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! :)
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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!!!!!
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