{"id":43999,"date":"2015-09-30T09:15:07","date_gmt":"2015-09-30T13:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dailyburn.com\/life\/?p=43999"},"modified":"2016-07-14T16:05:34","modified_gmt":"2016-07-14T20:05:34","slug":"healthy-pizza-calories-hack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyburn.com\/life\/health\/healthy-pizza-calories-hack\/","title":{"rendered":"The Two-Second Trick to Slash Calories From Your Pizza"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_44000\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-44000\" style=\"width: 620px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-44000 size-full\" title=\"Pizza Calories Lessen When Blotted\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn-life.dailyburn.com\/life\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/10035658\/pizza-620.jpg\" alt=\"Pizza Calories Lessen When Blotted\" width=\"620\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn-life.dailyburn.com\/life\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/10035658\/pizza-620.jpg 620w, https:\/\/cdn-life.dailyburn.com\/life\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/10035658\/pizza-620-300x194.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-44000\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pond5.com\/photo\/42985690\/hot-homemade-pepperoni-pizza.html\" target=\"_blank\">Pond5<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Even though we preach healthy eating here at DailyBurn, we\u2019re not immune to <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyburn.com\/life\/health\/pros-and-cons-cheat-day-diet\/\" target=\"_blank\">splurging from time to time<\/a> \u2014 especially on something as delicious as pizza. (Plus, we\u2019re based in New York City \u2014 where we\u2019ve got the best pies on Earth!)<\/p>\n<p>While it\u2019s easy to cook up a wealth of <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyburn.com\/life\/recipes\/low-carb-pizza-recipes\/\" target=\"_blank\">low-carb options<\/a> at home, restaurant pizza is often served up hot \u2014\u00a0and greasy. And now that pizza season (errrr, football season) is here, we\u2019re expecting a lot more slices to start appearing on our plates.<\/p>\n<p><strong>RELATED: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailyburn.com\/life\/recipes\/prosciutto-pizza\/\" target=\"_blank\">Pear and Prosciutto Pizza Recipe<\/a><\/p>\n<p>But in order to stave off extra calories and fat, some of us (slowly raises hand) have been conditioned to blot the grease off with napkins, almost ritualistically. And while we were never really sure how well that method worked, the folks over at <a href=\"https:\/\/labdoor.com\/article\/how-many-calories-does-dabbing-the-grease-off-a-pizza-slice-save-you\" target=\"_blank\">Labdoor<\/a> took a closer look.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ll let you read through their findings in the infographic below (who knew Americans eat 23 pounds of the cheesy stuff each year?). But the bottom line is that you could potentially lose <em>two pounds<\/em> a year by just blotting every single one of your slices. Literally. That\u2019s it. How could you say no to using that napkin now?<\/p>\n<h3>How to Slash Your Pizza Calories, Stat<\/h3>\n<figure id=\"attachment_44003\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-44003\" style=\"width: 620px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-44003 size-full\" title=\"Infographic on Blotting Pizza for Less Calories and Fat\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn-life.dailyburn.com\/life\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/10035656\/pizza-infographic.jpg\" alt=\"Infographic on Blotting Pizza for Less Calories and Fat\" width=\"620\" height=\"2562\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn-life.dailyburn.com\/life\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/10035656\/pizza-infographic.jpg 620w, https:\/\/cdn-life.dailyburn.com\/life\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/10035656\/pizza-infographic-248x1024.jpg 248w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-44003\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Infographic: <a href=\"https:\/\/labdoor.com\/article\/how-many-calories-does-dabbing-the-grease-off-a-pizza-slice-save-you\" target=\"_blank\">Labdoor<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever wonder how you can shave a few calories off a slice of pizza \u2014 without sacrificing flavor? This sneaky trick could potentially help you lose two pounds a year. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74,"featured_media":44001,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,7,11],"tags":[58,61,341,352],"class_list":["post-43999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-diet-nutrition","category-health","category-health-hacks","tag-hacks","tag-infographic","tag-tax1living-well","tag-tax2weight-loss"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyburn.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyburn.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyburn.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyburn.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/74"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyburn.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyburn.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43999\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyburn.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyburn.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyburn.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyburn.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}