We’ve all discovered a few tricks for keeping calorie intake low while eating favorite foods. Here’s one of my snacking rules: If you eat it at a different time of day, it’s calorie-free. Pizza for breakfast. Leftover steak with Bearnaise sauce as a mid-morning pick me up. Another rule: Pie anytime you feel like it, except maybe not for dessert. (Only dessert contains calories.) And so on.
Recently Stephen King covered a sort-of related topic beautifully in his column in Entertainment Weekly magazine (link below) In this article, he explains how to reduce calories and enjoy favorite snacks. I believe every one of Mr. King’s suggestions is valid and besides, nobody says it better.
http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20315399,00.html
Ó Anita Garner 2009
Tags: Bearnaise, dessert, Entertainment Weekly, no-calorie snacks, Pie, pizza, steak, Stephen King
Wise words, indeed, from two unimpeachable sources. (Although you’re skinny and we fatties tend to dismiss all advice from bean poles with an eye-roll and a sniff.)
One trick I learned years ago is to cut my intake of calorie-laden goodies in half thusly: after I finish a beer, a brownie, a doughnut, a hot dog…whatever…and want another I wait a length of time equal to the time it would have taken me to consume it. In the case of a beer, for example, maybe five minutes. THEN and only then may I have another.
I am, therefore, drinking every OTHER beer, eating every OTHER brownie, etc. instead of each single one.
You’re welcome!
Well now I think you may have one-upped both Mr. King and me. I like your every-OTHER theory so much I plan to begin applying it this very day.