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Yes, there are practical ways to lose weight. You don’t have to go through the painful process of going on a diet. You don’t have to starve yourself or spend a lot of money on a weight loss program. You just need to make some little changes in your daily life and you can lose weight easily.
According to a nutrition expert, Holley Johnson, there are some easy ways to cut calories so that you can lose weight fast and easy.
If you’ve ever tried to lose weight, you know it takes effort. There are, however, some strategies that have proven results without taking up too much time or altering your daily routine.
These tips require very little adjustment on your part. All you have to do is to combine these easy tips with your diet and exercise to see quick weight loss results.
Watch What You Put Into Your Coffee
You need to watch your coffee calorie. The cream and sugar you put into your coffee can make or break your diet.
You are better off using skimmed milk in your coffee. Whole milk or cream has more calories than skimmed milk. Adding whole milk or cream to your coffee can immediately increase your caloric intake to about 400. On the other hand, you’d only be taking in about 135 calories with skimmed milk. That makes a lot of difference especially if you’re trying to lose weight. Related read: Bistro MD helps you lose weight the smart way
Most of the time, coffee calorie is overlooked. You’re too busy watching what you eat but you forget that what you put into your coffee adds up to the calories as well. Making this minor adjustment to your coffee habit can help you lose weight easily. You just need to watch what you put into your coffee.
Adding milk, especially whole milk or cream, to your coffee can cause your daily caloric intake to skyrocket.
So the next time you want to have coffee, reach out for the skimmed milk. Take it easy with the sugar as well. Pass on the white sugar and try some unrefined sugar. You should also pass on the artificial sweeteners. They will only make your coffee taste so much sweeter, which will put you in more trouble.
Artificial sweeteners will just excite your sweet tooth and you’ll crave for something sweeter than that. That could get you trouble if you’re trying to lose weight. If you really want your sweet, try putting some raw, unprocessed honey. The whole point is that you need to watch what you put into your coffee. That’s not too hard to do.
Walk Around
Holly also recommends that you walk around your house. This won’t take too much time to do and you can lose weight even without trying so hard.
If you did this for ten minutes every work day, about three miles per hour, you burn about a thousand calories a month and lose three pounds in a year.
You don’t need to do anything major with this easy tip. You don’t even need to get into some gym clothes and do some strenuous workouts. Basically, you just get up and walk around your house at three miles per hour for just ten minutes. You can easily do this while on you’re chatting on your phone. Related read: How Diet-To-Go helps people lose weight
Take It Easy With The Salad Dressing
This last tip is very easy to do and it’s also an eye-opener tip. It’s what you should do each time you eat your salads. And since you are trying to lose weight, you’re surely eating a lot of salads these days.
When eating your salad, keep the dressing on the side and dip the tines of the fork into the dressing …
This is a lot better than drowning the salad with dressing. With this easy tip, you will be able to cut about 500 calories easily.
These are easy tips for you to combine with your diet and exercise. Yes, they are very doable but you still need to watch your diet and you still need to exercise to lose weight.
You don’t have to subject yourself to such hardships as you try so hard to drop some pounds. Dieting is hard enough as it is. You cannot give up the little things just to lose weight. If you cherish your coffee moments, you don’t have to give them up. If you’re looking forward to eating your salad, go ahead and enjoy it. You just need to be more careful with what you put in them. In the long run, it’s going to make a huge difference in your caloric intake.
What little tricks do you employ to cut down on the calories to lose weight?
I never thought about coffee. Well it can’t help, we do love coffee in the morning but this could be also not good in our body specially if you’re set in losing weight. Thanks for sharing your thoughts Jenna.
I’ve stopped putting sugar into my coffee. Instead, I add cinnamon and nutmeg. It not only takes great but it smells awesome as well. It just takes some time to get used to it but you will:)
I read somewhere that cinnamon can actually help normalize the body’s sugar level. So your advice is pretty much well taken. Thanks.
These are great, practical, and very simple tips you have here. I didn’t realize milk could screw up my calorie intake. I usually take my coffee black but I really wouldn’t mind having some frothy milk in there. That is, when I have the time to prepare it. After reading your article, I will now choose the kind of milk I put in my coffee. Thanks for sharing.