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How to Lower Calories in Personal Recipes

Written by Sky Taylor, Diet Bites


To lower calories and fat grams in personal recipes, opt for the following:

Reducing Sugar Reduces Calories

Substitute sugar substitute for granulated sugar, corn syrup and brown sugar or consider the sugar reduced products.

Lower Calorie 100% Fruit & Vegetable Juices

Look for fruit juices that are reduced in caloric values, as well as fruit preserves and jams. Every little calorie saved can work towards weight reduction.

Use Fresh Natural Fruits to Replace Fatty Oils in Recipes

Substitute pureed or mashed ripened fruits or cooked pureed vegetables in place of oil in recipes.

Natural or unsweetened applesauce as well as apple butter make lovely substitutes for fatty oil and butter and will render a moister result.

Note that the above weight loss tips all involve either sugar or fat.

These are the two chief triggers that are responsible for weight gain in the body.

Think about the foods that are contained in your daily diet - about how fatty or sugary these might be and determine which ones that you can do without, as well as which ones that you can't.

For example, Dieter Henry enjoyed his potato chips and dips prepared with full-blown cream cheese in the evening as he relaxed before turning in for the night. Other foods that he often included in his daily diet were pan style pizza, cookies, ice cream, candy bars - and he loved the ones with nuts, because after all, if they contained nuts then they had to be healthy, right? Fat and caloric values aside, of course.

He also enjoyed sugary soda as well as sweet tea. And he also liked fast food cheeseburgers and fries.

These were among his favorite foods and as he studies his list, he decides which foods he can live without in his new weight loss plan. Some foods - well, if he doesn't get his fix, then he is certain that his weight loss plan will become one of those 'fly by nights' type of diets.

Foods that Henry can eliminate from his plan include: soda, fries, candy bars, ice cream and cookies.

While he wants to keep the other foods in his weight loss plan, he knows that he needs to do some substituting for the caloric and fat values to minimalize.

He will no longer order the personal pan type pizzas, rather he'll switch his order to thin crust. For about 200 calories per slice, he can live with that. As to the burger, he'll still enjoy the burger - only the small version of the cheeseburger which contains one-half the calories of the large burger.

For his relaxation time, he'll omit the fried potato chips and go with baked. Better yet, he'll opt for the baked tortilla style chips. No more cream cheese dips either - he'll opt for low calorie salsa.

As to the sugary tea, he'll limit the amount of sugar or add sugar substitute. Tea has some health perks - so he wants to keep tea as part of his meal plan.

Henry hasn't done anything radical to his daily diet; he simply amended the unhealthy foods and turned his plan upside-down - to a much healthier level.

At this rate, he will march forward to weight loss results - quite impressive results at that.

Like Henry, you can make small changes in your daily diet to achieve impressive weight loss results.

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