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For this week, let’s tackle something that may be a bit harder. Let’s reduce the amount of sweets we eat during the day. I, for one, eat way too many treats, so this is a perfect goal for me.

I’m not suggesting that you have to give up sweets entirely, but do cut down. Let’s say you have a donut or danish for breakfast; let that be all the sweets you eat today. Likewise, if you have cookies after lunch or dessert after dinner, choose only one per day and cut the others out. I know that this one may be difficult for me; I’m pretty attached to my afternoon chocolate!

Let’s do our best and see how we do for this habit. I’m betting that I feel better not eating so much sugar throughout the day.

These look very very good. Smoothies are great for a hurried breakfast, not that we’d ever have one of those around here… The peach raspberry and blackberry both sound great. I’d probably substitute regular skim milk instead of the soy milk. I’ve never been a fan of soy milk in general.

Here’s a trick if you find that adding ice to your smoothie waters it down too much. Either freeze the fruit, the milk, or both the night before. You really need something frozen to keep the smoothie from warming up from all the friction in the blender, but sometimes ice cubes can water down the taste a bit too much. If the fruit and/or the milk is frozen, it serves the same purpose, without watering down the taste.

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This is very cool. This page shows pictures of what 200 calories looks like for a variety of foods (chocolate kisses, jelly beans, puffed rice, celery, and on and on).

This might be interesting for you to look at, and a great motivator to pick lower calorie foods! After all, how filling can a handful of chocolate be?

Okay, okay…. I might pick the chocolate too on some days!

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Yes, this is a few days late, so I’ll probably continue it on through the next week as well. Sorry about that — I was down with the flu and got pretty much nothing accomplished.

For the rest of this week and the next, let’s replace one sugared drink a day with water, or if you just can’t handle water, something no- or low-calorie. I know I drink at least one bottle of sweet tea a day, and an occasional soda. I estimate I can save (more…)