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Want To Avoid Seconds? Keep The Serving Dishes Off Of The Table

By on May 25, 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

Do you skimp on putting food onto your plate thinking that it will keep your calorie count down? What happens?  You eat the skimpy portion – decide you’re still hungry – and then go back, maybe two or three times, for more. And if you keep the serving dishes on the table right in front [...]

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Eat More: Add In Healthy Food To “Crowd Out” The Less Healthy Food

By on May 24, 2013 in Calorie Tips, Healthy Eating, Food Facts, Food for Fun and Thought, Lose 5 Pounds in 5 Weeks, Manage Your Weight

Eat more food.  But make it the healthy kind.  Think about adding vegetables, fruit, and some whole grains into your diet rather that focusing on what you shouldn’t eat and what you should take out. We’ve all had the kind of day when it seems that your stomach is a bottomless pit and you can’t [...]

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15 Pretty Easy Ways To Burn 100 Calories

By on May 23, 2013 in Calorie Tips, Healthy Eating, Food Facts, Food for Fun and Thought, Lose 5 Pounds in 5 Weeks, Manage Your Weight

Want to burn some extra calories?  Try fitting in a couple of these activities in every day. A 150 pound person would burn around 100 calories by: Casually biking for 23 minutes Using the elliptical for 8 minutes Walking stairs for 11 minutes Doing yoga for 20 minutes Doing zumba for 11 minutes Doing pilates [...]

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Is It Coffee, A Frappuccino, A Coolatta, Or Dessert?

By on May 18, 2013 in Calorie Tips, Healthy Eating, Food Facts, Food for Fun and Thought, Lose 5 Pounds in 5 Weeks, Manage Your Weight, Snacking, Noshing, Tasting, Takeout, Prepared Food, Junk Food

When the weather heats up, the coffee drinks cool down.  Unfortunately, some of those delicious iced and frozen coffee drinks – whether they’re from a coffee shop or from a can — can really bump up your calories and fat grams. Keep in mind that you can always order plain old iced coffee or even [...]

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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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Free Food: No Money For Lots Of Sweet, Fatty Calories And Little Energy

By on January 22, 2013 in Calorie Tips, Healthy Eating, Food Facts, Eating on the Job, Entertaining, Buffets, Parties, Events, Manage Your Weight, Snacking, Noshing, Tasting

You have an early morning meeting.  Sitting in front of you is a platter loaded with bagels, danish, and doughnuts just waiting to be eaten and washed down by copious amounts of coffee. If you didn’t have time to grab some and if all the platters aren’t picked clean, the remnants will surely end up [...]

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Did You Forget These Calories?

By on January 18, 2013 in Calorie Tips, Healthy Eating, Food Facts, Eating on the Job, Manage Your Weight, Snacking, Noshing, Tasting

Are you keeping a record – virtual, written, or in your noggin – of how may calories you’re eating? Even if you’re not (and some people find it very hard to do – actually loathe doing it) you probably take note of what you eat each day – at least most of what you eat.  [...]

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Mindless Bites: They Pack On The Pounds

By on January 11, 2013 in Calorie Tips, Healthy Eating, Food Facts, Food for Fun and Thought, Manage Your Weight

Are you having a bit of trouble getting your pants to close – or maybe it’s difficult to zip up your jacket? In part you can blame those mindless bites – those “shove it in your mouth without thinking about it” bites.  Oh come on, most of us — at one time or another — [...]

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Why Your Mindless Bites Are Making Your Jeans Tighter

By on September 28, 2012 in Calorie Tips, Healthy Eating, Food Facts, Entertaining, Buffets, Parties, Events, Food for Fun and Thought, Manage Your Weight, Snacking, Noshing, Tasting

Are your pants feeling a bit tight and you can’t figure out why? It’s those mindless bites that will get you.  Each one of those “shove it in your mouth without thinking about it” bites is worth about 25 calories.  Do the math.  If you have four mindless bites a day above and beyond your [...]

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