How to Cut Calories from Your Diet?

Cut back on your calorie intake and lose weight – it all sounds so simple! Unfortunately, however, it’s often the most difficult thing any of us try to do.

Using Substitutions, Supplements and Tricks to Assist You

It’s not that overweight individuals can’t make sacrifices in what they eat and even how much they eat. It’s more that trying to stay full and satisfied on acalorie-counting plan can be painful! You don’t know just how quickly 1,600 calories pile up until you actually start counting.

Seriously – that’s like a sandwich (on whole wheat, no less), an apple, an omelet and a handful of pecans for a snack. Even the skinniest, pickiest eaters enjoy more than that per day.

When you’re cutting calories from your diet, the idea isn’t to painstakingly count every single calorie on every single food item and play Einstein with the equation of fighting cravings = full and satisfied x 1,600 calories + inadequate food. You need some tricks and tips to help you along!

Tricks to Stay On-Track with Low-Cal Dieting

Supplements

Diet shakes and other supplements are a great way to stay on track without exceeding your caloric count. Why? Well, you’ll find that fat really packs in the calories! However, it doesn’t take a lot of fat at all to deliver calories, so you’ll find that something neither satisfying nor filling will quickly push you past your daily limit.

With a supplemental shake in your arsenal, you’re not getting any fat. You’ll be getting mostly protein (which isn’t as calorie dense), and other essential nutrients. This means you can enjoy more “filler” without more fat or more calories. You’ll be fuller for longer, get way more vitamins and nutrients than simply picking through food, and you’ll never exceed your calorie intake if you stay disciplined.

Substitutions

As mentioned up top with the fat and how calorie-dense it is, it’s important that you substitute for fat whenever possible. For instance: a low-fat mayo instead of a whole fat; no-fat milk instead of 2%; butter substitutes; sugar substitute; diet soda instead of regular soda; and even talking the yolks out of your eggs and using only the whites – these are all fantastic ways to cut down tremendously on your calories without cutting back on your food.

Consumption Reduction

You can use every tip in the world, but they’re all pointless if you’re not able to control your portion size. This means you will need to be fuller for longer and also fuller quicker as you’re eating. If you can’t eat less food, then you can’t lose weight!

A good tip to remember is that your stomach signals to your brain when it’s “stuffed.” Fluid will fill your stomach up; it doesn’t always have to be with food. Drinking a tall glass of water (power drinking it, like you’re in a beer league!) before meals will help you eat less.

Eating slowly will also help you to eat less, because it gives those hormones time to work and signal that you’re full.