3 Ways to Reduce Calories While Keeping Flavor

This is a guest post by Nathan Joynt.

Losing weight always seems like a battle between the foods you like to eat and the foods you shouldn’t eat. But healthy weight loss doesn’t have to be the knock-down, drag-out fight to the death with calories! It’s possible to keep all the flavor while cutting calories on your road to weight loss with a few simple tips and tricks. Feel sated and stop depriving yourself. These low-calorie ideas will have you on the road to meeting your weight loss goals and enjoying every meal along the way.

1. The New Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwich
   

   Skip the reduced fat peanut butter, “light” preserves and “light” bread. None offer any significant nutritional benefits, as reduced fat peanut butter makes up for it in added sugar, “light” preserves are sweetened with chemical, unnatural sweeteners like aspartame and sucralose and “light” bread is still a high glycemic bomb that will leave you craving more. Make a lower-calorie, high-nutritional value treat with an organic, gluten-free bread like Udi’s and add whole fruit spread (available in many flavors) and a delicious peanut butter spread like Better-N-Peanut Butter. The delicious peanut butter substitute tastes like a blend of Nutella and peanut butter and has a mere 100 calories per two tablespoons (that’s half the calories of regular peanut butter!).

2. Skip the Salad Dressing
   

   Stop spending hours reading labels in the salad dressing section at the grocery store. Give your salad some pizzazz by getting a mister. These misters can be filled with olive oil or your favorite vinegar and allow you to mist salad lightly while saving calories and keeping your flavor. Typical “diet” dressings are filled with preservatives whereas a simple organic olive oil and vinegar combination is both highly nutritional and packs a lot of flavor in a small serving.

3. Croutons? Just Say No
   

   Crunchy toasted bread packs yet another high-glycemic punch. Try adding a ½ tablespoon of dry roasted sunflower seeds. (1 oz of croutons has 116 calories and almost 200g of sodium, ½ oz of dry roasted, unsalted sunflower seeds is not only enough to cover an entire salad, but has only 82 calories and 4 grams of polyunsaturated fats and Omega-3 fatty acids).

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