 If you find yourself hungry in between meals, that's actually perfectly normal. Snacks can be a really important part of your diet. They give you energy in between meals and actually can prevent you from overeating at your meals. When choosing a snack, we're looking for two crucial things. Protein and carbohydrates. Protein helps to fill us up while carbs give us sustained energy. An example of a carbon-protein pairing can be anything from a string cheese or a piece of cheese with a piece of fruit or it could be peanut butter with a piece of fruit as well. Peanut butter and banana is one of my favorite combinations. Another example of that perfect pair could be something like nuts and seeds paired with a green yogurt. The nuts and seeds give you lots of good protein and healthy fats while the yogurt would give you protein and carbohydrates. Protein bars can be a really simple solution to on-the-go snacking but we have to make sure that we're choosing the right protein bar. Some of these can have as much grams of sugar as a candy bar so it's always important to check the label. My rule of thumb is looking for more grams of protein than grams of sugar. A couple of options that follow that rule are one bars as well as the cliff-way protein bars. Here's another example that does all the work for you. It's a package that comes with tuna that's high in protein and crackers that are carbohydrates. This is perfect for on-the-go. With all that snacking you might get thirsty. Water is always our best choice but if you get tired of water you can always try something like seltzer water or tea. We just want to make sure that our tea is unsweetened so it has zero grams of added sugar. Same goes for our seltzer waters or flavored waters.