NEAT: A Great Way To Burn Calories Without Intentionally Exercising

By on May 5, 2013 in Calorie Tips, Healthy Eating, Food Facts, Food for Fun and Thought, Lose 5 Pounds in 5 Weeks, Manage Your Weight

Non-exercise activity thermogenesis (NEAT) is the energy you expend for everything that isn’t sleeping, eating or doing sports-like exercise. NEAT helps burn calories and comes from activities like walking to work, doing the laundry or yard work, cooking, or pacing while you talk on the phone. Most of us sit too much.  Someone who sits [...]

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Who Sets the Pace When You Eat With Others?

By on May 4, 2013 in Calorie Tips, Healthy Eating, Food Facts, Eating with Family and Friends, Food for Fun and Thought, Lose 5 Pounds in 5 Weeks, Manage Your Weight

You tend to mimic your table companions. They eat fast, you eat fast.  They eat a lot, you eat a lot.  Ever wonder why you look at some families or couples and they’re both either heavy or slender?  As Brian Wansink, PhD says in his book, Mindless Eating, “birds of a feather eat together.” How [...]

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Vegetables In Restaurants Might Not Be Low Calorie As You Think

By on May 3, 2013 in Calorie Tips, Healthy Eating, Food Facts, Food for Fun and Thought, Lose 5 Pounds in 5 Weeks, Manage Your Weight

Welcome to week #2 of the lose a pound a week challenge.  This week’s tips focus on how to save calories when you eat out. Are you afraid to eat out for fear of “blowing your diet” or because you think there aren’t good choices to be had? Are you tired of hearing that you [...]

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Chinese Food And Lots Of Calories Can Go Hand-In-Hand

By on May 2, 2013 in Calorie Tips, Healthy Eating, Food Facts, Lose 5 Pounds in 5 Weeks, Manage Your Weight, Takeout, Prepared Food, Junk Food

Are you going to have Chinese food?  Do you think you’re getting off easy because of all of the vegetables? Think again. There are 466 calories in a cup and a half of beef and broccoli stir-fry (and about a day’s worth of sodium).  One cup of fried rice has 333 calories.  If you also [...]

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Cutting Grass And Swimming Laps Will Help You Lose

By on May 1, 2013 in Calorie Tips, Healthy Eating, Food Facts, Lose 5 Pounds in 5 Weeks, Manage Your Weight

Activity burns calories.  Try to squeeze in activity whenever you can.  All those calories you burn up doing chores and errands count, too. Is your grass growing?  Try mowing with a push mower (walking).  That necessary chore burns 408 calories an hour. If you live in an asphalt jungle with no lawn outside your door, [...]

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Slim Down Your Sandwich The Easy Way

By on April 30, 2013 in Calorie Tips, Healthy Eating, Food Facts, Food for Fun and Thought, Lose 5 Pounds in 5 Weeks, Manage Your Weight

Here are some easy ways to slim down your sandwich and still have it taste great. Substitute mustard for the mayo and save 100 calories.  Leave off the slice of Swiss cheese for another 133 calories.  Ditch the two slices of bacon for another 84 calories.  Put your turkey, ham, or roast beef along with [...]

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Don’t Be Side Swipped By Smoothies

By on April 29, 2013 in Calorie Tips, Healthy Eating, Food Facts, Lose 5 Pounds in 5 Weeks, Manage Your Weight, Snacking, Noshing, Tasting

Day #4:  Lose Five Pounds In Five Days Don’t be side swiped by smoothies.  They’re may have some fruit and vegetables, but far too frequently they’re loaded with sugar. Unless you have a protein boost added (a whey protein additive at Jamba Juice adds 45 calories and ten grams of protein) or your smoothie is [...]

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Milkshake Or Strawberries? 650 calories or 50?

By on April 28, 2013 in Calorie Tips, Healthy Eating, Food Facts, Lose 5 Pounds in 5 Weeks, Manage Your Weight

Day #3 of The Lose Five Pounds in 5 Weeks Challenge:  It’s springtime – and visions of milk shakes might be dancing in your head.  A thick chocolate milkshake can have around 750 calories for a large (22 ounce) shake.  A medium (22 ounce) Burger King strawberry shake has 630 calories with 15 grams of [...]

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Think Twice About That Bran Muffin

By on April 27, 2013 in Calorie Tips, Healthy Eating, Food Facts, Food for Fun and Thought, Manage Your Weight

Tip 2 of “The Five” Pounds in 5 Weeks challenge: Think about skipping the bran muffin at breakfast.  Bran muffins are often thought of as “healthy”–  probably because they have the word bran in their name.  But they’re made with a lot of sugar and fat. In general, a 4 ounce bran muffin has around [...]

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The Easy Way To Lose 5 Pounds In 5 Weeks

By on April 26, 2013 in Calorie Tips, Healthy Eating, Food Facts, Manage Your Weight, Restaurants, Diners, Fast Food, Takeout, Prepared Food, Junk Food

Did you wake up this morning feeling like an extra five pounds of fat attached itself to your body — and you have no idea how it got there? Maybe there’s only four pounds if you challenged yourself to eating a bit differently and moving a bit more during Week #1. Take “The Five” Challenge [...]

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