Use lite margarine instead of regular margarine or butter. This will cut 50 calories per serving for your diet. With this one change you have already almost met the calorie cut to lose 1 pound per week.
Stop using mayonnaise on your sandwiches, and instead only use mustard or some other no-calorie condiment. Trust me you won’t really miss mayo all that much, and you will save 100 calories plus (depending on how much you normally use) per serving. If being without mayo is unbearable, however, you can use lite mayo and you will still be able to save 50 calories per serving.
When you bake, reduce the amount of cooking oil that you use by 25%. This won’t impact the flavor or texture of your cooking and you will reduce your calories significantly. For every ¼ cup of oil that you omit you save 400 calories. You can reduce your calories further by substituting pineapple juice for cooking oil in the same quantity. This will save you 1500 calories for every one-cup of oil that is replaced with juice.
Instead of making a sandwich on two slices of bread, make a sandwich on a hot dog bun or a small hamburger bun. Two slices of bread have 180 calories depending on the type of bread used, whereas a hot dog bun or small hamburger bun only have about 110 calories each. This is a calorie savings of 70 calories.
You can also save calories by omitting the bread all together and instead make a salad out of your sandwich fixings. If you normally have a ham sandwich with cheese, you can save the 180 calories from the bread by cutting up the ham and cheese and placing them on a bed of lettuce. You get the great rich flavors from the ham and cheese, and you are filled up by the roughage from the lettuce.
Make your ranch dressing stretch. If you like to drench your salad in ranch dressing, you can reduce the calories of full fat ranch by mixing one tablespoon of ranch dressing with a ¼ cup or even a ½ cup of salsa. If you normally use two or three tablespoons of ranch dressing, then this yummy mixture will save you 90 to 180 calories per serving.
As you can see there are many small adjustments that you can make to save calories and encourage your body to naturally and safely lose weight. Another tick to lose weight and eat healthier is to incorporate more fresh vegetables into your diet. Get into the habit of eating your vegetables first before you eat your main course and you will find that your hunger will be satisfied with less of the main course and deserts then if you didn’t eat any vegetables. This way you get a healthy mix of food groups and you still enjoy a good meal. Also drinking 8 glasses of water a day is a great way to encourage weight loss. Water acts as a natural diuretic and appetite suppressant. It also works as a great way to purify your system and improve the texture and condition of your skin and hair.