Switch to low-fat cream cheese on your bagel. Savings?
90 calories per ounce.
Love those fries and can't give them up? Swap the skinny
fries out for thick steak-cut ones. Thin French fries absorb
more oil than the thicker, meatier ones. Savings? 50 calories
per 4 ounce serving
If you'd rather look at losing weight from an exercise
perspective, you can also lose one pound a week by upping
your activity level by 500 calories a day. How easy is that
to do? Take a look:
Take a half-hour walk around the park. Aim for a pace that's
a little faster than a stroll, but not fast enough to be
breathless. Burn: 160 calories.
Get out your bike and take a ride. Tackle a few moderate
hills and aim for about five miles total. Burn: 250 calories
Go dancing - and really DANCE. The longer you're out on
the floor instead of at the table drinking up high-calorie
drinks, the more you'll get out of it. Dancing that makes
you breathless and warms up your body will net you a nice
calorie savings. Burn: 400 calories for one hour
Swimming is great for you, and a lot of fun, too. The water
resistance means you burn more calories, and you avoid the
stress impact on joints from aerobics, dancing or walking.
Do a few laps at a slow crawl - if you can get up to an
hour you'll be doing great! Burn: 510 calories
Get out into your garden. An hour of gardening tasks that
includes bending and stretching can burn up to as many calories
as a brisk walk. Burn: 250 calories.
Play a game of tennis. Hook up with a friend for a weekly
tennis game and you'll be amazed at the difference. One
hour of vigorous tennis is one of the best calorie burners
around. Burn: 800 calories
It’s important to keep in mind that all exercise/calorie
numbers are based on a woman weighing 130 pounds. If you
weigh more, you'll burn more. Want an added bonus to burning
calories through exercise? When you exercise, you build
muscle by converting it from fat. Three guesses which kind
of body tissue burns more calories - even when you're not
exercising. You got it - your body uses more energy to maintain
and feed muscle than it does fat.
For best results, mix and match food savings with exercises
that burn calories. Do keep in mind that eating less than
1000 calories a day for more than a few days will convince
your body that it's starving and slow your metabolism. Keep
calorie ranges reasonable, and consult a doctor if you want
a quicker, more drastic weight loss.
>>
Click here for Tom's Burn the Fat Feed the Muscle program
|