6/12/10

Reducing Your Weight With A Low Calorie Diet

Low calorie diet can help you lose those extra pounds, just in time for the summer. The winter fat needs to be taken off, and can no longer be hidden under a heavy layer of clothes.

When you are stepping outside in a summer shirt, people are looking at the excess weight you gained over winter. You need to find ways to make the pounds fly away.

One option is to reduce the amount of calories you are consuming, as excess calories the body does not need are stored away as fat. Your aim is to eat just enough food, so your body can start burning stored fat resources.

A low calorie diet allows you to eat your food, but with low calorie ingredients. For example, if you like eating your salad with a salad dressing, then you can either replace the salad dressing with a low calorie salad dressing, or leave out the salad dressing altogether. Depending on the salad I like to make, I use a small amount of olive oil or vinegar to increase the flavour in my salads.

When looking for low calorie ingredients for your cooking, you should look for low calorie alternatives to replace your normal cooking ingredients. For example, salad dressing on your salads is normally high in calories, but you can purchase a low calorie salad dressing. Same goes for sauces. Many of the common sauces are high in calories, look for low calorie sauces instead.

If you cannot find the low calorie ingredients at your favourite food store, you can run to a health food store and they will have a wider choice of low calorie ingredients for your cooking.

You can also look at the food you eat every day. Rather than eating a burger with fries for lunch, you can look for healthy alternatives that are not full of fat, salt and high calories. Many fast food outlets now have a salad bar and sell healthy alternatives, to meet the customer demand.

Another option is to make your own healthy sandwiches with low calorie ingredients, to help you succeed in your low calorie diet.

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