
Dieting doesn't have to mean giving up everything that you want or desire. In fact, there are easy ways to cut corners and calories from the daily eating routine that you have now. These ways are very simple and in some cases just its as easy choosing a different brand or swapping out one food for another that is very similar. In most cases, you won't even notice the difference, but you will when you start losing significant weight.
You won't need to take draconian steps to lose some serious belly fat, just look through the list below to see how you can cut calories from each meal or situation that you find yourself partaking of. Just be sure that when you start cutting out calories, that you don't start replacing them elsewhere. It is about balance, but even by choosing only 5 of the tips listed below, you would be able to cut out around 500 calories from your daily calorie count! So what are you waiting for? Start cutting calories now!
Ways to cut 100 calories at breakfast...
• Switch from the frozen, white flour, processed waffles to homemade wheat waffles
• Skip the whipped cream on top of any coffee shop drink
• Replace the pork bacon and sausage with the turkey equivalent
• Use non-fat cream cheese instead of regular
• By putting fruit in your cereal, you can skip the donut or pastry and not be hungry
• Eat homemade oatmeal with rasins and a little brown sugar instead of sugary cereals
• Eat only one half of the bagel instead of both sides
• Drink black coffee or an espresso instad of your usual mocha or latte
• Eat egg whites from multiple eggs instead of one whole egg
• Put honey on your pancakes instead of syrup
• Switch to skim milk instead of 2% or whole milk
• Eat wheat toast with jam instead of poptarts
Ways to cut 100 calories at lunch...
• Leave the cheese out of your sandwhich
• Eat cheese pizza instead of one topped with sausage and pepperoni
• Eat burritos made of corn tortillas and not flour
• Replace your usual beef burger with a chicken or fish sandwhich
• Cut out the soda and replace it with juice or flavored water
• For your salad, get low-fat dressing and skip the croutons
• Try to get a 'wrap' sandwhich instead of a normal sandwhich with bread.
• Replace your sweet candy treat with a bananna or apple
• If getting chips at a sandwhich shop, get the 'baked' version rather than the classic
• Have a chicken salad instead of macaroni & cheese
• Use a napkin to absorb the grease off your pizza slice
• Use light mayo and half the amount of cheese on your sandwhich
• Have a soup instead of a macaroni salad
Ways to cut 100 calories at dinner...
• Drink a single glass of wine instead of having a couple of beers
• For your pizza, go from a original or deep dish crust to a thin crust
• Drizzle extra hot sauce, not blue cheese or ranch dressing, on your wings
• Pulling the skin from a serving of poulty instantly trims 100 calories
• Get your burrito made with the smaller taco-sized tortilla
• Switch from a frozen, four cheese pizza to a primo thin grilled chicken caezar pizza
• If it is a chinese dinner, skip the crunchy noodles with your wonton soup
• On your beef and vegetable kabob, replace 2 chunks of meat with fresh whole mushrooms
• Squeeze some lemon juice on your fish instead of using tartar sauce
Ways to cut 100 calories at dessert...
• Eat your ice cream out of a bowl and skip the cone
• Scrape butter cream frosting off of the birthday cake and eat it without it
• Don't have the à la mode on the pie or brownie
• Switch the chocolate ice cream to light or fat free butter pecan
• Put fresh berries on your ice cream rather than chocolate syrup
• Replace the pudding with sugar-free Jell-O
• Avoid eating the bottom crust of a baked good. The bottom crust has absorbed all the butter used to grease the pan, so it has far more calories
• Eat oatmeal cookies instead of chocolate chip
• Choose a fruit pie over a chocolate cake
• Pumpkin pie is generally the best pick for dessert. Because it's an open-face pie and has less crust
Ways to cut 100 calories when you are cooking...
• Buy and use tuna packed in water, not oil
• Next time you make meatballs, meatloaf, or burgers, go half-and-half with ground beef and turkey
• Swap low-fat cottage cheese for whole-milk ricotta when you make lasagna or stuffed shells
• Making homemade mac 'n cheese? Cut 2 tablespoons of butter from the recipe
• When preparing packaged foods that call for butter or oil, like rice and stuffing, use a broth instead
• Substitute nonfat Greek yogurt for a serving of sour cream
• Instead of reaching for the shredded four-cheese blend at the super market, pick up a bag of shredded part-skim mozzarella
• Replace the processed white flour with whole wheat
• Cocoa is a great way to add the chocolate flavor without getting the fat and calories found in chocolate chips
• Use non-stick pans or a canola cooking spray instead of butter to grease a pan
Ways to cut 100 calories when you are not cooking...
• Request the lemon chicken with white rice, not fried.
• Choose the pasta with 1/2 cup of marinara instead of 1/2 cup of Alfredo sauce.
• Go with the baked potato, not the mashed, as your side of choice.
• Avoid anything breaded
• If you want meat, eat beef stroganoff, not meat lasagna
• Get grilled asparagus as an appetizer instead of the mozerella sticks
Ways to cut 100 calories at the drive-thru...
• At Jack in the Box, eat a regular taco instead of a super taco
• Downsize your drink. Go from a large to a medium
• Get ice-cream at McDonalds instead of DQ
• At Taco Bell, get a hard shell taco instead of any soft taco
• Get the 'Big Mac Snack Wrap' instead of the classic 'Big Mac' burger
• Get the skinny vanilla latte instead of the regular at Starbucks
• Eat your fries plain rather than smothering them in any BBQ sauce
• Get the 'Filet-O-Fish' instead of any burger
Ways to cut 100 calories when snacking...
• Dip your nachos in salsa rather than guacamole
• Eat kettle korn and not movie theater butter flavored popcorn
• Eat baby carrots with dip instead of potato chips
• Replace your regular chewing gum with its sugar free counterpart (This works especially if you chew multiple sticks per day)
• Skip the BBQ chips and eat pretzels instead
• Drain the heavy syrup from your fruit cocktail
• Have a handful of fresh grapes instead of a small box of rasins







