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 10 lbs. Simply DON’T eat 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 deficit of 3,500 calories to lose one pound of fat. A deficit of 35,000 adds up to 10 pounds of fat…10 pounds of excess fat off of your body!

According to the 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 - 29.9. Obesity is a BMI of 30+.

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 a150 lbs. person) Ride a bike for 10 minutes, jog for 12 minutes, play tennis for 15 minutes, walk for 30 minutes. Start today!

1. 1 can of soda (12 ounces)
2. ½ of a Klondike Ice Cream Bar
3. 1 tablespoon of mayonnaise
4. 2 McDonalds Chicken McNuggets
5. 1/3 of a Good Humor Ice Cream Sandwich
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. 1/2 order of McDonald's small French Fries
14. 1 can of Iced Tea (12 ounces)
15. 1 slice of white bread
16. 1/2 glass of chocolate milk
17. 1 beer (regular)
18. 2 Oreos
19. 1 shot of most liquors
20. 8 Bite Size Reese's Pieces
21. 2 Kit Kat sticks
22. 1/2 Milky Way Bar
23. 2 1/2 Milky Way Mini's
24. 1/2 Dunkin' Donuts Chocolate Frosted Donut
25. 5 marsh mellows
26. 1/2 a brownie (conservatively!)
27. 2 1/2 Burger King Chicken Tenders
28. 1 ounce Burger Honey Dip Mustard Sauce
29. 1/2 order Burger King Small Fries
30. 2 tablespoons of syrup
31. 1/2 cup sherbert
32. 1 tablespoon of peanut butter
33. 2 large raviolis
34. 5 mini raviolis
35. 1/3 slice of pie
36. 1/3 piece of cake
37. 1 ounce of pasta
38. 2 'pigs in a blanket' appetizers
39. 2 pieces of bacon
40. 1/2 of a buttermilk biscuit
41. 2 tablespoons of hallondaise sauce
42. 1/2 cinnamon bun
43. 2 TWIX Mini's
44. 1/2 bag of M&M's (standard size!)
45. 2 tablespoons of caramel syrup
46. 2 tablespoons of chocolate syrup
47. 2 Chips Ahoy! chocolate cookies
48. 20 croutons
49. 2 tablespoons of cream cheese
50. 1/5 of a small Dairy Queen Choc. Chip Cookie Dough Blizzard
51. 2 tablespoons of cake frosting
52. 1 ice cream cone (empty!)
53. 1 KFC drumstick
54. 2 tablespoons of pesto sauce
55. 1/3 piece of French bread frozen pizza
56. 1 small pudding
57. 2 tablespoons of Caesar salad dressing
58. 4 tablespoons of BBQ sauce
59. 2 tablespoons of walnut ice cream topping
60. 1/2 of a hot dog or hamburger bun
61. 1/3 cup of half and half cream
62. 3 tablespoons of sour cream
63. 3 tablespoons of sweet and sour sauce
64. 1/2 cup of frozen yogurt
65. 1 waffle
66. 1/2 of a White Castle Bacon Cheeseburger
67. 3 White Castle Chicken Rings
68. 3 cups of popcorn
69. 1 cup of buttered popcorn
70. 1 bite of a Burger King Whopper (7 bites to finish it)
71. 1/4 of a McDonald's Sausage Biscuit
72. 1/6 of a McDonald's Big Mac
73. 1 ounce of cookie dough
74. 1/2 slice of pizza
75. 6 Ritz Crackers
76. 5 Hershey's Kisses
77. 1/4 of a Wendy's Frosty
78. 1/2 of a small Wendy's Chili
79. 1/4 of an Arby's Breakfast Biscuit
80. 1/4 of an Arby's Beef and Cheddar
81. 10 Junior Mints
82. 2 Andes Candies
83. 1 TWIX Stick
84. 1/3 of a medium muffin
85. 1/3 of a Danish
86. 4 tablespoons of chip dip
87. 1/2 frozen ice pop
88. 3 caramel candies
89. 1/3 cup of chocolate covered raisins
90. 1 1/2 ounces of steak
91. 1/4 cup of cranberry sauce
92. Pepperoni (enough for 2 slices of pizza)
93. 2 tablespoons of tarter sauce
94. 1/4 cup of Alfredo sauce
95. 1 Kellogg's Pop Tart
96. 1 hot dog (minus the bun!)
97. 1 glass of wine
98. 1/2 of a sports bar(average brand)
99. 1/5 cup of diced cheddar cheese
100. 1 tablespoon of butter