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Al’s Weight Loss Plan – Week 14

What do cinnamon rolls have to do with weight loss? Well, not much…except this: you really don’t have to eat tree bark and rabbit food to lose weight fast. Simply count your calories and get sufficient exercise. Here’s how:

Keep track of your calories and exercise each day in a spreadsheet and find your “sweet spot” with the calories–that result in 1-2 pounds of weight loss per week. Mine is 1600-2000 average daily cals. Also, your exercise should average out to 45-90 minutes, or over 200 “exercise calories burned” per day–this was discussed in last week’s “How Pizza and Beer is Saving My Life: Al’s Weight Loss Plan – Week 13.”

Oh yeah, about those cinnamon rolls; I had an average of 300 calories per day of mocha coffee and cinnamon rolls this week…and still managed to lose 1.2 lbs. Pizza, beer, cinnamon rolls, mochas, whatever; my point is this: if you limit your food intake and commit to regular exercise, you will lose weight.

This week’s lesson learned: Of course, good food is better, but don’t worry too much about a pastry and flavored coffee. As long as you’re aware of, and put a limit on, your average daily calories, you can succeed in your weight loss plan.

Stay tuned next week to see if eating better food will result in more rapid weight loss. Happy dieting…

This week’s tasty numbers:

• Average calories: 2212/day
• Average exercise: 46 mins/day
• Average exercise cals burned: 209/day
• Last week’s weight: 262.8 lbs
• Today’s weight: 261.6
• Weekly weight loss: 1.2
• Weight loss 2010: 12.4
• Average weekly weight loss: 1.0
• Total weight loss: 27.6