Day 17 - Read the Label

Hubby and I continue with our dieting, I lost a few poundslast week, and hubby lost none so I am feeling a bit better now about him losing twice as much as I did on the first week.
We continue with our self directed program, which is simply eating more veggies, staying away from sugars, and exercising more. We didn't join anything, we are not eating special foods, and we do not have our meals delivered to us. Just eating the way we knew we should.
No Weight Watchers, no Jenny Craig, and no buying pre-made anything with the word Lite, diet or low fat. We have become avid readers of labels on all food products, and what we have noticed is the sneaky way companies promote calorie counts. In very large text they extol the fact that this product only has 140 calories, sounds great right? But when you look closer,the can/package actually is 2 servings, and it's really 280 calories, my favorite is a rice dish that my husband and I used to share every week, and at a glance it said it was only 180 calories a serving, and get this, the box that we were sharing, suggested serving size was for 6,(which comes to less that one half cup of cooked rice) so the reality was that we were actually over 400 calories!
So my advice to anyone trying to shed a few pounds, read the labels, paying special attention the serving size!

January 17, 2012:  I am happy that I am a few pounds lighter than last week!