Monday, February 1, 2010

Weight Loss is Hard...

So, losing weight is hard work, I have always know this. I just read this article on Shine about why losing weight is so much harder than gaining weight. It points out some very interesting factors about weight loss and weight gain. The most interesting part to me (and scary) was this little table:




4.5 hours of walking to burn off 3 margaritas!!! It seems so unfair to me that it takes so much more work to take this weight off as it so easily comes on. Guess I will have to stick with the treadmill!

2 comments:

Gen said...

Those are some hard truths to swallow! Margaritas are deadly in terms of sugar and calories - I was devastated when I found out how bad!

Brooke said...

Ugh, I know, I feel the same way. And I really say this without being "obvious" or silly, but why does the good stuff have more calories? Life would be so much simpler if a grape and a bite of cheese the same size as a grap were both 5 calories!!!