Eating nuts in the afternoon can prevent the ‘diet blowout’.

You have been great all day – following a sensible good nutrition plan and it’s 3.30pm. Suddenly you are hungry.

Have you ever been in the situation where you just open the pantry door and go ‘hunting’ for food – ANY food will do.

STOP! Did you know that we have a ‘hunger hormone’ (called ghrelin) that drives us in the afternoon to eat something – anything? This is especially true if you skipped breakfast!

BUT this greedy little hormone will be quite satisfied if you feed it NUTS!

Now I am not saying that you just go all out on nuts (after all they do contain fats – but good fats). Plan to have a nut snack between 3 and 3.30pm: 20grams will probably be enough. That’s about 20 almonds, hazelnuts, or walnuts or a mix of the three (as long as it is no more than 20 in total).

If you want to go for brazil nuts, then it’s about 8. Use tree nuts only – NOT peanuts.

Give it a try as part of a good nutrition day and see what happens.