The Best Ways to Cut 100, 250, and 500+ Calories

wow, incredible advice.

I suppose if you eat the majority of your meals out and go to the movies all the time, maybe these tips would be helpful. For as often as I get to go to the movies, I am going to eat the popcorn. sorry, these tips were not at all helpful for me.

Well Terri, I don't know where anyone else lives but where I live it's clearly posted at the ticket booth that you are not allowed to bring in your own food. Concessions are where they make most of their money... not ticket sales. Sneaking in your own food is stealing just like an illegal cable hook-up is stealing.

Nothing new! This has been said many times before. Moderation is the key to everything. The stress from being obsessive will kill you faster then enjoying a night out. In all my years and all the people that I have met, the ones who died the earliest have been the ones who tried to be the healthiest. Besides never enjoying life the looked terrible - no shape with saggy butts. Those that went to the other extreme of never being careful of their food intake didn't fair very well either. Who wants to see a saggy butt Jane Fonda anyway!

I can't believe the suggestion to sneak popcorn into the movies! Theaters do NOT make their money off addmissions - 80% or more of your ticket money goes to the company that produced the movie. Theaters survive on concession sales. You wouldn't bring your own food to a restaurant, or your own beer to a bar (where the cover charge pays for the band) so why would you cheat a theater?

What works for me to not have the naughty foods in my cabinets or fridge i do smoothies to full fill my sweet tooth & mostly Salmon ,turkey, chicken, i add things to the salmon to not have the fishiness like tomatoe olive oil & garlic, spices = glowing skin and staying slender

Off topic but I sure wish movie theaters would confiscate any cell phone that rings during a movie. And if one rings and the person answers it that person should be immediately ejected from the theater.

you wonz achieve nothing with this diet.. "take your own popcorn to the movies..." lol if you are on a diet you shouldnt eat popcorn at all..

Don't get caught sneaking your own popcorn into the movies because they'll kick you out!

Could someone tell me exactly what theaters let you bring in your own popcorn. Theaters make more money on concessions than the movie.

I am not surprised at the "bring your own popcorn" suggestion. A food critic on here wrote that she stole menus from the restaurants she critiqued. Her justification was that all the other food critics did it! Too lazy to take notes or actually remember anything. And she was not talking about little paper takeout menus. Pathetic.

Sneak in your own popcorn? Yea, and if you get caught, you get kicked out with no refund.

I mean, given the choice, what's better, weighing a normal amount or eating oneself to a standstill? If you're going to be foolish about something, make it about love or being creative...not about how much food you can humanly consume without bursting. Plus, think if you ate the popcorn from the movies...you wouldn't need to eat another thing all day!! What's so bad about that? Five dollars for an entire day's meal allotment and a bunch of great movie watching to boot...no can miss!

To lose weight is difficult and a lifechange in eating habits is essential. My first tip would be to find something to do that engages the mind more than eating. For me it was the computer that got my attention. My second is to give up sugar; it takes 72 hours to get it out of your system and then the urges get less. My third is to learn to acquire discipline by training the mind, starting with the little things. I got teased endlessly by online friends a few years ago because I used to eat two Brazil nuts every evening. This not only carried me from dinner to bedtime, but it was hard to stop at two. (Lost the weight and acquired a lot of discipline from this small task.) My latest test came up last week. My best friend gave me a tin of homemade cookies which she knew I loved when I went to visit her. I had to explain that it was one thing to eat them at her house and quite another to keep them in my own house without scoffing down the lot in one go. But I turned things around and decided to eat only one a day. As the days went by it became easier and now I can eat just one chocolate and stop. It's hell being a sugar addict but it's very satisfying when one can exercise self control. It's not so much the weight that is bothersome but the feeling of being out of control. I'm very slim now but I must say that eating the right foods in moderation (with the odd break) is one of the biggest things that contributes to my inner joy.

Another good idea for baking cookies in order to avoid extra fat (not to mention cholestrol) from eggs is to use smashed banana instead. It gives a great and tasty hint of banana flavor along with creating a perfectly chewy cookie!

If you cannot sit through a 2 hour movie without needing to eat something, you might as well give up now on ever losing any weight as it is not going to happen.

nice to tell us how to do small crime againsta movie policy.

Okay... If all the load of crap they put in dieting if supposed to work, why is my mother still starving herself?

I think it's a shame that you recommend cheating the movie theatres out of the revenue from popcorn. It's unethical and immoral to bring your own food. They make the majority of their money from food, not movie tickets. If you can't take the calories, eat your popcorn ahead of time or DON'T EAT IT, but don't advocate cheating.

She had me up until the substitute apple sauce for butter.