Skip 100 Calories Today, Lose 10 Lbs. This Year

Skip 100 Calories Today, Lose 10 Lbs. This Year

You can drop ten pounds this year without lifting a weight, without starting a diet, and without lacing up your running shoes. In fact, it’s what you DON’T do that will get rid of those ten lbs. Simply DON’T eat those extra 100 calories a day.

100 calories are easy to find – we’ll go over that later. Here’s is why it works: By leaving out 100 calories per day, you are eating 36,500 less 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 up to 10 pounds of fat…10 pounds of excess fat off of your body!

According to the American Heart Association, as of 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 of how well you can do if you add in exercise, too. 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 gone from your body this year! Burning 100 calories with exercise is easy: (at a casual pace, for a150lbs. person) Ride a bike for 10 minutes, jog for 12 minutes, play tennis for 15 minutes, walk for 30 minutes. Start today!

100 extra calories that you can go without:

1. 1 can of soda (12 ounces)

2. ½ of a Klondike Ice Cream Bar

3. 1/3 of a Good Humor Ice Cream Sandwich

4. 1 tablespoon of mayonnaise

5. 2 McDonalds Chicken McNuggets

6. 15 potato chips

7. 6 potato French fries

8. 15 French fries

9. 2 tablespoons of sugar

10. 1/3 order of a small Arby’s Curly Fries

11. 1 tablespoon of butter

12. 1 pretzel rod

13. ½ order of 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 regular beer

18. 2 Oreos

19. 1 shot of most liquors

20. ½ glass of wine

21. 8 Reese’s Pieces BITE size

22. 2 Kit Kat sticks

23. ½ Milky Way Midnite

24. 2 ½ Milky Way Mini’s

25. ½ Dunkin Donuts Chocolate Frosted Donut

26. 5 marshmallows

27. ½ a brownie (most brands)

28. 2 ½ Burger King Chicken Tenders

29. 1 ounce Burger King Honey Mustard Dipping Sauce

30. ½ order of Burger King French Fries (small)

31. 2 tablespoons pancake syrup

32. ½ cup of sherbet (most brands)

33. ½ cup sorbet (most brands)

34. 1 tablespoon peanut butter (most brands)

35. 2 raviolis, large (most brands)

36. 5 raviolis, mini (most brands)

37. 1/3 slice of pie (most brands)

38. 1/3 piece of cake (most brands)

39. 1 ounce of 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 tablespoon hollandaise sauce

44. 1/3 cinnamon bun

45. 2 TWIX Mini’s

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 Oreos

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 drumstick (regular)

57. 2 tablespoons pesto sauce (most brands)

58. 1/3 piece French bread frozen pizza (most brands)

59. 1 pudding (small)

60. 2 tablespoons Caesar salad dressing (most brands)

61. 4 tablespoons BBQ sauce

62. 2 tablespoons walnut ice cream topping

63. ½ of a hamburger bun or roll

64. 1/3 cup of 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 of buttered popcorn (popped)

73. 1 bite of a Burger King whopper (assuming you take 7 bites to finish it)

74. ¼ of a McDonalds sausage biscuit

75. 1/6 of a McDonalds Big Mac

76. ¼ of a Burger King Croissan’wich, sausage and cheese

77. 1 ounce of 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 of an Arby’s Breakfast Biscuit with sausage

84. ¼ of an Arby’s Beef and Cheddar sandwich

85. 10 Junior Mints

86. 2 Andes Mint Patties

87. 1 TWIX stick

88. 1/3 of a muffin (medium)

89. 1/3 of a Danish

90. 4 tablespoons of dip (for chips)

91. ½ of frozen ice pop (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 of tarter sauce (most brands)

98. ¼ cup Alfredo sauce

99. 1 Kellogg’s Pop-Tart

100.1 hot dog (most brands, no bun)

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