a nice extra. And maybe, let’s face reality: it won’t be the only extra of the day.

In this article I am talking about a diet that every time I post it on facebook triggers some grumbling of protest: it is called NO S Diet, and it is basically not a diet in the strict sense, but it is a way to lose weight with two or three rules, between one of which, the main one, is not to eat sweets and not to snack between meals . The No S Diet , silly as it is, works: its inventor lost 20 pounds like that. Many people have documented weight loss, forcing themselves not to snack other than main meals and not to eat sweets. That’s all? Yup.

Mind you: I’m not saying that snacking makes you fat. I’m saying that if a lot of people go wrong during their snacks, if you want to lose some weight, you can start from here, with a snack diary, in which you write down how much you eat between meals, even if it was a taste or a bite or a piece of something that you bring to your mouth.
Mark it for a week, mark all the snacks, even the ginseng coffee, just anything that does not fit into the most important meals.
Then take a look at your snack diary and count your daily calories.
How heavy is your desire to eat between meals? 

If the snacks exceed 20 percent of the daily calorie intake, and we eat regular meals throughout the day, it is worth asking, in case we already tend to gain weight, if we are not exaggerating in general.