A Simple Diet and Exercise Plan

Breakfast:
4 pieces of bacon
2 scrambled eggs (cooked in bacon grease)
2 pieces of toast with peanut butter and jelly
1 cup of oatmeal with 1/4 cup brown sugar

Snack
cookies, brownies, snack cakes or whatever else is in my husbands goodie box

Lunch
2 hotdogs
a box of macaroni and cheese

Snack
a can of ravioli or a Totinos pizza

Supper
a Scooby-sized plate of spaghetti
2 pieces of garlic toast

Snack
4 waffles with peanut butter, jelly and syrup

Drinks
4 cups of coffee with 1 cup of sugar
2 liters of Sprite

Exercises I do daily
walk from the bed to the recliner
12 hours of typing, mouse clicking and remote control clicking
walk 100 feet to the mailbox
walk 200 feet to the dog condo (twice a day)

Exercises I do 3 times a week
haul 3 wheelbarrows full of wood to the house

Exercises I do once a week
shop at Walmart for 2 hours

I'm going to be using the great tools I found on Walmart.com to help me lose weight. They have this awesome Diet and Fitness Tracker. Not only is it free, but I can also get advice and tips on how to lose weight. The diet and fitness tracker helps me keep track of the calories I consume and the calories I burn. And since everything is already preprogrammed, I don't have to spend all my time figuring up how many calories are in an egg or how many calories I burned by shoveling snow.

After answering the simple questions in the Personal Diet Evaluator, I found out that in order to reach my goal of fitting into a size 8 in 3 months, I need to reduce my calorie intake to 1200 calories a day, and exercise enough to burn 389 calories a day. Here are a few things I'm going to change about the way I eat:

• No more soda! I drink about 800 calories a day from soda. So I'm going to switch over to water mixed with Hawaiian Punch. That will reduce my drinking calories down to 40 a day.


• No more Bacon! Those 4 slices of bacon every morning are going straight to my hips.


• No more sugar! I'm going to switch from using real sugar to using a sugar substitute.


• No more greasy foods! Goodbye Chef Boyardee. See you later Totinos. My snacks are now going to consist of fruits and vegetables.....and maybe a yogurt every once in a while. Those naturally sweet fruits will also help satisfy my sweet tooth.


• Smaller portions! I wasn't kidding when I said I eat a Scooby-sized plate of spaghetti. My plate is always filled to the brim. Sometimes I even have to have two plates to hold everything! From now on, if it doesn't fit on a small plate, I don't need it.


• Hello Weight Watchers! While I don't believe in eating nothing but frozen diet meals, I do believe that the makers of those diet meals know more than me. So my supper is now going to consist of a frozen diet meal. I actually don't mind this at all. Between Lean Cuisine and Weight Watchers, there's a huge variety of delicious meals to choose from.