Monday, August 21st, 2006...2:39 pm
I love baked goods
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You don’t get as fat as I am without eating your fair share of delicious baked goods.
Cookies, cakes, donuts, creampuffs; I love ‘em all. Now that I am getting fit I can no longer have baked goods orgies (which are defined as baking a cake, cupcakes or something of the like, and eating all of it over the next few days). Now, from Lifehacker comes an idea for lighter cupcakes, which involve substituting diet soda for the oil. The resultant cupcakes have fewer calories than normal cupcakes, though I will grant you that cupcakes shouldn’t be my top priority as I try to lose some weight.
Be that as it may, I might have to give this a whirl at some point this week.
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August 21st, 2006 at 8:24 pm
Fruit also works - for example, use bananas instead of oil in banana muffins, or use applesauce in just about anything. It does change the consistency a little bit, I think the food ends up a little denser.
August 22nd, 2006 at 12:50 am
Applesauce and mashed bananas work wonderfully!
August 22nd, 2006 at 11:36 am
There are lots of low-fat/fat-free products out there to treat yourself with (my favorite being No Pudge Brownies), however you’ll find it more effective to fill yourself up with vegetables (raw or steamed, sometimes boiled), as many as you can stomach, throughout the day and during meals.
When my girlfriend started Weight Watchers with me, I thought I was going to explode because of all the vegetables that we were required to eat every day; couldn’t even think about munching on anything else for weeks.
August 23rd, 2006 at 4:23 am
Scott has already had No Pudge Brownies at my house, but Scott, I realized later that I hadn’t put the 1 egg that was required in them. The next batch I made were a little cakier as a result. I think they were good without the egg too though.
August 23rd, 2006 at 5:14 am
There’s lots of good low cal baked goodies out there on the market, and they probably have enough preservatives in them to make you live an couple extra years on top of that.
There’s no reason you can’t allow yourself some goodies in the course of a day, just remember, you have to work them off, for example, one low fat Little Debbie Oatmeal Cream Pie is 144 calories, most people eat 2, that’s 288 calories. Walking at a moderate pace uses about 5 calories per minute, or an hour to burn off those 2 cookies. So bear in mind, every calorie you go above and beyond your target intake (to lose weight, figure ~2600 for your weight, and decreasing as you lose weight) you need to get rid of it somehow.
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