Food Substitution

When trying to limit the intake of calories obviously eating lots of fruits and vegetables helps a lot. I'll be honest with you on this one, I only like about 4 different vegetables which makes it tough. My advice on this is to slowly start substituting lower calorie items in.

A good example is to try buying low fat sour cream instead of regular. With sour cream I never notice a difference in taste. Although some foods just taste terrible if you buy low fat or fat free, like ranch dressing, in which I just stick to the regular kind.

Also try to substitute juices instead of pop which I know is really hard to stop the addiction to pop. Pop is a terribly addictive drink and doesn't provide any nutritional value to you. Juice will also contain a lot of sugar and other unnecessary things in it but it's about substituting things slowly so that you don't fall off the wagon when your urges for the unhealthy foods returns.

To start getting some fruits and vegetables in your diet if you don't already is to just take one item you were planning to eat today and substitute it with a piece of fruit or vegetable. Let's say you planned on having a sandwich and chips at lunch and instead you substitute a banana for the chips. Just 1 oz of Lay's Classic Potato chips has 152 calories while 1 oz of banana has only 25 calories. Both of these foods were looked up on the Calorie King website.

Give this a try for at least a week and see how you do. Try to continue this each week and always be on the lookout for other easy item to substitute in.