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If you are like many of us out there at the moment, trying to eat well and increase the exercise to lose those extra winter kilos, then this guide will help you get there faster.
While it is easy to gain extra weight, getting rid of it seems to be rather more challenging! Here are some small changes to incorporate into your plan to help you get bikini ready before you know it...
Swap your daily juice for a daily fruit
Orange juice is a refreshing beverage, but it is an easy way to drink down excess calories without gaining much nutrition wise and it doesn’t help keep you full. One large glass of orange juice contains around 180 calories. Swap this for an orange and a glass of water and you’ll save around 120 calories.
An orange also contains fibre that’s not found in juice, which will help keep you fuller for longer – more on this soon.
Go spread-less
If you put margarine on both slices of your salad sandwich you are adding unnecessary calories and fat. Cut it out and you’ll spare 60 calories and around 6 grams of fat.
If your sandwich is packed with salad vegetables, you won’t taste much difference either. Other lower fat and lower calorie alternatives to margarine or butter include low fat cottage cheese and philadelphia spread.
Go reduced fat
Reduced fat almost always = reduced calories (check the package though as sometimes there are surprises!).
Swap from regular milk to trim milk and for a 250 ml glass of milk you’ll save a total of 8g of fat – including 6g of saturated fat. You’ll also save on calories, with trim milk having 48 less calories than blue top. Low fat milk also contains more 62 mg more calcium and more protein.
Increase fibre
Those afternoon munchies can set back anyones weight loss attempts. One way to help keep fuller for longer is to increase your fibre intake. Fibre stays in the stomach for longer, slowing down the digestion of the other foods we eat. Fibre is found in wholegrain foods, fruits and vegetables – foods that are healthy and full of nutrients too!
Making these changes to your diet, cutting out empty calories (aka foods high in fat, sugar and calories but little other nutritional value) and increasing your exercise will help you shed those extra kilos safely.
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Swap your daily juice for a daily fruit
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