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LET’S TALK ABOUT SNACKING 🍿 

How snacking affects how we feel (and our health!) starts with how it impacts our metabolic health so let’s start there!

Metabolic health describes how well we generate and process energy in our body.

We maintain metabolic health by keeping our glucose levels stable.

Every time you eat sugar, your glucose spikes. Of course, we don’t want high levels of sugar circulating in our bloodstream, so our pancreas sends out insulin to grab the glucose and shuttle it to our fat, liver, and muscle cells.

If we keep spiking our blood sugar by eating processed foods and refined carbohydrates, our pancreas gets exhausted. It can’t keep up with the demand to pump out insulin to shuttle the sugar to our cells and it gives out. We then end up with elevated blood sugar levels and if we don’t adjust the way we eat, this leads to diabetes.

Poor metabolic health does not make us feel good. When we have poor metabolic health, we often experience symptoms such as:

• Carrying excess weight

• Hormone imbalances

• Infertility

• PCOS

• Low energy

• Trouble sleeping

• Brain fog

• Fatigue

• Depression

• Anxiety

• Lack of endurance

• Balding and hair loss

• Acne

• Chronic pain

• Increased appetite

• Skin issues

When we have strong metabolic health, we feel amazing. We have sustained energy, clear skin, healthy hormones, great sleep, and improved moods. We feel great.

Type 2 diabetes, when your pancreas stops effectively producing insulin because we drove our blood sugar up too high, too many times, is a gateway to all other chronic diseases. Meaning, if you have poor metabolic health, your body is in a constant state of inflammation, contributing to the development of other chronic diseases.

The Majority of Chronic Diseases Are Rooted in Poor Glucose Control

• Type 2 diabetes (dysfunctional glucose processing)

• Obesity (dysfunctional body fat storage)

• Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (dysfunctional management of glucose and fat in the liver)

• Cancer (cancer cells thrive on sugar)

• Heart disease & stroke (damage to vessels from inflammation and excess glucose)

• Alzheimer’s & dementia (now called type 3 diabetes, with evidence of insulin resistance in the brain)

• Chronic kidney disease (vessels of the kidney impaired by excess glucose)

• Infertility (insulin resistance of the ovaries)

The Best Part? We Are in Control of Our Metabolic Health

Our metabolic health is entirely determined by our lifestyle – how we move, eat, and sleep.

We want to:

• Eat real, whole foods – Eliminating sugar, processed foods, and refined carbs from our diet, which only skyrocket our blood sugar and lead to metabolic dysfunction.

• Sleep well & lower stress – Meditation and relaxation techniques can help, as high stress can raise your blood sugar just like candy!

• Move our bodies! – The more muscle we have, the more insulin-sensitive we are.

And This Brings Us to Snacking…

Ideally, we want to eat when we are truly hungry and limit snacking and overeating.

When we are constantly eating, our body is overloaded with processing too much glucose, which can lead to insulin resistance.

When we are hungry and looking for a snack, we want to choose foods that will keep our blood sugar stable. We do this by prioritizing fat, protein, and fiber while avoiding sugar, processed foods, and refined carbohydrates.

By focusing on real, whole food choices and limiting the sugars and processed foods we will avoid the afternoon energy dips, reliance on caffeine, skin breakouts and hormone chaos. We will feel better in all ways. We don’t want to put our bodies on a rollercoaster every time we reach for a snack!

Focus on choosing the options that give us clean, sustained energy to avoid the swings and help us feel our best.

We have built out the master guide to snacking below with tons of delicious, feel good options ⚡️ 

WHAT WE’RE SNACKING ON 😋 

PROTEIN 🍗

Chomps Meat Sticks

Epic Bars

Paleo Valley Meat Sticks

Lineage Provisions Air-Dried Steak 

Good Culture Organic Cottage Cheese

Hard-Boiled Eggs

Meal Prep Egg Cups

High-Protein Banana Pudding 

Better than a Milkshake Cookies & Cream Smoothie

Double Dark Chocolate Sea Salt Smoothie

Protein Overnight Oats

FAT 🥑

Vanilla Almond Butter Granola

NuttZo 7 Nut & Seed Butter

Raw Almond Butter

Dry Roasted Nuts

Keto Chocolate Collagen Fat Bombs

Guacamole

Energy Balls

Everything But The Bagel Avocado

Maple Peanut Butter Granola

FIBER 🫐

Roasted Red Pepper Hummus

Coconut Mango Chia Pudding

Spa Day Fab Four Smoothie

Overnight Oats

Crispy Buttery Broccolini

Popcorn

Hummus

Organic Flax Seed Crackers

Ella’s Flats

& most importantly… ALL the veggies & fruits!! 🥦 

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