Today was the first day of the diet plan and I will outline each meal below along with what exercise I performed (if any).

My weight at 6:30 AM (I will weigh at the same time every morning to be consistent since your weight will vary each day): 286 pounds.

Weight Lost so Far: 0 pounds.  Hey, we have to start somewhere!

Breakfast:

Nutrigrain Cereal bar strawberry x2: 240 calories
Diet Dr Pepper: 0 calories

Lunch:

Pepperoni Pizza lean pocket: 280 calories
Dannon Yogurt Light & Fit 6oz size x2: 160 calories

Dinner:

Wendy’s Medium Natural Cut Fries: 420 Calories
20 oz Hi-Ci Fruit Punch Drink: 210 calories
1/2 pound Double Dave’s hot ‘n Juicy Hamburger: 750 calories

Snacks:

TGIF Potato skin chips: 150 calories

Exercise:

Stationary bike 55 minutes: 654 calories

TOTAL NET CALORIES LOGGED TODAY: 1566

As you can see I had to exercise a fair amount today to fix my over-eating but it was worth it.  I enjoyed eating the new Wendy’s hamburgers (they re-designed them a couple of weeks ago).  I’m also a sucker for fatty foods such as french fries.  I am actually underlogging the biking here due to MyFitnessPal way over-estimating calories burned from stationary biking.  I actually biked closer to 90 minutes in 2 separate 45-minute sessions while watching TV shows on my DVR or Netflix instant streaming.  I log the stationary bike as “light effort” and log it so the value is somewhere between what the exercise bike tells me i’m burning and what MyFitnessPal thinks I should burn.  A recent medical study actually proved that you get “bonus” free calories after exercising for up to 14 hours afterwards so I feel this accounts for that some.  For example, in the study they showed that men riding an exercise bike burned extra calories for 14 hours afterward even while sleeping compared to the day before when they did not do the exercise (all other factors were identical and this was in a sealed room that measured oxygen usage to measure calories burned extremely accurately).  So if you run and burn 500 calories, you can expect to actually get a total impact of over 700 calories within one day of the exercise!  That’s crazy awesome and just another neat thing about our bodies that helps us to lose weight.