Article: Choose a user-friendly book that will help you to know the calorie counts of common foods, particularly when you go to restaurants. You can also find a great deal of calorie information online. These tools will help you to learn about healthy portion sizes and to manage your portion control. Purchase something that you can carry in your purse or pocket. People who record what they eat have more success with weight loss.
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Purchase a calorie-counting guide. Invest in a food scale, measuring cups and spoons. Buy a notebook to use as a food journal or download a smartphone app for tracking your food intake.
Article: Select a hotel-style multi-tiered rack and hang it on the wall next to the shower or tub for easy access. To fold bath towels in a visually pleasing way, master the tri-fold or deep fold methods. Then, slot these folded towels into your vertical rack, with the large bath towels on the bottom and the small washcloths on the top. If you have the space, a piece of antique furniture makes a quaint decoration and a convenient surface to arrange your towels on. Neatly pile your towels atop the chair or other piece of antique furniture, arranging them from largest to smallest. Select either a low cabinet that sits on the ground or a high cabinet that must be nailed to the wall. By opting for a cabinet with a glass front, you can store your spare towels while simultaneously using them as decorations. The cabinet will also protect the items inside from moisture and humidity. Stacks of crisp white towels can make your bathroom look cleaner and more refreshing, while stacks of colorful towels can introduce vibrancy and a pop of color into the space. If you prefer to keep your towels out of sight, arrange them inside a more decorative container such as a large, lidded wicker basket. Or, introduce a more functional piece into the room, like a window bench or vanity seat with built-in storage. This will serve double duty as both towel storage and extra seating. If your towels vary in size, place the largest towel on the bottom of the pile and work your way up with smaller and smaller towels to form a pyramid. Limit the stacks to three or four towels to keep the shelves from looking overloaded. With open shelves, you can easily tell when you are beginning to run low on fresh towels.
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Install a vertical towel rack on your wall for a space-saving solution. Set your folded towels on a vintage chair or table for a unique impression. Put up glass-front towel cabinets to display your folded towels. Hide your towels away in a decorative or practical container. Stack your towels neatly on open shelves for a classic look.
Article: While you can eyeball how much of the laces you want to cut off, it's usually best to try on your shoes to see how much excess lace there is on each side. Tie your shoes as you normally would for the most comfortable fit, and take note of how long the laces are so you can decide how much you want to remove. When you're trying to decide how much of the laces that you want to cut, think about how you prefer to tie your shoes. If you don't want to double knot the laces, tie them normally and see how much of the length you'll need to take off on each side. You'll need to know exactly where to cut the laces, so it helps to mark them at the right spot. Use a felt tip pen to draw lines on each end of the laces to indicate the excess that you want to remove. You can leave your shoes on when you mark the laces, but it's often easier to use a ruler to determine how many inches you want to remove from each end with the shoes on and then remove the laces to mark them. Shoelaces come in standard sizes, such as 30-, 40-, or 54-inches, so once you figure out how much excess there usually is on your shoes, you'll know where to mark laces of the same length in the future. They're usually fairly easy to cut, so any household scissors should do the trick. However, you'll want to make sure that it's a sharp pair to minimize fraying when you cut the laces. Follow the marks that you made to ensure that you cut at the right spot. Don't cut all of the excess off one end of the lace. You'll wind up with one finished end and one unfinished end, so they won't match when you relace your shoes. Instead of trimming the excess from each end of the lace and having to finish the ends, you can opt to take out the extra length from the center. You'll wind up with two pieces that each have an aglet at one end, so you only have to tie them together to create a single lace. Try on the shoes, use a ruler to see how much extra there is on each side, add the numbers together, and cut that amount for the middle of the lace. Tie the pieces of the lace together as tightly as possible, and secure it further by applying a small amount of instant glue to the knot and allowing it to dry. If there is any excess lace outside the knot, make sure to trim it away. You can also sew the two pieces together.
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Put your shoes on. Mark your laces. Cut the laces. Consider cutting length from middle of the lace.