Even if you are on a diet, you can still enjoy your favorite sweets and other treats with unnecessary calories. If you love chocolate, cookies, chips or any other "gluttony", by following some basic knowledge, you can still afford your favorite treats, while still managing to lose weight and stay healthy!
Steps
Step 1. Calculate how many calories of sweets you can have in a day
About 200 or 300 calories a day is a reasonable amount.
Step 2. When eating sweets, check your portions
You can now purchase various cookies and snacks in 100-calorie packs. Not only are they all your favorite treats (Oreo, Ringo, Digestive biscuits, etc…), but they are packaged in single portions. Plus, goodies like Twixes, Kit-Kats, and Mikados are chocolate bars with very few calories.
Step 3. Buy sugar-free sweets
You can find lots of them in many health food stores. However, it is better not to eat them in large quantities (they contain aspartame and artificial sweeteners that make you crave real sugar, and can even cause cancer), they also do not help satisfy small cravings.
Step 4. Burn the excess calories
If you eat 200 calories of sweets or other useless calories, you need to burn off the excess calories you ingested. To lose weight, you need to consume more calories than you have ingested each day.
Burn calories
- Running up the stairs for 15 minutes burns 220 calories.
- Playing the battery for 1 hour burns 235 calories.
- Raking the lawn for 30 minutes burns 117 calories.
- Playing bowling for 1 hour burns 175 calories.
- Playing basketball for 1 hour burns 265 calories.
- Playing 1 hour of mini golf burns 175 calories.
- Fast jumping rope for 15 minutes burns 177 calories.
- Running 1.5km in 10 minutes burns 100 calories.
- Swimming for 15 minutes with light effort burns 100 calories.
- Playing beach volleyball for an hour burns 470 calories.
NOTE: The amount of calories burned is based on a 70kg adult. Calories burned are higher if you weigh more
Advice
- If you feel the need for something sweet, chew on some gum. Not only does it satisfy your desire, but it won't make you eat anything else while you're chewing it. Avoid fruit gums though, as they only make you feel hungrier.
- If you feel that you are craving for sweets, eat some fruit! Fruit is natural, unlike unhealthy processed sugary food, and can actually boost your energy. Find out how many calories are in your favorite fruit, and put it on your shopping list, so you can count your calorie intake.
- If you've already eaten and still don't feel satisfied, drink tea with honey or brown sugar. If you usually put milk in your tea, take the low-fat one or rice milk.
- If you make your own treats, choose those with honey, brown sugar, or products like Splenda from the "Measure" instead of white sugar.
- If you can, avoid places like Starbucks; replace those morning coffees with a fruit smoothie.
- Place a small refrigerator under or next to your desk at work and fill it with fresh fruit, vegetables and a low-fat sauce to dip them in, fruit juices (non-alcoholic!), Smoothies and yogurt.
Recipes
- To make a healthy breakfast, drink a smoothie, put 1 cup of low-fat vanilla sweetened yogurt, 1/4 cup of milk and 1/2 cup of fruit of your choice (such as strawberries) in a blender and blend until creamy. This is sweet and thick like a milkshake, but much healthier!
- For a fun custom mix, choose 4 or 5 of the following ingredients, put them in an airtight bag and mix. Always keep the bag handy for a quick, e HEALTHY snack that satisfies you.
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- 1/4 cup unsalted peanuts
- 1/4 cup of dehydrated bananas
- 1/4 cup of dried cranberries
- 1/4 cup of raisins
- 1/4 cup of dehydrated apples
- 1/4 cup grated sweetened coconut
- 1/4 cup of cashews
- 1/4 cup plain popcorn
- 1/4 cup of granola
- 1/4 cup of almonds
- 1/4 cup of cereal
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Warnings
- Always listen to your doctor. Always ask him for confirmation before following any important diet plan; he will give you advice and advise you against any dangerous or drastic method.
- Stay consistent, even when you reach the weight you want. If you gulp down a lot of junk food after several months of dieting, you could create problems with your metabolism.
- Never exaggerate with physical activity, or do complete fasts. It is dangerous and can be fatal.
