Creating Healthier Weight Loss Recipes

For many people, one of the hardest things about sticking with their weight loss program is simply tolerating the food that's on their diet.

Deprivation when it comes to your favorite foods is a very hard thing to deal with, particularly if the diet food you're trying to get yourself to eat isn't doing much for you at all.

Luckily though, with a bit of thought and effort, you can dramatically increase the taste of your diet foods without adding a whole lot of fat or calories.

Some simple substitions you can make include:

-replacing rolled oats with half of the flour in baked goods
-using a sugar substitute product in place of regular sugar
-substituting in unsweetened applesauce for some of the oil
-using chicken broil rather than oil for stir-fries
-baking your sweet potato French fries rather than deep frying them
-preparing your own sugar-free pudding with skil milk rather than purchasing low-protein, high sugar prepackaged puddings

Obviously you will have to tweak around your favorite recipes to make them healthier, but do try and keep in mind that a very little bit of effort often goes a long way as far as bringing that calorie count down.

At the end of the day total weight loss will come down to calories taken in versus calories expended, so it really will at up.

For more information on simple substitutions, please see this post:

- Easy Cooking Substitutions

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