The No-Hunger Way to Cut 100s of Calories
Some of my favorite advice from this article:
- Use 1 tablespoon of mayo and 1 tablespoon of low-fat cottage cheese to make tuna salad.
- Toss your salad with 1 tablespoon of dressing until every lettuce leaf is coated. You'll get away with using half the usual serving size. Try this trick at dinner too.
- Making meatballs? Mix half the amount of ground beef the recipe calls for with half as much cooked brown rice.
- Measure out your breakfast cereal; overestimating by just 1/3 cup can add 100 calories
- Make your own salad dressing using low-sodium, fat-free broth in place of 2 tablespoons of oil.
- Having fajitas? Fill up one tortilla rather than three, then eat the rest of your fixings with a fork.
- Skip the small movie-theater popcorn and bring your own 1-ounce bag of Lay's.
- At the mall, curb a craving for a soft pretzel with a 100-calorie pretzel pack.
- Eat fruit before every meal. In a Pennsylvania State University study, people who munched apples 15 minutes before lunch ate about 187 fewer calories.
- When making mac and cheese, resist temptation and prep just half the box. Save the rest in a zip-top bag for next time.
- Use your grandmother's Joy of Cooking and you'll save an average of 506 calories over three meals, according to a recent Cornell University study. The secret: Smaller portion sizes and lower-calorie ingredients were called for back then.
Goal: 100 calories
Burn 50: Get up from your desk and take a 20-minute walk at lunch.
Cut 50: Skip the oyster crackers in your soup.
Cut 50: Skip the oyster crackers in your soup.
Goal: 250 calories
Burn 125: Shovel the driveway for 20 minutes.
Cut 125: Hold the cinnamon bun. Eat two slices of cinnamon toast.
Cut 125: Hold the cinnamon bun. Eat two slices of cinnamon toast.
Goal: 500 calories
Burn 250: Spend two hours making dinner for the entire week.
Cut 250: Mist a pan with cooking spray instead of pouring in oil.
Cut 250: Mist a pan with cooking spray instead of pouring in oil.
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- Desperate Student
Glad you liked the link. I plan to post more things like the links. I also like to cook so I will be trying new recipes and telling how they taste and what I would do or did different from the original recipe.
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