If you’re trying to lose fat and watching your calories it’s often tempting to skip meals to ‘save calories’.

You may also be rushing around and think you don’t have time to eat a meal. Lunch is a classic one and I often hear from clients that they ‘tend not to eat lunch’ for various reasons, and just ‘grab a snack’ on the go thinking they’re actually saving calories.

Sometimes there’s also the perception that something like a sandwich is a poor choice for lunch (because of the bread… 😬which is actually fine!) and that ‘healthy’ snacks are better.

In reality it’s extremely easy to clock up a large number of calories with this approach without even realising it. Often you’re rushing around so you grab a snack bar, that doesn’t satisfy you so a bit later you’ll have some fruit, maybe a biscuit with your coffee, then another ‘healthy’ bar later in the afternoon etc.

In actual fact you’d be better off just having a sandwich (even a relatively high cal one) for lunch which is just a quick and easy to grab and eat.

So if this is you, and you’re trying to lose fat and not seeing results, then maybe just stop and have a think about how much you may actually be eating with all the snacks.

Obviously if not eating lunch works for you and doesn’t cause you to overeat with snacks etc then keep doing what your doing! But it doesn’t hurt to just be a bit more mindful right? 🤗