10 Tips to Reduce Calories

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You can easily reduce calories every day just by making a few simple changes.

Here are 10 simple tips to reduce your daily caloric intake.

I’m sure you can think of lots more …

1. Limit your sugar intake.Sugar spikes your insulin levels and encourages your body to store fat Avoid foods that list sugar in the first four ingredients … Fructose, corn syrup, maple syrup, molasses dextrose, turbinado, amazake, sorbitol, carob powder

Cutting down on sugar can reduce calories by 100 or more per day.

2. Eat cereal for breakfast …

Such as Total, Special K, Cheerios, and Grape Nuts. Choose a cereal that is high in fiber and nutrients - but not laden with sugar.

Eating cereal every morning can reduce calories by 200 or more per day.

3. Drink good old-fashioned regular coffee

Forego the fancy coffee drinks and flavored creamers. Did you know one fancy flavored coffee can have as much as 500 calories? And it’s easy to pack an additional 100 to 150 calories per cup of coffee by adding flavored creamer. Use nonfat powdered milk in your coffee in place of cream.

You can easily reduce calories by 500 or more per day!

4. Avoid white foods

Such as white rice, flour and sugar. It takes twice as much “white” food to fill you up as their healthier whole grain counter-part.

Reduce calories by 100 or more per day with this easy tip.

5. Load up on vegetables.

Add vegetables to everything! You can fill up your casseroles, pasta salads, stir-fries, omelets, sandwiches - you name it with veggies. They also make great snacks. Dip them in salsa and you’ll be having a filling great tasting crunchy snack that has hardly any calories.

Reduce calories by 100 or more per day.

6. Munch on air popped popcorn.

It’s filling and low in calories - just pass on the salt and hold the butter.

Reduce calories by 100 or more.

7. Craving cookies?

Try eating low fat cookies such as gingersnaps, vanilla wafers, animal crackers and graham crackers.

Reduce calories by 100 or more per serving.

8. Craving sweets?

There’s several sweet tasting deserts you can choose from … Try frozen grapes or a frozen banana. Fresh fruit is sweet and full of nutrients. Have a bowl of Jell-O (add fruit to your Jell-O) and you can even top it with whipped cream for a delicious low calorie desert. Satisfy your chocolate craving by having chocolate pudding or drinking low-fat chocolate milk or hot cocoa.

Reduce calories by 200 or more per serving.

9. Drink V8 Juice …

30 minutes before your meal. It’s full of nutrients and is one of the few drinks that actually curb your appetite.

Reduce calories by 50 or more at your next meal

10. Cheat!

You need to give yourself permission to have a cheat day. On that day you can eat your favorite high calorie foods. This keeps you from feeling deprived and makes it easier to stay on track the rest of the week.

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