Weight Loss Tip: 25 Ways To Cut 500 Calories A Day

  • Limit salad toppings. A big salad might seem healthy, but all those goodies on top can make it more calorie-laden than lasagna or fettuccine Alfredo. Cheese crumbles, caramelized nuts, bacon, avocado, dried fruit, croutons, and vinaigrettes can add lots of calories. Save 500 or more calories by having just one topping, adding flavorful but lower-cal veggies (roasted bell peppers, grilled onions, or mushrooms), and using half the dressing.
  • Use smaller plates. Swap your 12-inch plate for a 10-inch one. You’ll eat 20 to 25% less—and save up to 500 calories. You won’t feel any less full, either, researchers say.
  • Skip the whip. Or at least size it down. Dessert-like coffee creations can contain as many as 670 calories, with large sizes and options like whipped cream, whole milk, and syrups. Craving whipped cream? Try it on a shot of espresso for a total of just 30 calories. You save 640 calories!
  • Count your chips (and crackers). No, you can’t eat your snacks from a large bag or box because it’s way too tempting to eat until the bag is empty. (Remember Oprah’s blue corn–tortilla chip confession?)funny-weight
  • Serve and sit. Family-style meals, with platters and bowls of food on the table, invite people to go back for seconds and thirds. Cut hundreds of calories by filling plates before bringing them to the table; leave serving dishes in the kitchen, too. A chip-bender to the bottom of a 9-ounce bag is 1,260 calories sans the dip. So stick to 1 serving, about 15 chips—that’s 140 calories—or pick up some 100-calorie snack packs and save 1,120 calories.
  • Skinny up cocktails. Syrups, sour mix, sugary fruit juices, and creamy additions turn drinks into desserts: an indulgent Mudslide can have more than 800 calories. Order drinks mixed with club soda, tonic water, cranberry juice, or a squeeze of citrus; or try distilled liquors on the rocks. You’ll save up to 800 calories.
  • Eat less pasta. One cup of pasta is just 220 calories. But typical dinner portions at restaurants can be as much as 480% larger than that 1 cup, according to New York University research. That’s 1,056 calories. Even if you eat 2 whole cups of noodles, you’ll still save 616 calories.
  • Limit dinner guests. Eating with seven or more other guests can make you eat 96% more food, says John Winn, PhD, author of Mind What You Eat. That’s like doubling your dinner! Dine with fewer guests to save 500 or more calories.
  • Don’t clean your plate. Leave 25% of your food on the plate at every meal, says weight-loss expert Jim Bale, PhD, author of The Step-by-Step Diet. Save what’s remaining as leftovers for a yummy lunch the next day. If you normally eat 2,000 calories or more each day, you’ll cut 500 calories.
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  1. Very interesting read, i would say as far as losing weight, things that matter most are:

    Keeping track of everything you eat, a lot people confuse the fullness factor(we'll get to that later) of some foods with high calories food, which could not be furthest from the truth, ice cream, nuts, chips, buttered popcorn and other things you mentioned contain high calories and are low on the FF, leaving you hungrier for more food, which would result in overeating.

    Creating a caloric deficit obviously will top every list( try to find your BMR then multiply by 1.1 to 1.6 depending on your activity level aka Harris Benedict Formula, and go from there, adjust the calories depending on a 1 week result or even a day).

    Fullness factor is key to a good and efficient diet, lets put it this way: the hungrier you are, the more likely that you'll overeat, consuming extra Calories that can quickly slow or reverse your weight loss, scientific research done, so selecting foods with higher Fullness Factors (usually foods rich in fibers and protein), you'll improve your chances of consuming fewer Calories, while simultaneously minimizing your hunger.

    PS: consistency is key to every effective diet.

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