Burn more calories than you consume. That’s it. It is predicted that by 2008, more than 7 out of 10 Americans are gonna be overweight. Is that scary or is that scary? If you are a gym instructor, you get to exercise everyday. If not, you’re just like everybody else. I for one, exercise only on alternate days. There are also people who don’t exercise at all. However, everyone eats everyday. It’s just a matter of how much calories we put into our body. Below are 24 super easy ways that you and I can follow to reduce calorie intake.
- Spread only jam / peanut butter on the bread.
- Boil the eggs instead of frying.
- Drink soy milk instead of fresh whole milk.
- Switch to bran flakes instead of Cheerios
- Save a portion of the candy bar for next time.
- Drink light beer instead of regular beer.
- Amstel Light
- Blatz Light
- Bud Light
- Busch Light
- Carlsberg Light
- Coors Light
- Heidelberg Light
- Keystone Light
- Michelob Light
- Miller Lite
- Milwaukee’s Best Light
- Molson Light
- Old Milwaukee Light
- Old Style Light
- Olympia Gold Light
- Pabst Light
- Eat Healthy Choice’s Jumbo instead of regular chicken frankfurters.
- Have Saltine crackers instead of chocolate chip cookies
- Eat only lean steaks about the size of a man’s wallet instead of the normal 8 o.z.
- Switch to air popped popcorn instead of caramel coated ones.
- Start eating fat free plain yogurt instead of low fat fruit flavored ones.
- Roasted is much better than fried.
- Cola diet was invented for you.
- When the craving for of vanilla fudge ice cream rises, satisfy it with the similar taste of regular vanilla ice cream instead.
- Home cooked food is always best.
- When eating burgers, eat it with onion rings instead of fries.
- Buy cheese pizza instead of meat & vegetable pizza.
- Instead of tomato ketchup, dip your chips into barbecue sauce.
- Replace pancake toppings of maple syrup with strawberry syrup.
- At buffet meals, appetize on breadsticks instead of garlic bread.
- Start eating wild rice instead of long grained white rice.
- Rather than drink a strawberry milkshake, make a smoothie of 2/3 cup of low-fat milk, 1/2 cup of strawberries and 1/2 a banana.
- Eat a turkey sandwich instead of a chicken sandwich.
- Choose tuna packed in water instead of tuna packed in oil.
Use the leftover butter to cook your meals instead. If you eat bread everyday for breakfast like I do, this will help a LOT.
35 kcal = 1 teaspoon of butter
35 kcal less consumed
Add 5 drops of soy sauce, 2 shakes of pepper and stir the egg contents in a small bowl. It tastes yummylicious.
235 kcal = 2 fried eggs
170 kcal = 2 boiled eggs
65 kcal less consumed
Fat free/skim milk will also do but it’s pricier than soy milk.
150 kcal = 1 cup of fresh whole milk
85 kcal = 1 cup of fat free milk
90 kcal = 1 cup of soy milk
60 kcal less consumed
110 kcal = 3/4 cups of Cheerios
90 kcal = 3/4 cups Kellogg’s bran flakes
20 kcal less consumed
For example, break the chocolate bar into half. Eat with either an apple, banana or orange. These 3 are commonly available high fiber food. The fiber will make you feel full, which in turn stops your appetite. Drink 2 glasses of water.
226 kcal = 1 bar (15 o.z.) of Chocolate
60 kcal ~ apple, banana, orange
53 kcal less consumed
Some examples of light beer :
145 kcal = 12 fl oz of regular beer
105 kcal = 12 fl oz of light beer
40 kcal less consumed
115 kcal = 1 chicken frank (45g)
70 kcal = 1 Healthy Choice Jumbo frank
45 kcal less consumed
96 kcal = 2 chocolate chip cookies
8 kcal = Saltine crackers
88 kcal less consumed
Share the rest.
610 kcal = 8 oz of lean & fat sirloin steak
170 kcal = 3 oz of lean sirloin steak
440 kcal less consumed
Indulge yourself with 3 cups.
152 kcal = 1 cup of caramel coated
93 kcal = 3 cups of air popped
59 kcal less consumed
230 kcal = 1 cup of low fat, fruit flavoured yogurt
110 kcal = 1 cup of 0% fat, plain yogurt
120 kcal less consumed
Imagine sinking your teeth into your favourite chicken part with less worry.
307 calories = 1 cup of fried chicken
266 calories = 1 cup of roast chicken
41 kcal less consumed
80 kcal = Cola
4 kcal = Diet Cola
76 kcal less consumed
Or if you have any other sinful cravings, you should check this out.
290 kcal = 1/2 cup of vanilla fudge ice cream
132 kcal = 1/2 cup of vanilla ice cream
158 kcal less consumed
Eat oven baked potato chips instead of normal potato chips.
1210 kcal = 6 oz of regular chips
147 kcal = 6 oz of oven baked chips. Here’s the recipe. =)
1063 kcal less consumed
360 kcal = large fries
175 kcal = 8 onion rings
185 kcal less consumed
1,215 kcal = 12″ meat & vegetable pizza
875 kcal = 12″ cheese pizza
340 kcal less consumed
40 kcal = 2 tbsp tomato ketchup
15 kcal = 2 tbsp barbecue sauce
25 kcal less consumed
205 kcal = 2 tbsp maple syrup
100 kcal = 2 tbsp strawberry syrup
105 kcal less consumed
240 kcal = 2 slices of garlic bread
40 kcal = 2 slices of bread stick
200 kcal less consumed
205 kcal = 1 cup of cooked long grain white rice
150 kcal = 1 cup of cooked wild rice
55 kcal less consumed
319 kcal = strawberry milkshake
150 kcal = strawberry smoothie
169 kcal less consumed
440 kcal = chicken breast sandwich
215 kcal = turkey breast deli sandwich
225 kcal less consumed
158 kcal = 3 oz tuna canned in oil
98 kcal = 3 oz tuna canned in water
60 kcal less consumed
10 replies on “24 Easy And Effortless Weight Loss Habits”
“Burn more calories than you consume. That’s it.” It’s really that simple. It was a great run down of how people who normally eat what is described in this list, can chisel away at what they’d normally be inhaling. And some people glory in the detail. Me? I like to keep it simple: Burn more calories than you consume. And that’s easy to do if you are only consuming clean, natural food: raw or cooked as simply as you can imagine. AND if before you put anything in your mouth you ask yourslef, “Am I hungry? Or do I just feel like eating?” Eat when you’re hungry, Drink (water) when you’re not. Spices are good, water is great, motion is terrific.
But if someone just stops buying processed food and only eats clean natural food raw, cooked or processed at home…then, hey they are going to lose mega-pounds and not need to count calories or minutes on a treadmill.
Instead of just eating less garbage. Or shall we say “food” with fewer calories per volume, I’d say, just eat clean food..you know home grown, un-sprayed, organic, un-doctored, non-medicated, non-engineered, animals, plant and their by products…all good. Just keep it clean and natural and the body will love you for it.
Love love love you for it!
Diet cola is filled with artificial sweetener, which could trigger allergic reaction and even (unfounded) cancer.
eat less process food like suasages, dips, pizza, fried stuff and even beer which offers nothing but empty calorie…
and don’t forget to exercise. the body will lose weight when they are in a negative caloric state…ie expenditure more than intake. Eat enough to maintain the BMR and burn the rest via exercise!
Thanks for stealing and using my bbq sauce photo without permission.
mouseybrat : do you want it removed or linked to?
If you will just attribute it to me, that would be fine.
Ooh, I like this article. It really shows the truth about what people should do to eat healthy. I myself use most of these tips, though I do not consume pizza or ice cream 😉
If you’re eating something containing a lot of fiber, you eat less because you feel more full. That’s why I like rice, especially wild and brown jasmine. Fiber is great, though you shouldn’t eat too much because it does act as a mild laxative.
Nice tips. =D
“Have Saltine crackers instead of chocolate chip cookies”
What?!
I’m lucky, I don’t eat most of this stuff anyway. But I’ll tell ya, saltine crackers are not going to curb my craving for chocolate chip cookies…
(Michelle) Feeling full will.
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nice
thanks for posting this~ this is really helpful