Tips For Weight Loss

• SPRAY SMARTET
  
  Change out cans of commercial cooking oil spray and make your own. Spray cans of oil can be expensive. An inexpensive mister bottle holds your own high-quality oil for a fraction of the price and it tastes just as good.


• DO IT YOURSELF
  
  Most 100-calorie snack packs are smaller servings of junk food. Change them for healthy 100-cal snack, such as half apple, sliced and spread with 2 teaspoons or peanut or almond butter; 12 to 15 raw almonds or 10 dry-roasted cashews; 1 hard-boiled egg; or 2 tablespoons hummus with 12 cherry tomatoes.


• EAT YOUR CALORIES
  
  An 8-ounce glass of orange juice has nearly as many as two whole oranges. A whole orange has much more fiber (about 7 grams) and slows the release of blood sugar. It is also more filling.


• CHOOSE AVCADO OVER CHEESE
  
  Top your next bowl of chili with diced avocado instead of cheese. A quarter-cus of chopped avocado has half the calories of the same amount of shredded Chedder cheese, plus better fats and no cholesterol.