subject: The Truth About The 100-Calorie Snack and 100 Calorie Diet Explosion [print this page] The Truth About The 100-Calorie Snack and 100 Calorie Diet Explosion
By Jeanie Blanton-Trimble
September 14, 2010
Sisters Tammy and Susie Trimble came up with a brand new and unique idea when they wrote The 100 Calorie Diet Book back in 2007. This book completely revolutionized the way we look at calories in our foods. The authors emphasized in their book, " The 100 calorie way of eating." Even though their idea wasn't to eat snacks in the 100-calorie increments, top food producing companies jumped on the bandwagon, and the new and exciting 100-calorie snacks idea was born.
Soon, every time we went to the market, there on the shelves were snacks in the 100-calorie packs ranging from chips to cupcakes.
Major food companies like Nabisco, Chops Ahoy, Hostess, Sally's, Trader Joes, Hershey's, Honey Maid, Kudos, Lance, Nutter Butter, Oreo, Planters, Sun Chips, Twizzlers, Wheat Thins and Ritz were making the 100 Calorie snacks, and they are very popular with the public. A lot of consumers are buying the 100-calorie snacks in a variety of forms.
Why are the 100-calorie snacks and foods so popular with consumers? One of the reasons is that you feel you are in control of the calories you are consuming if you know that they are pre-measured and packaged in the 100-calorie packs. This type of eating gives you peace of mind in that after you have consumed the pack, you won't keep consuming the chips or whatever you are eating, thereby, you know you have only consumed 100 calories at the time you have eaten the whole pack.
I looked into some of the 100-calorie snacks by the different food producers and some of the more popular ones are as follows:
Nabisco 100-calorie Ritz Snack Mix
Chips Ahoy 100-calorie Snack Pack
100-calorie Cheese Nips
Trader Joes 100-calorie Milk Balls
Hershey's 100-calorie Bar dark chocolate
Hershey's 100-caloire Pretzel Bars
Hershey's 100-calorie Wafer Bars
Honey Maid Cinnamon Thin Crisps 100-calorie packs
Of course there are many more, just Google 100-calorie snacks and see what you come up with.
Some of our popular magazines also jumped on the bandwagon for these 100-calorie snacks. Good Housekeeping came out with an article called, "Best Snacks 100 Calories or Less. Inside the article there are lists of fruits and snacks for 100 calories or less. Also joining the 100-calorie snack and diet explosion was the magazine, Women's Health. Women's Health Magazine has an interesting test called the 100-calorie test. When you take the test, it gives you two choices of foods and one of them contains exactly 100 calories. If you would like to take this test, go to the Women's Health Magazine site (Google Women's Health Magazine) and type in 100 calorie. This will bring up the test. One of the test items was Hershey's Chocolate Kisses. I was surprised to find that 5 kisses were 100 calories. Also I learned that 8 shrimp with 2 Tablespoons of cocktail sauce were 100 calories, so this is a very informing and interesting test to take.
Also gaining more in popularity is the concept of the 100-calorie meals. The 100 Calorie Diet Book by Tammy and Susie Trimble is based on eating your meals in 100-calorie increments. Now this doesn't mean you are going to eat a 100-calorie meal for lunch but rather eat a good nutritious meal with foods measured in the 100-calorie increments as stated clearly in the book. The 100 Calorie Diet Food Journal has your 100-calorie counts for all foods, snack, drinks, entrees, sandwiches and side items! Wow!
Some dieters have carried this a step beyond that concept and try to eat several foods measured in 100-calorie increments throughout the day. By eating in this 100-calorie manner they plan their foods so that at the end of the day they have eaten a certain amount of calories thereby limiting their intake to what ever amount it takes for them to lose weight.
The question that we have to ask ourselves is " Are these snacks helping us to maintain our present weight, or if we need to lose weight, will they help us to lose weight?" I think the 100-calorie way of eating is a new and exciting way to diet and to have healthy permanent weight loss. The only way we can lose weight successfully is to cut down on the portion size of our foods and expend more energy by exercising daily. Learning how to eat by measuring ours foods for each meal and counting the calories in these foods for a total intake of the amount of calories we need to eat each day to reach our weight goals is getting to be the most popular way of dieting today.
Summary
The 100 Calorie Snack and The 100 Calorie Diet explosion is a new and exciting concept that gives the consumers, especially the ones who need to watch their calorie consumption, choices of snacks and foods already packaged in the 100 calorie size pack. A lot of our Major popular food companies have jumped on the 100-calorie bandwagon and are producing the 100-calorie packages of foods for our consumption daily. Susie and Tammy Trimble have written a diet book called The 100 Calorie Diet Book, and it has gained worldwide recognition as one of the best diet books on the web today. You can eat what you want, when you want and still lose weight! So, if you need to lose weight with no forbidden foods, get out your food scale and measuring cups and say, "The 100 Calorie Way!"
The Truth About The 100-Calorie Snack and 100 Calorie Diet Explosion
By: Jeanie
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