You can lose ten pounds this year without lifting a weight, going on a diet, and lacing up your running shoes. In fact, it’s what you DON’T do that will get rid of those ten pounds. Just DON’T eat those extra 100 calories a day.
100 calories is easy to find; we will see later. Here’s why it works:
By giving up 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) Ride a bike for 10 minutes, jog for 12 minutes, play tennis for 15 minutes, walk for 30 minutes. Get started today!
100 extra calories you can do without:
1. 1 can of soda (12 ounces)
2. ½ Klondike ice cream bar
3. 1/3 of Good Mood Ice Cream Sandwich
4. 1 tablespoon of mayonnaise
5. 2 McDonalds Chicken McNuggets
6. 15 fries
7. 6 fries
8. 15 fries
9. 2 tablespoons of sugar
10. 1/3 of the order of a small Arby’s Curly Fries
11. 1 tablespoon of butter
12. 1 pretzel stick
13. ½ order of McDonalds fries (small)
14. 1 can of 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 shot of most spirits
20. ½ glass of wine
21. 8 Piece Reese’s BITE Size
22. 2 Kit Kat sticks
23. ½ Midnight of the Milky Way
24. 2 ½ Milky Way minis
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 sherbet (most brands)
33. ½ cup sherbet (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 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 biscuit (most brands)
43. 2 tablespoons of 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. Dairy Queen 1/5 Clash. Chip Cookie Dough Blizzard (small)
54. 2 tablespoons cake icing (most brands)
55. 1 ice cream cone (empty)
56. 1 KFC thigh (regular)
57. 2 tablespoons pesto sauce (most brands)
58. 1/3 piece 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 pecan ice cream topping
63. ½ bun or hamburger roll
64. 1/3 cup half and half cream
65. 3 tablespoons 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 of 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 McDonalds 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 Kisses
81. ¼ Wendy’s Frosty (medium)
82. ½ Wendy’s chili (small)
83. ¼ of an Arby’s Sausage Breakfast Biscuit
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 Danish
90. 4 tablespoons of dip (for fries)
91. ½ frozen ice cream (most brands)
92. 3 caramel candies
93. ½ cup chocolate covered raisins
94. 1 ½ ounce 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 hotdogs (most brands, no buns)