New Weight Loss Plan

If you are still trying to work off those winter pounds you put on to keep yourself warm, then I have a workout plan for you. I've modeled it off of my daily routine here.

First, when you get up. Don't eat anything. Or if you must, have a piece of bread with some butter on it. When you get hungry again around lunch time, have more bread and butter. This time though, since it's lunch, treat yourself to some pretzels. You may feel the need to snack during the day. Don't. The easiest way to achieve this is to not have any other food in your house besides bread, butter, and pretzels. When dinner time comes around, go out to your favorite restaurant. But wait there's a catch, you have to walk there. How bad do you really want to go to that Italian place downtown?

You could make your own dinner - it might even be cheaper. But don't think you'll get out of walking anywhere. The closest grocery store is 3/4ths of a mile away, meaning you need to walk 1.5 miles - half of it uphill - to get food. Oh, and the uphill part is when you are carrying the groceries back. Unfortunately, the selection at this grocery store is quite lacking, and chicken is the only meat they carry. (They do have a wonderful selection of cakes, but this is a diet plan.)

There is another option. There is another grocery store in town...and it's only an extra half mile from the grocery store you are already at. It's only a 30 minute walk, and the exercise is good for you. Once you've walked 1.25 miles to get to the store you can pick out anything you want from a much wider selection of food - this store is easily twice the size as the other one. Don't buy too much though since anything you buy is going to need to get carried back - another 1.25 miles, half of it is up hill. This adds an interesting dilemma to the situation. You can buy everything you need at one place and suffer through carrying too much stuff back home, or you can make two trips. Two trips will result in twice as much walking though.


This is clearly the best option for losing weight. Not only will you have worked up a voracious appetite by the time dinner rolls around, but you'll have burned enough calories to eat as much as you can.

Pros: Fitting into that new bikini; impressing all of your friends with your svelte figure
Cons: Stomach pains; Lack of energy

Don't forget! Spring break is just around the corner.