Thursday, July 9, 2009

Day 17

Today is day 17 of the Best of my life and I have to admit I've been doing pretty well.....BUT....I also have to confess that for some reason right now all I want to do it raid the fridge! It's probably because I just finished putting together this website and the overwhelming knowledge that I've posted this for the world to see has me a little stressed. I mean .....I put my NUMBER out there. Who does that?!?!?!!
But rather than hit the fridge...I'm typing this entry. (I'll call that a win!) So far today (it's 5:08pm est) I have eaten 957 calories. My daily goal is 1636. And I still have to put in my hour. Ugg! I've been doing this for 2 weeks now and that part hasn't gotten much easier. A little but not a lot. My goal for this week is to lose 2.4lbs. That would put me at a 10 pound loss in 3 weeks. I'm nervous about meeting this goal because my sister and I and our kids are going to be in Myrtle Beach visiting our parents for a week. We leave on Sunday. Mom's cooking. Beach food. Vacation Brain. You get the picture. CHALLENGE!!!!

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THE WEIGHT LOSS PLAN

Here is the plan if you would like to follow along:
1. figure out how many calories a day you should be consuming
in order to lose weight. (7 calories x your current weight)
This is the net amount per day you should be eating.
Net amount = calories eaten minus calories burned
through excercise.

Example: 2200 calories eaten minus 450 calories burned on
treadmill= 1750 net calories.

2. Try to eliminate or drastically reduce the "white foods" you
eat. White bread, rice, pasta, flour, sugar or anything made
with these ingrediants.

3. Work out 1 hour a day, 7 days a week. No excuses.
(This does NOT have to be done all at one time.)

4. Keep Track of your calorie intake and your exercise and
weigh in only once a week.

That's it. It's just that simple and just that hard all at the same time!! Good luck to us all.

Also- if you would like a template of the Excel spreadsheet calorie and food log that I use, Just send me an email at WeighLessLiveMore@yahoo.com and I will be happy to send that to you.

Coupon Kitchen

A Tasty treat made with this weeks coupon finds:

This week I had a dollar off of Duncan Hines Cake Mix. Last week I had a dollar off of Cool Whip. I bought both.

The cake was on sales for 1.66, so I paid .66
The Cool Whip was on sale for 1.25, so I paid .25

I purchased the Duncan Hines Spice cake mix (It had fewer calories) and instead of making a cake, I made cupcakes. The box said it made 12 servings (based on the cake) at 270 calories per serving, so I did the math. 270 x the 12 servings per box = 3240 for the whole cake. I made 24 cupcakes. 3240 /24= 135 calories per cupcake.

When we're ready to have one I "ice" the top with the cool whip for a cool 10 extra calories. I get a great tasting cupcake treat for only 145 calories! I think kids would love these and not really miss the heavier icing version. :O)