A Math Blog.

I don't think I'm going to be purchasing the no-calorie sweeteners for this. Yes, they do the job without the calories, but at the price of throwing my food budget out the window? I can buy a lb of sugar for $1.38, but I can only buy 10oz of the generic artificial sweetener for $5.99.
Before I get into my little rant here, let me explain that I'm an ex-Biomedical Engineering major (plan on fixing the ex part), and my 2nd best subject behind science has always been mathematics. I love numbers, I love budgets, I LOVE figuring out random factoids with math.
So, after the division, that's 60 cents per oz for the sugar substitute, and 9 cents per oz for sugar. That is a total of 6.89 times more I'm going to spend on sugary substances by making the switch. I don't know about you, but I don't have the money to increase my sugar budget by almost 7 times its previous amount.
For another fun factiod I figured out, I learned how many of my favorite doughnuts (Krispy Kreme Chocolate Covered Kreme Filled) it would take to equal the amount of calories I need to burn to lose the 112 lbs it will take me to get to 135 lb goal. Each of these doughnuts is 340 calories. It is going to take me 392,000 calories to get to my goal weight (112lb x 3500 calories/lb). So by dividing the number of calories I need to lose by the caloric value of the doughnut, I get 1153 doughnuts when I round up to full doughnuts. That's a lot of fricking doughnuts! I remember I would go through a half dozen of these in at most 2 days when I would get them.
I'm not depriving myself of foods for this journey, so I'm going to eat my sugar, I might even have a doughnut, but I'll just control how many sugary things I intake. I read Tony fromOne Man's Trip to the Half's blog today and he has a family tradition of making a Monster McIntosh Pie (I actually don't know if it's McIntosh, I just like alliteration). I love that he's continuing this tradition, and commend him on not throwing away treasured things like that.
That's not saying that I'm not committed to this though. I don't ever want to return to the 250 almost mark once I get away from it. This time it's bigger than myself. I have D, and the prospects of having a family ahead of me. I have PCOS, so the further away I get from diabetes, heart disease and feeling yucky, the closer I get to having a family and looking great in my wedding dress.