Cutting Calories Made Easy

You pay proper attention to your diet and eat very carefully and also exercise regularly, still you weigh the same. The reason for this may be you are you are eating more calories than expected.

Consuming extra 100 calories daily for a year can add extra 10 pounds to your weight. So little calories can actually make big savings!

To stay away from scale creep, try substituting healthier foods that have less calories, whilst maintain flavor. Reducing calories intake is actually easy, it’s a matter of substituting healthier products over the course of a day. Before buying any low fat or low carbs foods, do check the calorie content. Low fat and low carbs doesn’t mean that it low in calories too. Also check the nutrient label.

Cutting Calories in the Morning

Mid-size café mocha contains around 250-270 calories. Try to cut down your drink by the smaller size made with skim milk, by doing just this you can save approximately 100 calories. Also, always ask you coffee without any whipped cream; this can help you in saving almost half a day’s worth of saturated fat.

A normal blueberry bagel with two oz of cheese cream can add up to 530 calories. If you cut down your bagel intake to half and replace it with fresh fruits, you can save up to 115 calories. Moreover, fruits will also provide you required vitamins and minerals.

Cutting Calories in the Afternoon

What do you plans to drink with your lunch? If you have a soft drink daily with your lunch then you actually gulp 140 calories before you even unwrap up your lunch box. If you can avoid soft drink you can save 140 calories in a day or 51,100 calories in a year. These 51,100 calories from your daily soft drink can translate in to 15 pounds over a year’s time. Replace your soft drink with healthier drinks, or the best would be to replace it with water. If you really wan to have fizzy drink at your lunch then have zero-calorie seltzer water.

Cutting Calories at the snack time

You can sabotage whole day effort of less calorie consumption by just pressing a single button of vending machine. Try to get of the vending machine habit and bring your own low calories snacks from your place.

Cutting Calories in the Evening

Try to eat light meal in dinner. Possibly, cut down the servings by taking reasonable portions.  In fact skipping second serving, if you are not really hungry, is an easy way to cut calories. Also, if you are habituated of eating snacks while watching TV, then eat low calorie snacks and be reasonable while eating. Don’t fill yourself.