Fitness Challenge: Skip the Whip
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Fitness Challenge: Skip the Whip
| Thu, 03-04-2010 - 4:22am |
Here are some pretty simple ideas to slash some calories.
Do you have any other tips that you've tried ?
I'm not talking diet just simple little tricks.
SB FITNESS CHALLENGE: until next Thursday or a week from when you join: try to cut back using some of these tips or other ones (which you'll share with us so we can try also).
This is NOT to lose weight but to "train our minds and mouths"! LOL Who's in?????
By Kate Grip Denon, Women's Health

Calories can be cruel. Sweat through a 30-minute workout and you can torch 200. Take three gulps of a foamy frappuccino and you're right back where you started. But slashing those suckers can be as effortless as piling them on. Just look below to find 78 ways you can cut 100 or more calories at a pop. From picking the right slice at Pizza Hut to skipping the whip on your latte, they'll add up so fast, you won't miss a thing—until poof! Your love handles are gone.
Cut 100 calories ... at breakfast
- Ditch the Pop-Tart for a slice of high-fiber toast with strawberry jam.
- Gotta have carbs? Split a bagel with a co-worker.
- Drink your two cups of joe black. Or order a single espresso instead of your usual latte.
- Swap OJ for the real deal—one fresh orange.
- Trade a side of regular sausage for turkey.
- Top your waffles with Reddi-wip instead of syrup (or use sugar-free).
- Skip the whip on any Caribou Coffee 16-ounce drink.
- Eat your granola from a 4-ounce mug, not an 8-ounce bowl.
- Lose the Yoplait Thick & Creamy and have a Yoplait Fiber 1.
- Order pancakes, but hold the butter.
- Scramble together four egg whites instead of two whole eggs.
- Substitute nonfat cream cheese for regular on your bagel.
Cut 100 calories ... during dessert
- Stop eating when you hit the crust. The edges and bottoms of baked goods are especially caloric because they absorb the butter used to grease the pan.
- Fill your bowl with sorbet instead of ice cream—you can have an extra half cup of the former and still slash calories.
- Next time a cocoa craving hits, ditch the dish of chocolate ice cream (about three-quarters cup) for a Fudgsicle.
- Have sugar-free Jell-O instead of pudding. Better your nighttime treat jiggle than your thighs.
- Go ahead and have that piece of birthday cake—just scrape off the chocolate frosting first.
- Eat five meringue cookies instead of two chocolate chip ones.
- Pass on the à la mode and savor that brownie au naturel.
- Can the cone. Have your ice cream in a bowl.
- Top your dessert with a half cup cup of fresh berries instead of 2 tablespoons of chocolate syrup.
Cut 100 calories ... at lunch
- Leave the Swiss cheese out of your sandwich.
- Slather your bread with mustard rather than mayo and save 80 calories per tablespoon.
- Pass up croutons at the salad bar.
- Use up to 10 pumps of ranch dressing spray instead of pouring 2 tablespoons from a bottle.
- Devour a slice of Pizza Hut cheese pan pizza instead of the meat lover's variety.
- Take your iced tea unsweetened.
- Reach for a Snapple raspberry white tea instead of a Snapple raspberry iced tea.
- Stuff chicken salad into a whole-wheat pita instead of between slices of multigrain bread.
- Make your burger turkey, not beef.
- Slurp minestrone soup instead of cream of anything.
- Go bunless—shed your hamburger roll.
- Use south-of-the-border savvy: Have a quesadilla made with two 6-inch corn, not flour, tortillas.
- Two or more pizza slices? Blot off the grease with a napkin.


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I've been eating
A week ago Monday, I started a weight management class at our local Kaiser hospital.
What I am learning is great. First, eat breakfast every day. Make breakfast a big meal of the day (most of us know that already, but we just don't do it). Having some sort of protein in your breakfast gives your body a GREAT start.
So, I eat 1/2 cup of cooked plain oatmeal. NO sugar. No fancy oatmeals. Just the plain stuff. 1/2 slice banana. Poor 1/2 c nonfat milk. Milk is protein, but more is needed. So, I have a couple of eggs with it.
That's my tip for today. A bigger, but healthy breakfast with protein.
So true, good tip!! It is way not smart to skip breakfast!! It gives us go power as it's been way too many hours since we last nourished our bodies.
We cook and eat a lot of oatmeal too. I eat steel cut and husband eat's the regular kind. Sometimes he'll scramble an egg and cook it in the oatmeal. This morning he added some peanut butter to it too. We use Jif's Simply Jif peanut butter as it's only 3 sat. fats and 2 grams of sugar per 2T serving. He used less than that amount. I add raisins, cinnamon and sugar free maple syrup to mine.
Some great tips Suzan .. thanks!
I used to skip breakfast in the *olden days* Cissy.
I do also D and it's kinda fun to make changes...
AS for Granola,,, well I don't have a problem with sugar as for some reason I can burn that off , but fat....
HI Hilary you are back,,,
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