My Diet

Calorie Counting With a Twist. The only real diet out there is counting calories, making sure you are taking in less thn what your body needs to function so your fat is used as energy instead. But I hate counting calories so here is what I do. I basically eat the exact same thing every day totaling about 1200-1300 calories. That means I don’t need to actually count the calories I’m eating unless I change something for one meal. For instance, I may skip my snack on my day off so i can have dessert after dinner. I simply swap the calories for something comparable. It’s a no brainer! And I never feel hungry.

I do have a few aces in the hole. I live by Vitamin Water Zero. It’s zero calories and delicious and my wife found it for 50 cents a bottle. I also started using OxyElite. It’s basically a caffeine pill but it has jump started my weight loss and made it consistent.  For dinner I eat an entire bag of Trail’s End Butter popcorn (from the Boy Scouts).  It is only 260 calories for the entire bag.  It’s really filling and it feels like I’m munching on a snack, which I am.  I have also discovered Veggie Straws which are 130 calories for 38 straws and they are excellent, like a bag chips!  I use those in place of dinner if I had something bigger for my snack.  And, of course, I throw in one cheat day a month for sanity!

So here is the full diet breakdown:

Breakfast – 375 total calories
Half of a whole wheat bagel – 135 cal
Peanut Butter (1tbsp) – 100 cal
Banana (small) – 60 cal
Skim Milk (1 cup) – 80 cal

Lunch – 424 total calories
Skinless Chicken Leg Quarter (about 3.5 ounces) – 138 cal
Canned vegetable – 120 cal
Sourdough Square (1 slice, toasted) – 130 cal
Pat of butter – 36 cal

Snack – 140 total calories
Starbucks Doubleshot Espresso – 140 cal

Dinner – 260 total calories
Bag of Popcorn – 260 cal

Day Total – 1206 calories (give or take, based on actual serving sizes)