1 Make eight simple swaps every day and lose up to 90 pounds in six months.

I, like millions of others, have expended a lot of effort trying to lose unwanted pounds. A promising morning can turn into a bad day if the scale suggests that extra pounds of fat are lurking somewhere about the body.

Let’s start with a little math lesson: It takes a shortage of 3,500 calories to lose 1 pound. If you have a deficit of 100 calories every day for a year—by either eating less or exercising more—you can be 10 pounds lighter in a year, automatically.

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