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What are your small weight loss hacks?
sfcrocker
Posts: 163 Member
I've been parking in the lot half a mile from the office so I have to walk an extra mile a day to and from my car. I also park on a higher floor and use the stairs instead of the elevator. What are your small weight loss hacks?
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Is it REALLY worth the calories to me right now?5
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I know it's a given but I have finally come to realize this after years of not caring about what I ate for breakfast.
I have finally realized that if I eat a high protein big breakfast, I won't snack throughout the whole day! Less calories consumed! I'm a terrible snacker!7 -
- Sugar-free jelly (that's jello to our american cousins)
- 3L water/ day
- walking around the block when I leave my desk to have a vape
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When I want to eat chocolate or snack but I already ate, I walk for like 20 minutes or pet my cat, she demands attention.3
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Meal prep! And deff eating before I go to the store, other wise I buy all of isle 11.6
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I rarely eat a big breakfast: it makes me ravenous all day and I end up going over on cals.4
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Eating a half sandwich, all the filling just half the bread.3
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Greek yogurt instead of sour cream. Parking across campus from where my class is. Taking the stairs instead of the elevator.3
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don't eat breakfast until as late as I can stand it10
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Consume less, enjoy more.
Sometimes that means paying more for higher quality (e.g. being happy to drink half as much wine that costs twice as much). Sometimes it means paying more attention (e.g. the whole bowl of tortilla chips with salsa doesn't taste better than a few, with the added benefit of not getting full before my meal arrives). Most of the time it means not wasting calories on anything I don't REALLY enjoy.8 -
Walking up and down the platform when waiting for the train.2
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Eating breakfast as late as possible
Bulking all meals with lots of veggies
Bulking pasta with courgette noodles
Walking a lot1 -
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1.Eating breakfast late, but never skipping meals.
2.BULK everything with yummy spinach. pasta primavera? more spinach. sandwich? more spinach. i love spinach.
3.okay this one can get a little obsessive but: exercising in the cold. your body burns calories trying to keep warm so if you have a proper sweatshirt, the middle of january is never an excuse to not run! lol
4.eat fruit when you're hungry
5.chug water- you might still feel a little low blood sugar but you won't actually want anything in your stomach
WALK EVERYWHERE i walk to and from school thats an extra 210 cal burned EVERYDAY so even if i dont go to the gym, i still got a decent workout
6.doing frequent weigh ins actually motivates me a lot
7.also when you're at the gym, don't do one thing for too long and take breaks. FOR INSTANCE: my workout is 10 min treadmill, 10 min elliptical, 10 min bike (take a break, do some sit ups, squats and strength machines) THEN repeat the whole thing instead of just doing 20 min on each machine because you will feel sore and get bored5 -
Healthy soups! I'm always surprised at how much eating a cup of soup either at lunch or dinner helps to fill me up and saves calories. Minestrone, lentil soup, tomato bisque...3
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I like Ken's Steakhouse light Caesar vinegrette. The oil floating on the top of it grosses me out, so I pour it off. I have no idea how much it reduces the calorie count, but I figure it won't hurt to pour it off.1
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1. Treadmill desk--I work from home and love this!!
2. Greek yogurt as afternoon snack--yummy, low cal, and keeps me full until dinner.
3. IF--I don't eat until 1pm. Condenses my calories into shorter amount of time.
4. Black coffee with a small square of chocolate --about 60 calories. I have this twice a day, and it keeps me from otherwise snacking on higher calorie foods.2 -
Ooh, I have another one I recently discovered--salsa or hot sauce on salad! It takes the place of dressing or olive oil, with almost no calories. And I like it more than dressing. I especially love Trader Joe's Green Dragon Hot Sauce for this! But I do like things spicy.3
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1. Eat lots of nutritionally dense foods.
2. Pack in the fiber-rich veggies & fruit making them a focus (e.g., a heaping portion of broccoli w meal) as well as little extra add-ins (e.g., some raw spinach in a smoothie--you can't even taste it).
3. Feeling hungry between meals? Eat a nearly calorie-free food/drink like grapefruit (52 cal), cranberries (46 cal), sugar snap peas (35 cal), coffee w unsweetened vanilla almond milk (11 cal), spicy dill pickles (5 cal!) or herbal tea (0 cal).
4. Steamed veggies without dressing or oil/fat mean eating fantastic full fat cheese & avocados without going over fat macros. +Veggies start to taste subtly sweet when you don't overcook/under-cook them & you don't drown them in added things.1 -
Diet soda, gum, hot sauce instead of salad dressings, high volume meals (veg and lean protein), hot tea, My Protein flavor drops2
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