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Cutting out the Fat
Trimming Fat from Your Diet
By Crystal Patriarche
In addition to prioritizing food and watching how often you eat foods high in fat, Levine works with her clients to reduce portion size. "Eating a balanced diet and not overeating but rather getting the right portion size is important," she says.
Setting limits on your favorite things can help you cut fat without giving up things entirely. "Limit sweets to one small portion per day, about 100 calories," Bloom says. "So if you have a slice of birthday cake at the office, that's it, there should be none left for after dinner."
According to Levine, Bloom and Mahan, fat content in a woman's diet varies a lot, but most fat from a woman's diet comes from fried foods, chocolate, salad dressing, butter or margarine, peanut butter or things you spread on bread, cheese, ice cream and red meat.
Try some of these additional tips and tricks for trimming fat by these three experts to help you say goodbye to fat, or at least goodbye to the bad fat:
- Skip the cheese or go for the reduced-fat version. "No-fat cheese is like chewing rubber, but there are some good reduced-fat cheeses available," Levine says.
- Stick to vinegar-based salad dressings, use less dressing or order it on the side. "Use half the salad dressing your normally would or go for the fat-free or reduced-fat dressing," Mahan says.
- Instead of butter on toast, use reduced-fat cream cheese or goat cheese. "It's a low-fat cheese and it's soft," Mahan says. Bloom recommends using jelly and "hold the butter, please."
