One of the biggest weight loss myths is that you have to make
huge changes in what you eat to get to your target weight.

Nothing can be further from the weight management truth!

Losing weight is about eating less than your current daily
calorie requirements. So if you need 2,500 calories right now,
you lose weight when you eat 2,000 calories instead. And all
this requires is small, acceptable, everyday changes. Nothing
drastic.

To prove this, we’ll use a few real life examples. In each of
these examples, we’ll start with an everyday food item and
replace it with a substitute that makes sense, so none of that:
“Want Ice cream - Eat Carrots instead” stuff. We hope that these
examples will show you how simple successful weight management
really is ‘ all it requires is a little bit of knowledge of what
you’re eating:

1. Fast Food:

A large Double Quarter Pounder Meal at McDonald’s will equal
1,600 calories. Change this to a medium coke and small fries and
you’re down to 1,200 calories. Take it a step further and get an
iced tea with your Double Quarter Pounder and Small Fries and
you’re down to 800 calories!

Now let’s think about this: Is going from a large quarter
pounder meal to a custom meal of iced tea, small fries and a
quarter pounder, a huge change? We don’t think so - Yet it’s
actually saving you 800 calories/meal!

You can also try a combination of a Subway Club Sandwich (at
320 Calories) and a Subway Mustard Ham & Egg Sandwich (at 310
calories). This delicious alternative will total 630 calories
per meal.

2. Ice Cream:

3 cups of ice cream = 850 calories. Replace 1 cup with 1
container of Jell-O and you’re down to 700 calories. Replace
another cup with a banana and you’re down to 525!

1 cup of ice cream + jell-o + a banana is a still delicious
dessert (maybe better than the original) and yet it makes a huge
difference.

3. Coke:

1 can of Coke = 150 calories. 1 can of Diet Coke + Lime = 0
calories. Adding Lime makes it taste great and gets rid of that
aftertaste as well. Alternatively add lots of ice in your
beverage and you end up drinking half the amount in calories.

4. Donuts:

1 Chocolate Donut = 250 calories, 1 Cream filled Donut = 350
calories. There is nothing wrong with eating donuts when
managing your weight, simply make a better donut choice.

5. Pizza:

The average slice of a large pizza equals 225 calories. Simply
go for the “thin crust” option, (and this is offered in just
about every large pizza franchise) and you’re decreasing 75-100
calories per slice!

We Hope We’ve Made a Point!

We simply can not go from a Large Big Mac meal to a diet of
apples, broccoli and spinach to lose weight. It makes no
real-life, practical sense and it’s simply not going to be
sustainable. Not to mention that it’s absolutely unnecessary as
well.

Getting to your ideal weight is all about making small changes
that don’t burden or completely change your everyday routine. We
hope our examples have given you a few ideas for your daily life
as well.

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