13 Easy Ways to Save 200 Calories a Day

I have learned to save calories by eating no fat miracle whip, taking the yolk out of the eggs and dicing up only the white part of a boiled egg for tuna salad.
I cut out eggs, bacon, sausage etc and only eat cereal for breakfast or lowfat yogurt and granola and I only buy skim milk.
I skip desserts.
I eat fruit and vegetables in the place of french fries and junk food.
Its a lifestyle change and I learned I am responsible for mine.

yeah, even when i was little we used to sneak food into the theater, especially things like drinks. they dont check your bag, so as long as you aren't obvious about it, noone really cares.

You shouldnt deprive yourself. Fat is not the most horrible thing in the world. We need it. If you eat healthy regularly and exercise daily, then eat cheese on your sandwich and eat the fricken biscut with your stawberries. If it's every now and then, you wont gain ten pounds on the first bite. We all need to stop worrying so much about our weight and think about being healthy, no matter what size we are.

i think these are great tips, but i have to disagree with the coffee sans milk. i just can't give that up...and i use skim milk and sugar-free flavored syrup like hazelnut - that's about as healthy as i can go with my java.

It would save you those many calories a year if I ate any of those very often! I eat each of those things probably only once to a few times a year! Oh well.. it's still good to know, I guess.

Btw, I'm not sure if you're even allowed to bring your popcorn into the theatre. I was told to leave any food/drink items at the door before entering.

And for the expresso drinks, at least in Starbucks, it's actually 2% partially skim milk that they use for lattes. You could always ask for skim milk if you wish too.

Everybody seems to be saving on calories by almost cutting out fats completely. I presently live in Italy, where hardly anybody is overweight, and where people eat olive oil, real butter
and cheese almost every day. In limited quantities, but regularly, because everybody believes that natural fats in small amounts are satisfying, and part of a healthy diet.

I agree... I don't eat these foods very often... but the steamer idea is good to know, I think I will be trying to find ways to use mine more often.

Wow, I never cut my calories, I just can't! I actually eat about 5,000-7,000 calories per day and I'm a 5"7 155 pound male. My breakfast consists of 4 scrambled eggs with ham, onions and tomatoes followed by 3/4 of a pound of mashed potatoes, 2 bagels with low fat cream cheese, 4-6 pieces of toast, 1 bowl of cereal and 2 cups of orange juice. Two hours later I eat a foot long ham sub and drink 6-8 venti sized iced black teas with soy. My between meal snacks usually consist of 24oz smoothies (skip on the sherbets to lower sugar content) or 2 bowls of oatmeal and my last meal is usually 3 pita bread sandwiches with a bowl of rice and 2 cups of grapes or 2 bananas. Of course I DO NOT recommend this to the average person UNLESS you run 70-90 miles per week plus do 300-400 push ups per day. Exercise! Exercise! Exercise! and NO fast food! That's all you need to do!

These comments are from the Why am I alone club.

I don't even eat those foods. (except movie popcorn)
Other tricks I use are No Pudge Fudge Brownies (100 calories per serving and no fat)
No dairy no sugar, period, amen. (cleared up my skin and deleted my cramps)
No food that comes in a box or a can
I stopped eating cereal because I can't stop eating it once I start
No salad dressing, instead I use fresh herbs and lemon juice
Pay attention to the bread you buy. I LOVE Vermont Sprouted Wheat bread, it's simillar to splet breads, 60 calories per slice, loaded with protien and fiber and has no yicky ingredients found in diet breads, so I am satisfied and it's good for me. I look forward to my breakfast every morning. :)

I try to eat all those things but I'm still CHUBBY!

I sneak food into the theater. Just bring a big purse and don't be obvious.

"Spanish eyes: BTW, whoever was touting the 60 calorie-a-slice bread needs to find a new favorite. Sixty calories for one slice of bread is too much."

You don't normally read labels, do you? The average slice of bread is around 100 calories. If your bread has less than 60 calories a slice, there is absolutely NO nutrition in it, it's all water and no whole grains. Many of the "light" breads are still in the 60 calorie range, but contain ENRICHED WHEAT (that's white flour), corn syrup, and sugar. You should be able to see the whole grains in your bread. Whole grains are nutrient dense, but also contain calories. Calories are not the enemy. If you're eating nutrient-lacking bread that's only 40 calories a slice, you'll be starving within an hour.

these are great tips, and i actually use some of these.
Just to be off topic though wouldn't the first one say substitue mayo for yogurt?

Not trying to create an upstir...but what are we teaching our children when they see us sneak food into the movie theatre when the sign states "No outside food or drink"...We're not teaching them any moral values or responsibility. If we teach them to cheat in just a "little area"..where does it end..

Taking your own popcorn to the theatre may in theory be good, but it hurt the theatre, not to mention you are telling people not to follow the rules theatres have. The theatre is kept open by the concessions sells, not ticket sells. Most of the ticket money goes to the film companies and the theare's doors are kept open from the concession money, do get a bottle of water from concessions and wait to eat till after the movie. Plus eatting while you watch sets up bad habit of having to have food while you watch not only movies, but TV too. So don't break the rules of a business, just find something at the concessions that will work for you.
Enjoy the movies!

There's an old saying... at breakfast, eat like a king. At lunch, eat like a prince, and at dinner, eat like a pauper. I eat whatever I please for breakfast because I will burn it off, and I need staying power to get me to lunch. At lunch, I usually have a half sandwich and a piece of fruit. Dinner is a salad with low cal soup or a wrap or broiled fish fillet with steamed veggies. I don't do snacks or sodas.

I have learned to save calories by eating no fat miracle whip, taking the yolk out of the eggs and dicing up only the white part of a boiled egg for tuna salad.
I cut out eggs, bacon, sausage etc and only eat cereal for breakfast or lowfat yogurt and granola and I only buy skim milk.
I skip desserts.
I eat fruit and vegetables in the place of french fries and junk food.
Its a lifestyle change and I learned I am responsible for mine.

Good to have some suggestions about healthy .I did excerises ate some nutritions food.Right now I'm very healthy and positive thinking.I can do the Good things to the people around me.

I have learned to save calories by eating no fat miracle whip, taking the yolk out of the eggs and dicing up only the white part of a boiled egg for tuna salad.
I cut out eggs, bacon, sausage etc and only eat cereal for breakfast or lowfat yogurt and granola and I only buy skim milk.
I skip desserts.
I eat fruit and vegetables in the place of french fries and junk food.
Its a lifestyle change and I learned I am responsible for mine.