Calorie Cut
I found an article called “50 Ways to Cut 500 Calories a Day” via Lifehacker. They have some interesting ways worth sharing. You can check the article for all 50 ways, but here are my favorite:
1. Don’t clean your plate. Leave 25 percent of your food on the plate at every meal. If you normally eat 2,000 calories or more each day, you’ll cut 500 calories.
2. Get out your knitting needles. An afternoon of knitting can burn more than 500 calories (at a rate of about 100 an hour).
3. Clean house. Tidy up for 2 1/2 hours and burn 510 calories.
4. Think thin when it comes to pizza. Eat two slices of a medium thin-crust veggie pizza (360 calories) instead of two slices of a large, meaty deep-dish pizza (940 calories) and save 580 calories.
5. Tap your foot. Your skinnier friends are probably fidgeters, who burn up to 350 calories a day just by tapping their feet or being restless. Try it for a few days. Walk around while you’re on the phone, or tap out a tune with your hands or feet (in the privacy of your own office, of course).
6. Go window-shopping. Whether you buy anything or not, an afternoon of walking around and trying on clothes can torch 548 calories.
June
January 3, 2010 @ 4:04 pm
Nice!
Chris
January 3, 2010 @ 8:57 pm
3 and 5 helps to keep the pounds off for me. As a compulsive fidgeter, that naturally helps, but I’m always annoyingly being told-would you please sit still. Also been known to pace while reading a book, weird. btw Health.com, 15 chips!?, please.
Aseel
January 4, 2010 @ 10:58 am
I dnt agree with number 1 so instead of doing it how abt u buy small dishes smaller than the usual size…and fill it with food…
practically u r eating less bs psychologically u eat the whole dish…
plus use smaller spoons and forks…
Dawd
January 4, 2010 @ 10:58 am
you are so right Aseel….
Roba
January 4, 2010 @ 5:50 pm
Chris, my mother always bullied us out of fidgeting. I don’t fidget at all… I guess you have the better habit :)
Hareega
January 4, 2010 @ 6:31 pm
number one is bad bad advice: throw away more food, what an awfully bad selfish approach to a problem , how about putting less food on the plate, eating smaller portions