Wednesday, February 13, 2008

Spoiler Alert!

If you love your high calorie foods, you may not want to read this post!

An average healthy person should eat about 2000 calories per day. If you are trying to lose weight, you should eat between 1200-1600, depending on your program.

The following popular snacks and foods are higher in calories than you may even realize:
  • 1 Reeses Peanut butter cup (big size) - 210
  • Corn muffin - 510
  • Medium mocha almand iced latte - 290
  • McDonald's deluxe breakfast - 1220
  • Crispy Chicken club sandwich - 680
  • Large french fry - 570
  • Large chocolate shake - 1160
  • Chinese beef with broccoli - 1120
  • Lo Mein - 1820
  • Pizza hut meat lovers pizza (1 slice) - 530
  • Cheesecake (1 slice) - 1000
  • Whopper - 760
  • Large coke - 390
  • Chicken fajita burrito - 840
  • Tuna Melt - 919
  • Awesome blossom (1/4 of of full plate) - 740
  • Chicken caesar salad - 1010
  • Clam chowder (bowl) - 940
  • Fajita Quesadillas - 1900
  • Large Chocolate cookie dough Blizzard - 1340
  • Hot dog - 400
  • Chicken parm over pasta - 1200

Source: Dotti's Weight Loss Zone (www.dwlz.com)

When you think about how many calories you are supposed to eat in a day, and how much of a dent these items make, it just hardly seems worth it! :)

1 comment:

Alison... said...

Boy, you weren't kidding that you were dying to blog and you had a lot to say! I loved that you put the calorie thing in there, what an eye opener on some items. It's great to be concious of this stuff and I have added some food items to my brain to NOT have, thanks for the info!!!!!