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Ten SAFE Ideas to Knock off Thousands of Calories Each Week
Judy Goffi MS, RD, CDE, LD
Judy Goffi
MS, RD, CDE, LD |
With some safe tweaking, you can slash calories
in very safe and effective ways.
For many people, making these changes result
in losses of 1-2 pounds per week. Each tip below
will cut roughly 100 calories per meal from
your diet.
The best thing about these 10 tips is that
they are virtually "painless." They target high-sugar
and high-fat foods and additives.
Give them a try and you'll love the results.
- Switch to drinking water first thing
in the morning instead of fruit juice. Fruit
juice is high in sugar, which adds lots
of calories. Since most of us are dehydrated
in the morning and simply need fluids, water
is most appropriate anyway.
- Switch to eating sugar-free yogurt instead
of regular yogurt.
- Switch to a low-fat store-bought bagel
instead of a bakery bagel.
- Use fruit as a topping on that low-fat
bagel, instead of flavored cream cheese.
- Replace bacon at breakfast with reduced-fat
turkey bacon or Canadian bacon.
- Steam your vegetables instead of
sautéing
them in butter or oil.
- If you drink a lot of soda, switching
to diet soda will probably save you literally
hundreds of calories a day.
- Switch to boiled shrimp or chicken instead
of steak on shish-kabobs.
- Replace 1 tablespoon of regular mayo
on your turkey sandwich with 1 1/2 tablespoons
of reduced fat mayo.
- When eating french toast, use non-fat
milk and egg whites instead of whole milk
and eggs. Be sure you are drinking non-fat
milk as well.
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