Skinny Secrets Of The Nutrition Twins

Just swapping out some of your bad food choices for better ones could help. Tammy and Lyssie Lakatos, also known as the Nutrition Twins, stopped by with some key steps to eating healthier.

Breakfast:
Instead of: Cottage cheese with whole grain toast and butter (cottage cheese is thought to be the diet food but a cup has 240 calories and 800 mg of sodium!

EAT: For just 75 calories and and 62 mg of sodium you can have an egg. It is full of protein and one of the best ways to prevent hunger.

Whole grain toast is a great choice, but if you're not carefully reading labels your 2 slices of toast could add 400 mg of sodium, 1/6 of your daily allotment. Choose low-sodium whole grain toast and save at least 300 mg sodium and prevent cravings.

And still, instead of fattening butter, save your heart and waistline with Spreads like ICBNB light or other light spreads which are healthier choices than butter because they're lower in saturated fat and have no hydrogenated oils and no trans fat. Plus, they have half the calories of butter.
(Meal Savings: Cottage cheese meal: 550 calories, 1,300 mg sodium (1/2 a day of sodium) Egg meal: 325 calories, 262 mg sodium Difference: 225 calories, 1038 mg sodium)

Do this 5 days a week and Over the course of the year save 13 days of sodium and 17 pounds year.

Snack Time:
Instead of: Goldfish (1 serving= 150 calories, 250 mg sodium, 55 pieces is just a handful) or another processed snack

EAT: Pistachios-even the salted ones fall into our maintenance plan with 160 mg of sodium, half as much as the Goldfish. That's because the salt is on the surface of the nut, so you taste it immediately-- the sodium is not baked in. Plus pistachios are the skinny nut, you get 30 for 100 calories and you have to shell them making them a very mindful snack, unlike the Goldfish. Plus, the pistachios are satiating-one of the highest protein, highest fiber nuts.

Choose this snack daily and save 5 pounds a year and save 14 days worth of sodium a year.

Lunch:
Instead of: Smoked ham and cheese with mayo sandwich= 580 calories, 2,700 mg sodium-more than you should get in the whole day

EAT: Fresh sliced turkey breast on low-sodium bread, 2 tbsp of mashed avocado as your condiment And have some veggies and a piece of fruit =420 calories, 80 mg sodium

Make this swap daily and SAVINGS= 16.5 pounds a year and save more than a years worth of sodium! Save 397 days of sodium!

Dinner:
What about frozen meals? Are they all off limits? If you read the label, you can choose wisely and you can actually stay within the sodium guidelines for your meal.
Instead of: Stouffer's Chicken A La King (360 calories, 800 mg sodium)

EAT: Lean Cuisines chicken with Basil Cream sauce (290 calories, 420 mg sodium) Team this up with veggies and your entire meal will only cost you 1/6 of your daily sodium allotment, leaving the other 5/6 for lunch, breakfast and snacks.
Make this change daily and save yourself 7 pounds a year and 57 days of sodium!

The Secret to Skinny: How Salt Makes You Fat and The Four-Week Plan to Drop a Size and Get Healthier is available in bookstores.