Easy Ways to cut Calories

Here are a few easy changes you can make to save 100 calories per meal. All of this information comes from Fitness Magazine February 2010.

Cut 100 Calories
Breakfast--

1. * Use skim milk
2. * Eat a bowl of high-fiber cereal and you'll consume fewer calories all day
3. * Bacon NOT sausage (??? really? I do the turkey sausage, so is turkey bacon even better?)
4. * Yeast doughnut instead of a denser cake one

Lunch--

1. * Use 1 tablespoon mayo and 1 tablespoon low-fat cottage cheese to make tuna salad
2. * Choose BBQ sauce instead of honey mustard
3. * Skip the cheese on your burger
4. * Drink the 12 ounce child soda instead of the adult 21 ounce soda (think of what you will cut if you drink water instead, plus you'll save some change)
5. * Toss your salad with the dressing instead of pouring it on. You will use half as much.
6. * Skip the crackers and cheese on your chili

Dinner--

1. * Making meatballs? Mix half the amount of ground beef the recipe calls for with half as much cooked brown rice. Porcupine Meatballs
2. * Instead of 2 slices medium pepperoni pan pizza, choose thin-crust
3. * Fajitas? Fill one flour tortilla, eat it and then eat the rest of the filling with a fork (about 100 calories saved per tortilla)
4. * Substitute black beans for refried and hold the side of Mexican rice (saves about 250 calories)
5. * Opt for broccoli chicken over sweet-and-sour, and for steamed brown rice, not fried (save about 250 calories)

Now that you are saving some calories, to speed up the weight loss, turn up the number of calories you burn.
* Burn 50 calories by taking a 20-minute walk at lunch
* Burn 125 calories by shoveling the driveway for 20 minutes (and I did it for an hour!)
* Burn 250 calories by spending two hours making dinners for the whole week. (This is such a win win situation on so many levels!)