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Simple Changes in Your Eating Habits
Can Yield Big Results
By Gage Livingston
What’s holding you back from losing
those extra pounds? I want to show you how making a few simple dietary
changes can create big results on the scale. Most of us have a few bad
habits such as alcohol, chocolate, cookies, ice cream, ect. These items
can add a tremendous amount of calories to your diet. The following
table will show you the amount of weight you would lose by eliminating
some of those temptations over a 1 year period.
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Food or Beverage and How
Often it is Consumed |
Calories |
Pounds Lost Per Year by
Eliminating Food or Beverage |
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1-12 oz. beer each day |
150 |
15 pounds |
|
1 Big Mac each week |
560 |
9 pounds |
|
1 20 oz. cola per day |
250 |
26 pounds |
|
1 T. of butter per day |
100 |
11 pounds |
|
1 Restaurant dinner per week |
1000 or more |
16 pounds |
|
3 Oreo cookies per day |
160 |
17 pounds |
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1 cup of vanilla ice cream
per day |
260 |
27 pounds |
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½ cup of peanuts per day |
340 |
35 pounds |
|
1 16 oz. Starbuck’s
Frappuccino - Caffe Vanilla per day |
345 |
36 pounds |
|
3 KFC fried chicken
drumsticks per week |
420 |
7 pounds |
|
1 20 oz. Gatorade per day |
125 |
13 pounds |
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1 pack of M&M’s per day |
240 |
25 pounds |
The above
table shows just a few of the examples that could be displayed.
Perhaps the table doesn’t show your temptations; nonetheless you can
certainly see how eliminating high calorie habits can create dramatic
results in fat loss. Further, I am not suggesting that you
necessarily completely eliminate these items from your diet.
Simply cutting back will still achieve results. For example, you
may want to cut you daily habits to weekly habits and your weekly habits
to monthly habits. I hope these strategies help you achieve your
weight loss goals!
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