After I took a few seconds to stretch my stiff muscles, I went to my laptop and pulled up the weight loss website I'd signed up for the night before. At the top was a tab for weight loss goals and how much exercise/calories it would take to get there. I typed in my far-reaching goal and sat back in my chair, waiting. The plan it popped up with shocked me at first. It would take nearly two months to lose just ten pounds.Not acceptable. I needed to lose twenty-five in about the same time frame.Messing with the guided plans didn't result in the weight loss I wanted, so I went to custom. If I only ate nine hundred calories a day, I could lose almost three pounds a week. That would let me lose the twenty pounds in almost seven weeks, an acceptable time frame. Three three-hundred calorie meals a day wouldn't be bad. Why hadn't I tried this before?I shut the laptop, trying my best to ignore the note in red at the bottom: WARNING, A HEALTHY DIET CONSISTS OF AT LEAST TWELVE HUNDRED CALORIES A DAY.Eating only nine hundred calories would make me lose weight, which in turn would make me more healthy, right?
