Ten Leaner, Meaner Power Lunches

Susan Yara at Forbes.com offers 10 great power lunch items that busy business people can eat without sacrificing taste or eating like a rabbit. Simple things like cutting the cheese from your mid-day hamburger or choosing thin crust over regular pizza can help you maintain, even lose the pounds. According to Jo-Ann Heslin, a nutritionist who co-authored The Calorie Counter, if a person eats just 100 extra calories a day for a year that can mean 10 pounds of weight gain. Conversely, consuming 100 calories fewer each day for a year will lead to weight loss or weight maintenance. The suggestions here are easy to adopt while rushing to your next meeting.

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