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Simple Calorie Reducing Tips

Simple Calorie Reducing Tips

Like it or not, when it comes to weight loss, calories are important. To bring about weight loss reducing calories is an absolute must. There are two ways you can create a calorie deficit – burn more through activity or reduce the amount of calories you consume through food.

Rather than go down the rabbit hole of counting calories too soon, start reducing you calories by following these simple calorie reducing tips…

Food

Add more vegetables to your meals. Vegetables are low in calories, can be cooked a variety of ways and provide lots of fibre which keeps you full. By adding more vegetables to your plate you leave less room for more calorie-heavy foods, reducing the overall calorie content of the meal.

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Adjust your cooking methods. It goes without saying that frying, roasting, baking etc add fat and calories to a food, whereas grilling, steaming, poaching and boiling keep the calories the same or in some cases, reduce the calories by allowing fat to drain away from the food as it cooks.

Remove excess fat from meat. Simply cutting the fat off a steak, bacon, pork chops etc is an excellent way of saving potentially hundreds of calories. It’s a simple but very effective calorie reducing trick.

Eat raw foods. One of the simplest ways to keep calories low is to snack on raw foods such as fruit, vegetables and sushi. By not adding extra ingredients through cooking, raw foods are a way to keep calories low. You also damage fewer of the vitamins and minerals, making the foods morel mineral dense.

Opt for leaner cuts of meat. If you are a steak fan, try fillet as it is lean. More into poultry? Chicken breast is leaner than the leg. Opt for minced steak rather than generic minced beef as it tends to be leaner. Less fat = fewer calories.

Fruit for dessert. In the summer especially, fruit is at its juiciest and sweetest best and makes an ideal dessert – far lower in calories than most other options, more vitamin and mineral dense and higher in fibre. Go for fruit salad and easily save a few hundred calories.

Exercise

Walk more. Walking is an excellent ‘accidental’ calorie burner. Walking to the shops, to pick up the kids or even for the sake of it is a way of improving posture, mood, energy levels and burning extra calories. Why not chart it with a pedometer?

Cycle. Sometimes walking just isn’t practical due to time or distance. That doesn’t mean you have to take the car – get on your bike and shed a few extra calories! Locking up a bike is quicker, easier and cheaper than parking a car in most towns anyway!

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Exercise Early. I’ve said many times how big a fan I am of morning exercise. By getting up early you increase your metabolic rate at the start of the day, burning extra calories all day long.

Exercise at higher intensities. Hard work pays off. With high intensity exercise you will burn more calories which adds to the calorie deficit required to burn fat. One of the most effective ways of charting exercise intensity is with a heart rate monitor.

Lift weights. Lifting weights will increase muscle mass, which results in extra calorie burn over the long term. They key to long term fat loss is to increase your metabolic rate by adding muscle mass – this means your body will burn more calories at rest than it would if it had less muscle.

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Exercise frequently. Habitual exercise is vital to sustaining a calorie deficit. Some sort of daily activity, even low intensity will really help to burn calories and help to keep fat levels under control. It isn’t often you see an overweight person with an excellent exercise regime.

Follow these simple tips and you will create an effective calorie deficit very quickly and will see weight loss results shortly after!

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