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 eat one sandwich a day, you will save over 5 hundred calories in a week.

Do you drink nothing but water all day long? Nope, didn’t think so – who does? The problem is that drinks really add to our total caloric intake even though we really don’t notice them as doing so. Typical sodas have around 250 calories, and even those vitamin waters we drink to feel better about not drinking the pop have about 150 calories per serving. If you can cut those out each day, substituting with green tea or water with lemon – you could save yourself (and your waistline) – anywhere from 1500 – 2000 OR MORE calories each week!

On top of the four tips we have discussed, you can also do something else to help you on your path to lose ten pounds – eat less! Eat slower, allowing yourself to feel when you are getting full. Research has shown this can help you cut out a full sixty for each meal you do this with. Do it for all three meals during the day, and that is 180 calories per day, or over 1200 calories per week!

In five weeks, you can lose ten pounds if you follow those simple techniques: skip the salad dressing on your salads, trade your whole milk for skim milk, lose the top piece of bread in your sandwiches, cut out your liquid calories like soda and vitamin water, and eat slower. By following these simple steps, you can lose the last bit of weight without working out or drastically changing your eating habits.

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