![]() If your goal is weight loss, then it’s more than likely you are going to have to limit some things you currently enjoy, however going cold turkey is really, really tough, and potentially sets you up for failure. I’m just trying to point out a different way of looking at things. What if it is wine? Assuming a 250 ml glass of wine is roughly 200 calories.ġ glass per night over two weeks – 14 x 200 = 2800 calories.Ĥ glasses once a week over two weeks – 8 x 200 = 1600 calories.ĭoes this mean i’m giving you permission to go nuts once a week on all the crap you feel you are missing out on……? That’s 6 Tim Tams over two weeks – 6 x 95 = 570 Calories – That means despite overdoing your treat a little, you’ve ingested roughly HALF the amount of extra, empty calories over 14 days. Let’s change it up and say you have 3 Tim Tams in one sitting, BUT you only did it once per week. What if instead, you had 2-3 Tim Tams when you had the urge, just not every day? It also depends on you having ONLY ONE TIM TAM!?!! Yeah, I don’t know about you, but when that packet’s open, i’m having 2-3…… Depending on your Basal Metabolic Rate, that’s roughly 1.5 -3 hours of intense aerobic activity. Over two weeks, you eat 14 Tim Tams – 14 x 95 = 1330 Calories – That means despite eating your treat in moderation, you’ve ingested nearly a whole day’s extra, empty calories over that 2 week period. The My Fitness Pal app tells us that Tim Tam is 95 calories, i’m going to assume that’s correct for the purpose of this post, because if I have to look at a packet, i’m gonna buy those bad boys! Let’s say that you eat one (1) Tim Tam everyday with a cup of tea, it’s your one little treat for the day, and you deserve it (yeah you do). It’s all really just down to the numbers. We justify having one Tim Tam or 1-2 glasses of wine as being moderate, therefore ok for our healthy lifestyle. ![]() ![]() Very hard (read: impossible) to exercise off all those calories. It’s calories in vs calories out after all, and if you are scarfing booze or Tim Tams everyday, thats a lot of empty calories in. If you binge drink or eat the high sugar or fat stuff every day, you are going to put on weight. We’re always told that eating the bad stuff is ok “in moderation”, right? I agree, to a point. Ok, we love Tim Tams, right? If you said no, we probably can’t be friends, it’s not me, it’s you…. Just kidding, we can still be friends, but i’m going to use Tim Tams as an example in this post. ![]()
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