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Almost every single one of us wants to lose about ten pounds. However, those last ten pounds are sometimes the hardest to lose. Perhaps you just don’t want to put forth a lot of effort. Maybe exercise isn’t your forte. Or maybe you have been working out extensively but still have those last ten pounds to lose. You can lose ten pounds in five weeks if you try these simple steps to cutting back calories.

One straightforward tip to helping you cut back calories is to ditch the salad dressing on your salad. Typically a typical salad has 5 spoons of salad dressing, and each spoon usually contains about eighty calories. That’s 400 calories per salad. If you skip the salad dressing altogether, and add vinegar or lemon juice or something similar, you may cut 400 calories out of your daily consumption. For those who eat a salad every day, this adds up!

Another simple tip to help you cut back on calories is to exchange your whole milk with skim milk. If you drink more than one cup of milk a day, try trading just one cup of whole milk for skim milk. If you don’t drink a cup of milk, you probably use whole milk in your coffee, cereal, etc. Be sure to exchange the whole milk for skim milk. One cup of whole milk has 150 calories, whereas one cup of skim milk has 80 calories. So if you switch out your whole milk for skim milk, you will trim off 70 calories a day.

Another excellent tip is to eat your sandwiches as open-faced sandwiches. In other word, skip the top piece of bread on your sandwiches. If you do so, you will save about 8o calories per sandwich. If you…