Shrink your waistline without zapping your energy. These painless tips will cut 500 calories from your day the right way!
5. Tread Carefully around “Healthy” Dinner Choices
People release their inhibitions at seemingly healthy restaurants, underestimating calorie counts while scoping the menu. This oftentimes leads them to eat more, even after feeling full, or order drinks, appetizers, and desserts. Do your research before letting your guard down. Take the time to look over a meal’s nutritional profile before choosing it. It’s easy to fall into a healthy fare trap and end up overindulging in food that’s not as healthy as you thought. Skip the sides and calorie-dense drinks to save yourself at least 500 calories.
Our Skinny Ms. Recipe Collection Book lists dozens of healthy recipes to choose from.
6. Get Enough Sleep
Sleep deprivation can do some scary damage to your waistline. If you don’t get enough ZZZs, your once-active metabolism will fall to a snail’s pace, causing you to burn calories much slower than you would if you got proper sleep. Sleep deprivation affects hormones that trigger feelings of hunger and cravings for carbs. As a result, you’re likely to overeat and sabotage your weight loss goals. Getting more sleep will ensure that your metabolism functions at optimal speed and prevent you from overeating or experiencing deceptive feelings of hunger. To learn more about the magical powers of sleep, read How Sleep Affects Your Weight Loss. If you’re having trouble hitting the pillow, 9 Tips to Get Better Sleep has you covered.
7. Forget Takeout – Be Your Own Chef!
Cooking your own meals gives you a rush of pride and blasts calories. After grocery shopping for about an hour followed by an hour or two in the kitchen, you have more reasons besides that beautiful meal you created to rejoice. The overall process squeezes in some major cardio, torching at least 500 calories depending on the time you spent out and about. Make time to whip up a fabulous feast – your waistline and taste buds will thank you!
8. Add Eggs to the Menu
Instead of scarfing down a breakfast swimming in carbs and sugar, substitute your morning meal with two hard-boiled eggs. Eggs are bursting with nutrients and full of protein. They rank high on the satiety index, a scale measuring how full a food makes you feel. By simply eating two eggs in the morning, you’ll feel full and consume fewer calories throughout the day. The tasty food will speed up your metabolism and grant you lasting energy. For more reasons why you should feel good about eggs, check out Start Your Day Off Right- 3 Reasons Why You Should Eat Eggs, and Eggs- Nature’s Perfect Protein.
