Skip 100 Calories Today, Lose 10 Pounds This Year
You can lose ten pounds this year without lifting a weight, without going on a diet, and without tying your running shoes. In fact, it’s what you DON’T do that will get rid of those ten pounds. Just DO NOT eat those extra 100 calories a day.
100 calories are easy to find; we will see it later. Here’s why it works:
By cutting out 100 calories a day, you’re eating 36,500 fewer calories a year.
(100 calories a day x 365 days in a year = 36,500 calories). It takes a decrease of 3,500 calories to lose one pound of fat. A decrease of 35,000 adds 10 pounds of fat… 10 pounds of excess fat off your body!
According to the American Heart Association, in 2005 there were 140 million overweight or obese people in the United States. 72 million of them were men, 68 million women. Overweight is defined as a BMI of 25+. Obesity is a BMI of 30+. Overweight and Obesity — Statistics.
Just think how well you can do if you also add exercise. If you burn 100 calories a day through exercise and skip another 100 from food, that’s 200 calories a day. That, in turn, will equate to twenty pounds of fat removed from your body this year! Burning 100 calories with exercise is easy: (at a casual pace, for a 150 pound person) Bike 10 minutes, jog 12 minutes, play tennis 15 minutes, walk 30 minutes. Get started today!
100 extra calories you can do without:
1. 1 can of soda (12 ounces)
2. ½ bar Klondike ice cream
3. 1/3 Good Mood Ice Cream Sandwich
4. 1 tablespoon of mayonnaise
5. 2 McDonald’s Chicken McNuggets
6. 15 French fries
7. 6 fries
8. 15 fries
9. 2 tablespoons of sugar
10. 1/3 order of a small Arby’s Curly Fries
11. 1 tablespoon butter
12. 1 pretzel rod
13. ½ order of McDonalds fries (small)
14. 1 can iced tea (12 ounces)
15. 1 slice of white bread
16. ½ glass of chocolate milk
17. 1 regular beer
18.2 Oreos
19. 1 drink of most liquors
20. ½ glass of wine
21. 8 Reese’s Pieces Size BITE
22. 2 Kit Kat sticks
23. ½ Midnight of the Milky Way
24. 2 ½ minis of the Milky Way
25. ½ Dunkin Donuts Chocolate Frosted Donut
26. 5 marshmallows
27. ½ brownie (most brands)
28. 2 ½ Burger King Chicken Strips
29. 1 ounce Burger King Honey Mustard Dipping Sauce
30. ½ order of Burger King fries (small)
31. 2 tablespoons pancake syrup
32. ½ cup straw (most brands)
33. ½ cup straw (most brands)
34. 1 tablespoon peanut butter (most brands)
35. 2 ravioli, large (most brands)
36. 5 ravioli, mini (most brands)
37. 1/3 slice of cake (most brands)
38. 1/3 cake (most brands)
39. 1 ounce pasta (most brands)
40. 2 ‘pigs in a blanket’ (most brands)
41. 2 slices of bacon (most brands)
42. ½ buttermilk cookie (most brands)
43. 2 tablespoons hollandaise sauce
44. 1/3 cinnamon bun
45. 2 mini TWIX
46. ½ bag of M&M’s
47. 2 tablespoons caramel syrup
48. 2 tablespoons of chocolate syrup
49. 2 chips in sight! Chocolate chip cookies
50.2 Oreos
51. 20 croutons (most brands)
52. 2 tablespoons cream cheese (most brands)
53. Clash of 1/5 Dairy Queen. Chip Cookie Dough Blizzard (small)
54. 2 tablespoons cake frosting (most brands)
55. 1 ice cream cone (empty)
56. 1 KFC thigh (regular)
57. 2 tablespoons pesto sauce (most brands)
58. 1/3 piece of frozen French bread pizza (most brands)
59. 1 pudding (small)
60. 2 tablespoons Caesar salad dressing (most brands)
61. 4 tablespoons BBQ sauce
62. 2 scoops of pecan ice cream topping
63. ½ bun or hamburger roll
64. 1/3 cup half and half cream
65. 3 tablespoons of sour cream
66. 3 tablespoons sweet and sour sauce
67. ½ cup frozen yogurt
68. 1 waffle
69. ½ of a White Castle Bacon Cheeseburger
70. 3 White Castle Chicken Rings
71. 3 cups popcorn (popped)
72. 1 cup buttered popcorn (popped)
73. 1 bite of a Burger King whopper (assuming you take 7 bites to finish it)
74. McDonalds ¼ sausage biscuit
75. 1/6 of a McDonald’s Big Mac
76. ¼ Burger King Croissant, sausage and cheese
77. 1 ounce cookie dough
78. ½ of a slice of pizza
79. 6 Ritz crackers
80. 5 Hershey’s Kisses
81. ¼ Wendy’s Frosty (medium)
82. ½ Wendy’s chili (small)
83. ¼ Arby’s Breakfast Biscuit with Sausage
84. ¼ of an Arby’s Beef and Cheddar sandwich
85. 10 Junior Mints
86. 2 Andean mint empanadas
87. 1 TWIX bar
88. 1/3 muffin (medium)
89. 1/3 of a dane
90. 4 tablespoons of dip (for French fries)
91. ½ frozen ice cream (most brands)
92. 3 caramel candies
93. ½ cup chocolate covered raisins
94. 1 ½ ounces of steak
95. ¼ cup cranberry sauce
96. Pepperoni (enough for 2 slices of pizza)
97. 2 tablespoons tartar sauce (most brands)
98. ¼ cup Alfredo sauce
99. 1 Kellogg’s Pop-Tart
100.1 hot dogs (most brands, no buns)