Easy ways to cut calories
- Planning on eating out? If you MUST eat half and bag the rest. An average restaurant entree has 1,000-2,000 calories. Remember that!
- Use a salad plate instead of a dinner plate. Smaller plate = smaller portions.
- Use a darker colored plate! It lowers your appetite!
- Never eat out of a bag or jar! You’re bound to eat more than you should. When dealing with jars/bags take the portion of what you’re eating out and put it on a plate!
- When eating a meal start with the lower calorie food first! It’ll make you filled up so chances are you won’t eat as much of the fattening stuff as you would have!
- Switch to 1% milk. If you drink a glass of milk a day you can lose up to 5 pounds a year. That’s not so bad!
- Keep a food journal! Once you see what you actually eat, you’ll want to eat less.
- Follow the Chinese saying, eat until you’re eight tenths full.
- Use mustard instead of mayo
- Cut back on sugary calorie filled drinks. Diet soda, water, green tea.. those are good for you, so drink those!
- If you must have a drink with calories, try diluting it a bit with water.
- Sit down when you eat, but make sure you’re sitting up straight. You burn 10% more calories that way!
