Weight loss

The low-cal diet

Put simply, the low-cal diet depends on the fact that in order to diet successfully, the important thing to take in fewer calories than your body normally needs.

What is a calorie?
The calorie is the unit used for measuring the amount of energy in food. A food calorie is the the energy required to increase the temperature of 1 gram of water by 1 degree centigrade at normal atmospheric pressure. If something contains more calories, then it will will give you more energy when your body digests it.

Low-cal foods include brussels sprouts, bell pepper, apricot, steak and burger based meals, and low-fat cheese.













Strawberry Apple Frost Recipe
Strawberry Apple Frost Category Drink Recipes 
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Ingredients And Procedures

1 c Yogurt, plain

1 c Strawberries; very ripe

-reserve 2 whole strawberry 1/3 c Apple juice; no sugar added

Artificial sweetener; equal -to 2 tsp 1 ts Sugar

1 ts Vanilla extract

4 -Ice cubes

Combine all ingredients except reserved berries in blender container; process until frothy. Divide into 2 stemmed glasses; garnish each serving with a strawberry. Per serving: 134 calories, 4 g. protein, 4 g. fat; 19 g. carbohydrate, 53 g. sodium SERVES: 2 SOURCE: _Weight Watchers 365-Day Menu Cookbook_

 
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