100-Calorie Foods Are Not An Easy Way To Lose Weight
A lot of us look at those 100-calorie mini-packs of snack foods as an easy way to lose weight. In theory, it should work. But the reality is you may be in for a rough ride if you’re a dieter.
That’s because chronic dieters often overeat when consuming those 100-calorie packages.
A new study shows that dieters, or what they call “restrained eaters,” believe the mini-packs contain a lot of food, but they also think of them as “diet food.” You know, an easy way to lose weight while indulging your sweet tooth.
Using 100-calorie packs of M&Ms in their research, the scientists found that restrained eaters (dieters) ate more calories from mini-packs than unrestrained eaters (non-dieters).
So it may become easier to overeat with mini-packs and gain weight.
I think a lot of us look to 100-calorie snacks to give ourselves a little indulgence without gaining a lot of weight. But sometimes, there’s not a lot of heft to a sweet snack with only 100 calories.
So I think we start out to eat 100 calories, but then indulge more to satisfy our sweet tooth. That’s why it may be better to either eat bulkier sweet fruits that add up to 100 calories or put a sweet treat in your diet with enough calories to actually satisfy you.
It seems that the 100-calorie snack packs may be a little too tough on our willpower. And they turn out to be anything but an easy way to lose weight.
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