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The bests<br />
Best breakfast<br />
Starbucks Perfect Oatmeal with Nut Medley<br />
• 240 calories<br />
• 11 g fat (1.5 g saturated)<br />
• 0 mg sodium<br />
Best lunch<br />
Baja Fresh Grilled Mahi Mahi Tacos (2)<br />
• 460 calories<br />
• 18 g fat (3 g saturated)<br />
• 600 mg sodium<br />
Best snack<br />
Wholly Guacamole Classic (2 Tbsp)<br />
• 50 calories<br />
• 4 g fat (0.5 g saturated)<br />
• 75 mg sodium<br />
Best dinner<br />
Uno Chicago Grill Lemon Basil Salmon with Steamed Broccoli<br />
• 510 calories<br />
• 39 g fat (5 g saturated)<br />
• 1,030 mg sodium<br />
My buddy, Gill, came to me a while back looking for advice on how to banish the bulging<br />
belly he had acquired in his later years. I skipped the diet lecture and instead gave him a copy<br />
of the book, Eat This, Not That!, and a single piece of advice: Start with the drinks chapter.<br />
Four months later, Bill has adopted the simple food swap philosophy and dramatically<br />
altered his calorie intake without giving up the foods and drinks he loves. His<br />
reward: 25 pounds and three inches off of his waistline-in around six weeks!<br />
I told Gill to start with beverages because between soda, coffee drinks, smoothies, and<br />
booze, he was sipping away more than a quarter of his daily calories. He’s not the only<br />
one. A study from the University of North Carolina found that we consume 450 calories<br />
a day from beverages, nearly twice as many as 30 years ago! This increase amounts<br />
to an extra 23 pounds a year that we’re forced to work off-or carry around with us.<br />
There’s good news and bad news when it comes to liquid calories. The bad news is they are<br />
the most difficult calories for us to gauge, because we have none of the greasy, cheesy visual<br />
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