Calories, calories, calories ... Cruel little things aren't they? They are tenacious little buggers. Sweat like a sweaty thing through a half hour workout and you still might have only burned your way through 200 of them. So how valuable is it for you to know how easy it is to save 100 calories in various ways on your food and beverage choices through the day? I can hear you now - yes, yes! Yes please! Well here they are:
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1. Make an Omelet from 4 Egg Whites Instead of 2 Whole Eggs
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2. Forget the Cone and Eat Ice Cream in a Bowl
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3. Shove Your Chicken Salad into a Whole-wheat Pita Instead of in a Sandwich
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4. Choose a Clear Broth Soup over a Creamy Soup
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5. Pick up an Espresso from the Coffee Shop Instead of Your Morning Latte
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6. Make Your Burger Bunless
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7. Have a Turkey Burger Instead of Beef Burger
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8. Eat the Pie, Leave the Crust
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9. Swap Pork Sausages for Turkey Sausages
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10. Eat Brownies Au Naturel Not a La Mode
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11. Eat a Medium Orange Instead of Drinking 12 Oz. of Fresh Orange Juice
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12. Enjoy 5 Oz. of Chocolate Milk Instead of 5 Oz. of a Chocolate Milkshake
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13. Snack on 1 Oz. of Baked Potato Chips Instead of Regular Chips
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14. Choose 3 Oz. of Mozzarella Cheese for Your Sandwich Instead of Swiss Cheese
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15. Choose a Slice of Thin Crust Pizza over Thick Crust Pizza
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16. Top Your Salad with 1.5 Oz Reduced-fat Italian Dressing Instead of Regular
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17. Or Forego the Dressing Altogether and Use Olive Oil and Wine Vinegar Instead
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18. Finish Dinner with 1 Cup of Low-fat Frozen Yogurt Instead of Regular Ice Cream
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19. Add Vegetable Toppings to Your Pizza Order and Say No to Pepperoni
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20. Instead of 3 Oz of Regular Sour Cream, Use a Fat-free Variety
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21. Have a Quesadilla Made with Two 6-inch Corn, Not Flour, Tortillas
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22. Have a Piece of Chocolate Birthday Cake-but Scrape off the Frosting First
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23. Have a Fudgsicle Instead of a Serving (3/4 Cup) of Chocolate Ice Cream
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24. Have a Skinless Chicken Breast Instead of Chicken with Skin
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25. Have an English Muffin Instead of a Bagel
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26. Spread Your Sandwich Bread with Mustard Instead of Mayo
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27. Have Apple Slices Instead of 5 Crackers
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28. Eat 1/2 Cup of Sugar Snap Peas Instead of a Large Banana
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29. Eat Your Granola from a 4-ounce Mug, Not an 8-ounce Bowl
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30. Drizzle Extra Hot Sauce, Not Blue Cheese or Ranch Dressing, on Your Wings
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31. Replace a Cinnamon Roll with 2 Slices of Raisin Toast with 1 Tbsp Low-fat Cream Cheese and 1 Tsp Powdered Sugar. Sprinkle with Cinnamon
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32. Have Sugar-free Jell-O Instead of Pudding
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33. Eat Tzatziki Instead of Hummus
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34. Eat 7 Oz of Marinara Sauce Instead of 5 Oz Alfredo
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35. Leave the Top Slice of Bread and Butter of Your Sandwich
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36. Grill a Portobello Instead of a Burger Patty
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37. Drink 1 Cup of Diet Soda Instead of 1 Cup of Regular Soda
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38. Eat 2 Oz Pretzels Instead of 2 Oz Potato Chips
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39. Swap out 2 Taco Shells for Lettuce Wraps
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40. Eat Low Fat Greek Yogurt with Berries Instead of Sugary Fruit Varieties
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41. For Meatballs Mix Half the Amount of Ground Beef the Recipe Calls for with Half as Much Cooked Brown Rice
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42. Replace 1 TBSP Butter in Cake, Muffin, and Brownie Recipes with 1 TBSP Applesauce (and do It in Increments of 1 Tbsp)
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43. Have a Slice of Angel Food Cake Drizzled with Chocolate Syrup Instead of 3 Cookies
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44. Use 1 TBSP of Mayo and 1 TBSP of Low-fat Cottage Cheese to Make Tuna Salad
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45. Leave off the Crackers and Cheese from Your Chili
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46. Select Nonfat or 1% Milk Instead of Whole Milk (All Day)
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47. Pick Water-packed Tuna Instead of Tuna Packed in Oil
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48. Drink Wine from a Flute Instead of a Goblet
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49. Have a Margarita Instead of a Pina Colada
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50. Drink Two 12 Oz Light Beers Instead of Two Regular Beers
See how simple it is? Just with tweaking swapping, changing portion size and making smart choices, there are plenty of ways to save 100 calories. What's even better is that it won't feel like dieting.
Just doing one or two of these things every day will do you good. Are you going to start?
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