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WANT TO LOSE WEIGHT? FOLLOW THIS QUICK TRICKS |
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- Include two fruits or vegetables
in every meal or snack. You'll feel fuller and cut back on
calories from other foods.
- Eat breakfast. You'll be less
likely to overeat later in the day.
- Snack every 4 hours (try
oranges, apples, pretzels, string cheese.)
- Eat at regular intervals.
- Know your portions: 1/2 cup of
rice is the size of your fist, an ounce of cheese is a large
marble; a 3-ounce serving of meat is a deck of cards.
- Divide your plate: 3/4 with
vegetables, grains, beans and fruit; 1/4 with extra-lean meat or
low-fat dairy products.
- Make room for cravings. Have a
cookie now and then; just drop something else that day.
- Drink water -- a glass every one
to two hours will keep you full.
- Eat slowly.
- Cut 100 calories a day (replace
that candy bar with an orange and banana) and lose a pound a
month.
- Buy pre-cut fruit and veggies:
You'll be more likely to munch on them for a snack or make a
salad for dinner.
- Go for the less processed food
(potato versus chips, whole-wheat bread over doughnuts.)
- Don't eat on automatic pilot
(i.e. tasting while cooking, noshing from the serving bowl.)
- Limit alcohol to special
occasions. Not only is it caloric; it also stimulates appetite
and obliterates willpower.
- Brush your teeth after eating.
- Eat beans: add a handful to
salads and soups to curb hunger pangs longer.
- Sweeten with spice. Add spices
like cinnamon and vanilla to desserts versus sugar.
- Try a new food each day. The
flavor will save you from dietary boredom (add mangos to a
chicken dish, jalapeño relish to your sandwich, winter pears to
salad.)
- Go spicy. Get a hot flavor boost
with chilies, salsa and curry instead of by overeating.
- Don't even open the menu. Resist
temptation by just ordering the steamed veggies or something
else low-fat like a grilled chicken salad or a soup and salad
combo
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