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 shed those ten pounds. Just DO NOT eat those extra 100 calories a day.
100 calories is easy to find, we’ll go over that later. Here’s why it works:
By skipping 100 calories per day, you are consuming 36,500 fewer calories per year.
(100 calories a day x 365 days a year = 36,500 calories). It takes a decrease of 3,500 calories to lose one pound of fat. A 35,000 decrease adds up to 10 pounds of fat … 10 pounds of excess fat off your body!
According to the American Heart Association, in 2005, there were 140 million people who were overweight or obese in the United States. 72 million of them were men, 68 million women. Being overweight is defined as a BMI of more than 25. Obesity is a BMI of 30+. Overweight and obesity – Statistics.
Just think how well you can do if you add exercise as well. If you burn 100 calories a day through exercise and skip another 100 from food, it will equal 200 calories a day. That, in turn, will equal 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 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 of a Klondike ice cream bar
3. 1/3 of a good mood ice cream sandwich
4. 1 tablespoon mayonnaise
5.2 McDonalds Chicken McNuggets
6.15 fries
7. 6 fries
8. 15 fries
9. 2 tablespoons sugar
10. 1/3 order of Arby’s little curly fries
11. 1 tablespoon butter
12. 1 pretzel stick
13. ½ order McDonalds French fries (small)
14. 1 can of iced tea (12 ounces)
15. 1 slice of white bread
16. ½ glass of chocolate milk
17. 1 normal beer
18. 2 Oreo cookies
19. 1 drink of most liquors
20. ½ glass of wine
21. Reese’s 8 Piece BITE Size
22. 2 Kit Kat sticks
23. ½ Milky Way Midnite
24. 2 ½ Mini Milky Way
25. ½ Dunkin Donuts Chocolate Ice Cream Donut
26.5 marshmallows
27. ½ brownie (most brands)
28. 2 ½ Burger King chicken fillets
29. 1 ounce Burger King Honey Mustard Sauce
30. ½ order Burger King French 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 large ravioli (most brands)
36. 5 ravioli, mini (most brands)
37. 1/3 slice of cake (most brands)
38. 1/3 piece of 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 of a cinnamon bun
45. 2 Mini TWIX
46. ½ bag of M & M’s
47. 2 tablespoons caramel syrup
48. 2 tablespoons chocolate syrup
49. 2 chips Ahoy! Chocolate chip cookies
50. 2 Oreo cookies
51.20 croutons (most brands)
52. 2 tablespoons cream cheese (most brands)
53. 1/5 Dairy Queen Choc. Chip Cookie Dough Blizzard (Small)
54. 2 tablespoons cake frosting (most brands)
55.1 ice cream cone (empty)
56. 1 KFC stick (normal)
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 tablespoons of pecan ice cream topping
63. ½ of a bun or hamburger bun
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 popcorn (popped)
72.1 cup buttered popcorn (popped)
73. 1 bite of a Burger King hamburger (assuming you take 7 bites to finish it)
74. ¼ McDonalds sausage cookie
75. 1/6 of a McDonalds Big Mac
76. ¼ Burger King’s Croissan’wich, sausage and cheese
77. 1 ounce cookie dough
78. ½ slice of pizza
79. 6 Ritz cookies
80. 5 kisses from Hershey
81. ¼ Wendy’s Frosty (medium)
82. ½ Chile Wendy’s (small)
83. ¼ Arby’s Breakfast Cookie with Sausage
84. ¼ Arby’s Beef and Cheddar sandwich
85. 10 junior mints
86. 2 Mint Empanadas from the Andes
87. 1 TWIX stick
88. 1/3 of muffin (medium)
89. 1/3 of a Danish
90.4 tablespoons of sauce (for French fries)
91. ½ popsicle (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 dog (most brands, no bread)