Counting calories, eating right and still not losing weight?

Find out where you are going wrong.

You hardly indulge in those sinful burgers and barely go out for dinners. You track your daily calorie intake and you are conscious about what you eat. So how does the weight pile on you? Well, the fault may still be with your diet. Those extra calories sneak in when you think it is OK because it is just a bite or a nibble.

Chips

So you won't buy a bag of chips, but someone at work has it and you just grab a couple of chips.

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Ingredients	Calorie count
Potato chips	1 piece = 8.1 cal
Banana chips	1 piece = 10.7 cal
Baked tortilla chips	1 piece = 12.5 cal

You can instead go for these low-calorie office snacks.

Pickles

Your meal may be incomplete without that spoon of a pickle. But, that one spoon may be adding a lot of calories.

Ingredients	Calorie count
Mango pickle	1 piece = 14.7 cal
Amla pickle	1 piece = 55.6 cal
Onion pickle	1 piece = 37.7 cal
Brinjal pickle	1 piece = 39.3 cal

Replace your pickle with a low-fat yogurt.

Chutney

You cannot do without pairing your idli or dosa with chutney, but forget to add it to your calorie tracker?

Ingredients	Calorie count
Coconut chutney	1 tablespoon = 44 cal
Tomato chutney	1 tablespoon = 10.5 cal
Groundnut chutney	1 tablespoon = 61.1 cal
Pudina chutney	1 tablespoon =6.2 cal

Here are some low-calorie South Indian recipes for weight loss.

Cookies/biscuits

That box of cookies comes out when you want to have something with your hot cup of coffee. Here is the number of calories you will consume in just 2 pieces of cookies.

Ingredients	Calorie count
Butter cookies	2 pieces = 87.5 cal
Chocolate chip cookies	2 pieces = 197.8 cal
Milk cookies	2 pieces = 73.8 cal

Go for biscuits made of wheat flour like Marie.

Soft drinks

You must be warned several times on colas, but somehow you can t swallow your food without taking a sip of the cola. That one sip of cola can be adding these many calories.

Ingredients	Calorie count
Coca cola	1 sip = 18.5 cal
Pepsi	1 sip = 17.3 cal
Sprite	1 sip = 20.1 cal

Sip some coconut water instead.

Chocolate

Can't resist nibbling on that candy bar that your friend is chomping on? Well, before you indulge in it the next time, you may want to remember its calorie count.

Ingredients	Calorie count
Dairy milk	1 square = 22.5 cal
Ferrero Rocher	1 piece = 74 cal
Bournville, Raisin and Nut	1 square = 24.5 cal

Enjoy these desserts while on a diet guilt-free.

Sauces

Ever thought how many extra calories you are consuming when you dip that sandwich in tomato sauce?

Ingredients	Calorie count
Tomato sauce	1 tablespoon = 18.1 cal
Pesto sauce	1 tablespoon = 90.9 cal
Chilli garlic sauce	1 tablespoon = 38 cal
Schezwan sauce	1 tablespoon = 19.9 cal

Before you know it, your calorie intake in a day goes up by 215 calories, which means you have to skip a meal of roti and sabzi to make up for it -- 1piece of potato chips + 1 piece of pickle + 1 tablespoon of chutney + 2 pieces butter cookies+ 1 sip of cola + 1 square of chocolate + 1 tomato sauce = 215 calories.

So, the next time you indulge in these quick bites, do your own math!

These calories are calculated using HealthifyMe Calorie Counter, the world s first Indian nutrition tracker.