3 Tips for Spring Dieters

After a long cold winter months, you can break away from the hot stews and casseroles. Spring is here and here to stay, for about 4 months of the year. The growing of greens and veges are spouting out from the ground and growing for your dinners and lunches. AGH...Tomatoes, Carrots, Squashes, ... OH MY

Tip #1 - Veggie OUT
Eating a large low-calorie salad as a first course may help lower the amount of calories eaten in the rest of the meal. If you ate 3 cups of low-calorie salad before lunch, you can will eat ate less at your entire meal -- taking in 12% fewer calories -- than when you did not eat a first-course salad. The low-calorie salads included iceberg and romaine lettuce, carrots, tomatoes, celery, and cucumbers, fat-free dressing, and light mozzarella cheese. At big portions will make you feel as if you've eaten a lot, even if you're eating a low-calorie item.

Tip #2 - Get HOT
Hot cooked cereal like oatmeal has about one-fifth the calorie density of dried cereal. Hot cereal has just 300 calories per pound; dried cereals pack in a whopping 1,400 to 2,000 calories per pound.

Tip #3 - Think GREEN
Green tea is a healthier choice than soda. One can of regular soda has about 140 calories, which translates into 9 teaspoons of sugar. Green tea, on the other hand, has 0 calories (if you skip the pre-sweetened variety). Also, green tea, may stimulate the body to burn calories, in turn decreasing body fat.

Happy Spring to you!