1. Make small changes, save big calories.
Make slight changes in your food choices. This tool can save you tons of calories but still allow you to eat a decent amount of food. A few examples:
• Instead of 1 cup of creamed corn for 184 calories, eat corn on the cob lor 83 calories.
• Instead of 2.5 cups of pasta at 490 calories, have 1 cup of pasta mixed with 1 1/4 cups of steamed broccoli florets and 1 cup of steamed sliced mushrooms at 265 calories.
• Instead of an appetizer of five fried mozzarella sticks (500 calories), have 20 small steamed clams (133 calories). Just don't dip them in butter.
• Instead of 1 cup of granola (500 calories), have 1 cup of oatmeal with half a banana (200 calories).
2. Dodge coffeehouse sabotage.
Get this: A 12-ounce serving of cafe mocha at one popular cof chain packs a whopping 340 calories and 21 grams of fat. That's because it is laden with chocolate, warm milk, and whipped cream. To slim down coffeehouse offerings, ask the server to use fat-free milk the whipped cream, heavy cream, chocolate sprinkles, and syrups.
3. Put syrup on the side.
Rather than pour maple syrup all over your pancakes or waffles measure out a tablespoon and put it in a small dish. Then dip your pancakes or waffles into the dish.
4. Give ground beef a bath.
To reduce the fat in ground beef, brown it, then place it in a colander and douse with boiling water.
5. Cha-cha over to salsa.
At 5 calories a tablespoon, low-fat salsa isn't just for burritos anymore. Use it on baked potatoes and as a topping for sandwiches or vegetables. You can even mix it with fat-free sour cream for a creamy, zesty salad dressing.
6. Top salads with a guilt-free crunch.
Why ruin a perfectly good low-calorie salad with oily croutons; crush a crumbled-up flavored rice cake and toss onto your gre
7. Deflate the overstuffed sandwich.
When you order a sandwich-no matter what the filling-ask the amount they usually serve.
8. Play hardball with soft drinks.
Cut back or completely eliminate soda from your diet. Or at consider doing so. There's evidence that our bodies might not register calories we drink as well as they do the calories we eat. Liquid calories just don't appear to switch off our appetites. Which means that if we regularly drink large quantities of soda (or other high-calorie drinks), we might not eat less food to compensate.
Consider this study: Researchers asked people to consume 450 calories worih of jelly beans a day for 4 weeks and 450 calories' worth of soda a day for another 4 weeks. On jelly-bean days, these folks ate roughly 450 fewer calories, consuming no more calories than usual. But on soda days, they ate about 450 more calories than usual!
• Order a small or child-size soda instead of a large or super-size serving.
• Ask lor lots of ice in your soda if you order it in a cup. You get less soda and fewer calories.
• Get an extra cup and split a soda with a friend. If the waiter offers a free refill, ask for water.
9. Dilute fruit juice with water.
If you love fruit juice, beware. Depending on the serving size, you could he swallowing hundreds of calories (especially if you buy those 20-ounce hollies). To shave extra calories, dilute juice by half with water or seltzer. Or better yet, forgo the juice and have the real thing: fruit.
10. Don't "eyeball" oil.
Whether you drizzle your salad with olive oil or stir-fry your veggies with canola oil, measure it. Always. That quarter cup of oil you drizzle into the trying pan packs a hefty 482 calories. And if you don't measure it out, you're bound to add a whole lot more.
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