30 Ways to Cut 100 Calories, Articles, Fitness & Nutrition

Shave just 200 calories a day from your diet—or burn them off with simple activities—and you could lose 22 pounds in a year. Start with one or more of these easy ideas and you won't even notice that you're working towards weight loss.

Try these diet strategies…

1. Do You Crave Bacon?

Substitute two thin slices of turkey bacon (135 calories) for two thick slices of pork bacon (224 calories).

2. Become an Egg-Poacher

Poach two large eggs (150 calories) instead of frying them in one tablespoon butter (250 calories).

3. Skim Off the Cream

Pour four tablespoons of whole milk (60 calories) in your coffee, rather than four tablespoons of light cream (232 calories).

4. Try an Alternative Breakfast

Instead of one 85-gram corn muffin (258calories), have one 60-gram buttermilk waffle with one teaspoon of pure maple syrup and one tablespoon of whipped cream from a can (185 calories).

5. Lunch on Ham

Try a sandwich with 85 grams of ham (133 calories), instead of one plain hamburger (274 calories).

6. Drop the Pop

Switch from a 30-ml cola (150 calories) to a 30-ml glass of water (0 calories).

7. Add Some Carrot to Coleslaw

Stretch 250 ml of deli coleslaw by mixing it with two 225-gram packs of shredded carrots. Have 250 ml of this mixture (100 calories) in place of 250 ml of regular coleslaw

(200 calories).

8. Feast on Fruit

Pass on 250 ml of orange sherbet (270 calories). Feast instead on two large, chilled navel oranges (130 calories).

9. Pick Your Pie

Eat one-tenth of a blueberry pie (300 calories) instead of one-tenth of a pecan pie (400 calories).

10. Make Sensible Stir-Fry

When stir-frying, use one tablespoon of oil (120 calories) in a nonstick wok rather than two tablespoons of oil (240 calories) in a plain steel wok.

11. Trim Your Meat

Trim the visible fat from a 100-gram steak (100 calories).

12. Really Hungry?

Grill or broil a 170-gram slab of salmon (310 calories) in place of a 170-gram slab of prime beef tenderloin (406 calories).

13. Get a Small Fry

Get an order of fries (210 calories) instead of “super-sizing” (540 calories), or eat a baked sweet potato (136 calories).

14. Mix It Up

Rather than eating 500 ml of rice pilaf (400 calories), mix 120 ml of pilaf with 500 ml of chopped vegetables (less than 200 calories).

15. Cut the Cheese

Add protein to a salad with one sliced hard-boiled egg (78 calories) instead of 55 grams of shredded cheese (200 calories).

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