Healthy Snack and Drink to Help You Lose Weight Effectively

Best Healthy Snack and Drink For Effective Weight Loss 

Healthy snacks are necessary to properly plan and execute your diet plan to lose weight effectively and quickly. These snacks not only help in your daily meal plan program but are also good to satisfy your cravings and hunger in between meals. 

We will see one such efficient snack which satisfies these requirements with some additional health benefits.

Healthy Energy Bites for Weight Loss

The weight loss recipe as part of the weight loss diet is easy to make and healthy snack that helps, 

• To maintain a high energy level.
• This also keeps hunger away in your weight loss schedule. 

These are natural and healthy energy bites also known as protein balls. These protein balls have,

• Healthy fats, Omega 3, minerals, vitamins, and antioxidants.

When, Who and How should these proteins reach energy balls be consumed?

• These are very good options to consume in the afternoon or post-workout.
• These energy balls are good as a nighttime snack for people doing night shifts. 
• Students studying or working late nights. 
• One or two balls are sufficient for consumption and overindulging should be avoided. 

If these are kept in an airtight container in the refrigerator they remain in good condition for months.

Procedure : 

• Heat the cast iron frying pan for a few minutes. Add half a cup of raw peanuts to it. Dry roast the peanuts on medium-low flame. When the peanuts are roasted, transfer them to another plate.

 Healthy fats in peanuts are released out when you dry roast them.

• In the same pan add half a cup of cashew nuts. You have to roast them dry. Once roasted, transfer them to the plate where peanuts are kept.
• Repeat the same with half a cup of Almonds and one-fourth cup of sesame seeds. Dry roast and put them on the same plate one by one. You can use sesame seeds in black or white type.

Sesame seeds enhance skin health and supply essential fats. They have one of the highest oil content.  Also as sesame seeds and nuts are roasted when they are ground, they release their healthy oils so no need to add any extra oil.

Sesame seeds protect the heart, improve blood pressure. and balance hormones. Sesame seeds are also loaded with nutrients, proteins, and healthy fats.

• Now transfer all of these contents from the plate to a food processor or Blender. After blending for a minute in the food processor the nuts and healthy ingredients are bound well. 
• Then add half a teaspoon( TSP) of cloves, two teaspoons of cinnamon powder, and one tablespoon(TBSP) raw cacao powder. Also, add two cups(almost 500 gms) of pitted dates ( seeds removed dates), one-fourth cup of flax seeds, one-fourth cup of chia seeds, and 1 TSP matcha tea powder.

Note: You can read if Cacao and Cocoa are the same or different here ->

Cacao & Cocoa - Differentiation

Matcha tea is known as green tea from Japan. It contains more antioxidants than ordinary green tea.

• Add 1 TSP of vanilla essence and one-fourth TSP of pink Himalayan salt. Now run the food processor again for a minute consisting of all these ingredients.
• Open the lid of the processor and transfer this mixture into a blending jar of the mixer to blend it into a fine consistency.
• When the mixture is nicely blended into the mixer, transfer it to a plate. Then roll this mixture to the small byte-sized balls one by one.
• After all the balls are rolled, dip the half portion of balls one by one into raw cacao powder. Then dip the remaining half portion of the balls into desiccated coconut.

Now your easy-to-make, healthy and oil-free energy balls are ready. You can consume them in the afternoon or in small bytes while doing your daily work.

What drinks are good for weight loss? This is the question asked by the majority of people looking for the healthiest drink for weight loss. Here we take a look at one of the healthiest, easy-to-make snacks and drink useful in your weight loss diet plan.  

Healthy Antioxidant Herbal Drink for Weight Loss

This ayurvedic healthy herbal water is an amazing antioxidant-rich thirst quencher. This pink-colored drink is from Kerala and has a subtle woody taste. 

It is served before a meal. It is known for antiviral and immune stimulant proprieties. 

Health Benefits  :

• This herbal drink of water is made by boiling Sappanwood /East Indian Rosewood   ( known as Pathimugam in Kerala). 
• This is widely used herbal medicine from ancient times.
• Wood shavings or small pieces of this medicinal tree are taken to boil in water. It disinfects the water due to the antimicrobial properties of that wood. 
• This herbal water drink is a very good summer drink to cool your body.
• Due to the high content of antioxidants, this herbal water acts as a perfect substitute for green tea. 
• People having allergy issues like asthma-related allergies should consume this drink regularly due to its anti-allergic properties.
• A good herbal drink for children to take to school.
• This drink has immune-boosting qualities.
• This herbal water can give a sufficient quantity of antioxidants to satisfy the daily needs of the body.
• People with issues such as thyroid, skin diseases, diabetes, high cholesterol, and kidney stones need to include this drink in the diet.
• This health drink is a very good blood purifier.
• Red pigments of the Sappenwood used in this drink improve cardiac health.
• People with acne issues should wash their faces with this herbal drink.
• The sapwood is also used as a natural coloring agent due to its distinguishing color. 

Procedure : 

• Take some thins pieces of Sappenwood. Add them into 3 liters of water and put on the flame. 
• As the water starts heating up, you can see the water starts turning up to light pink color. 
• When water starts to boil, the watercolor turns deep pink. 
• As the water begins boiling, keep it at the same temperature for 5 to 7 minutes. Then switch off the flame.
• Let the water cool for some time then transfer it to the glass jar.  These jars are easy to carry and the color of the water is visible easily. 

Your herbal drink is ready to use and it is very useful in daily diet plans. 

Disclaimer :

Please check the disclaimer at the bottom of the ' Seven Day Diet Plan - Day 1 ' Page before trying out anything mentioned above. The Link is here->

7 Day Weight Loss Diet Plan - Day 1

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