🌿 Got coffee with friends? Leave ¼ of it in the cup when you throw it away. It’s a reasonable amount that won’t make anyone suspicious, but it turns a 135 calorie medium latte into 100 calories.
🌿 You don’t need oil to cook vegetables. Just add a little water whenever it starts to stick. 1 tablespoon oil is 120 calories. Just saying.
🌿 Anything that potatoes can do, cauliflower can do better. 100 grams of potato is 77 calories, but 100 grams of cauliflower is only 25 calories. Mashed cauliflower, roasted cauliflower, you name it.
🌿 Cut the crusts off your sandwiches (if you eat those). That’s at least 10% less surface area, so 10% less calories and less space to put fillings on. And you really won’t notice that there’s less food.
🌿 20 minutes of yoga or stretching in the morning can knock off 50-100 calories right off the bat (it depends on your weight and how much effort you’re putting into it.)
🌿 Almost any recipe that calls for eggs can be substituted for egg whites instead. Pancakes need two eggs? Use 4 egg whites instead, which is 68 calories instead of 166. The only things this won’t work for are recipes that specifically call for egg yolks, like custard.
🌿 Drinking a glass of cold water burns 8 calories. If you drink 11 glasses of cold water every day, that’s 88 calories.
🌿 Throw away 10% of every plate of food you make. A 200 calorie meal turns into a 180 calorie meal, for example.
🌿 Craving ice cream? That’s packed with calories, though (274 a cup!!). Make your own, instead. Freeze one small banana (90 calories), and ½ cup of blueberries (42 calories). Peel and slice the banana, and put it and the blueberries in a blender/cuisinart with one tablespoon of unsweetened almond milk (2 calories). Blend it up, and freeze it for ½ an hour. 134 calories total (less than half of ice cream, and it’s fucking good for you.)
🌿 Put sparkling water in your juice. A 16 ounce glass of 2/3 sparkling water, 1/3 orange juice, is only 84 calories (16 ounces of straight orange juice is 224 calories). It still tastes like juice, just bubbly!
🌿 Unsweetened almond milk can do pretty much anything that cow’s milk or soy milk can do, for 1/3 the calories. It’s good in mac and cheese, mashed sweet potatoes, tea, coffee, baking, etc.
🌿 Order all salad dressings on the side and either ignore it, or dip the tines of your fork into it between bites. Way less calories.
🌿 There is a low-fat/low-cal/low-sugar version of almost everything. Find it.
🌿 Still hungry after one serving of a meal (especially dinner)? Make a cup of very hot tea and drink it as quickly as you can. It’ll make you feel completely full.
🌿 Want a tablespoon of peanut butter? Or cream cheese, or butter, or hummus, or whatever. Get 2 teaspoons instead (that’s 2/3 of a tablespoon). It won’t make you feel any less full or satisfied, but it’s 33% less calories.
🌿 Steal 0 calorie sweeteners from diners and coffeeshops. You can use them instead of sugar when baking, making coffee, etc. 1 tablespoon of white sugar is 48 calories. Get rid of it!
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