Wheeler Weight Loss Challenge, Week One

Things went better for me than I anticipated, with the following delightful discoveries (mostly calorie-based):

• Rice Krispy Treats (a 9x13 cut into twelve servings) have but 153 calories each (possibly the best news all week!)


• One cup of lite popcorn has 20 calories


• 51 stick pretzels have 100 calories


• Zoom is a delicious lunch


• Otter Pops have only 15 calories per pop.


• It's entirely likely that our scale has broken.

My challenges were as follows:

• I had to read 19 research papers, many of which were horrible beyond my wildest dreams


• I still don't like carrots


• Cooking is a big, fat, ugly pain--especially at this time of the semester--but eating out isn't really an option as far as calories go (and they don't go that far)


• I want to make fat sugar cookies more than anything else in this world, but we all know that I would eat them all and then I'd have to fork over my ten bucks. No good.

That's all I can think of. If you have any great recipes, please share. Cooking hates me.