If you're like me, you probably get sick of eating the same thing all the time. I try to keep a variety of healthy snacks in my house at all times just in case. A good snack is one that takes less than 5 minutes to prepare, is easily portable and fills me up. These are my favorite most convenient healthy snacks:

 A handful of raw almonds: I like to keep a zip lock baggy full of the protein filled nuts in my purse, just in case hunger strikes while I'm out and about. Being vegan makes it very difficult to find food on the go, so it's best to be prepared.

 A bowl of fresh fruit: I use a variety of fruit found in my kitchen, slice it up and put it in a Tupperware. Fruit is full of filling fiber and sweet tooth satisfying all at the same time.

 Veggies and hummus: Studies have shown that veggies lose nutritional value when they're cooked, so eating them raw with hummus is great for you. I like to use baby carrots, celery, broccoli, cauliflower and zucchini. On top of that hummus contains all 9 essential amino acids for a complete protein.

What are your favorite quick and healthy snacks?

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I just started to keep my very own journal for logging everything I eat, in efforts to find out what foods have been upsetting my tummy. Although I didn't necessarily start the journal for weight loss reasons, I have noticed myself picking less in between meals. So could keeping a food journal be the next craze in the diet industry? Even American Idol winner and vegetarian, Carrie Underwood admits to writing down everything she eats! Well according to a newly published study, the benefits of keeping a food diary are far overlooked.

Keeping a food diary is a powerful tool in helping dieters lose weight, scientists said yesterday.

Those who compiled a detailed account of what they ate and drank and the calories it contained lost about twice as much weight as those who did not, they found.

The six-month study involved 1,685 middle-aged men and women from four U.S. cities – Portland, Oregon; Baltimore, Maryland; Durham, North Carolina and Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

Their average weight loss was about 13lb. But those who kept food diaries six or seven days a week lost about 18lb compared with 9lb for those who did not.

Those taking part in the study, whose average age was 55, were asked to eat less fat and more vegetables, fruit and whole grains. They were also told to exercise for three hours a week, mostly by walking, and attend support group meetings.

One of the study’s leaders, Dr Victor Stevens, of Kaiser Permanente’s Center for Health Research in Portland, said: ‘For those who are working on weight loss, just writing down everything you eat is a pretty powerful technique.

SOURCE: Daily Mail

Now that you know how helpful keeping a food journal can be, will you start your own?

Actress Kate Hudson is clearly in great shape for a reason. Almost every time I see a picture of this woman she's either coming or going from an exercise class , riding her bike or playing tennis with her guy . Hudson played a friendly tennis match against beau Lance Armstrong (not pictured) Monday at the Pacific Palisades Tennis Club in Los Angeles.

SOURCE: People