5 easy ways to cut calories.
- Switch out the dinner plate for a salad plate. A great way to control portion sizes. This is especially useful if you like to prepare meals from scratch and tracking the calorie content of the food is tricky.
- Switch fizzy drinks for sparkling water with a lime in. If you like soft fizzy drinks that have lots of sugar in, a great way to be healthy and cut the calories without having the low sugar versions of the same drinks (which have artificial flavourings etc) would be to have some carbonated water and just pop a lime in to add some taste. If you don’t like sparkling water then a lime in still water works too!
- Try eating fish regularly rather than meat. Meat in a lot of cases has a higher calorie amount than fish. For example: Cod has 82 calories per 100g and sea bass 124 calories per 100g compared to steak 271 calories, lamb 294 calories per 100g and chicken thighs 177 per 100g. That being said you do have to pick your fish as salmon runs high at 208 calories compared to chicken breast at 165 calories per 100g. The goal is to aim for the lower calorie fish options over the much higher calorie meat options such as steak and lamb etc.
- Snack at breakfast or lunch rather than having a full meal. Most don’t need three large meals a day. Try and break the mindset that you must have a big breakfast or a sandwich, crisps and drink for lunch. Having a healthy snack perhaps a banana and an apple for lunch or breakfast perhaps a handful of nuts, a yoghurt etc is a great way of lowering calories. It’s important to pick either breakfast or lunch as it will be hard to maintain.
- Skip breakfast if you feel full from the night before. Sometimes we eat out of habit and routine/tradition not from an actual need for food. Skipping breakfast can be a great way to cut some calories out from the week and to also give the digestive system some time to rest. You don’t need to do this everyday but it is perfectly achievable for some on a regular basis especially if you’ve had a larger meal or calorie intake the day before.
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