easy plan

I just heard about a great new 'diet' technique thats not really a diet but more like a eating schedule. I've been doing this (or trying to) for the past few days and its really pretty easy. Basically each three major meal gets a calorie amount - 300, 400, 500 for breakfast, lunch and dinner. If you throw in three 200 calorie snacks throughout the day, you are only eating 1600 calories a day. I'm a strong believer that the way to lose weight is to have less calories in and more calories burned. So team this method up with everyday exercise and wa-la..results. Not that i follow it strickly and measure out each meal. But i am suprised at how much you can actually eat if you load up with 'healthy' choices versus fast food or potato chips.
Last night my mom had mentioned having ice cream after dinner which of course sounded like a fabulous idea. She buys the 'lite' kind so i thought i was being good by eating that kind. Then she brought out the chocolate shell stuff you put on top so of course we loaded our ice cream with it. Just out of curiousity i checked what the calories were in it... omg.. 210 for TWO tablespoons. I'm guessing i had about ten tablespoons which when i caculate with the ice cream.. was a disgusting after dinner choice. So whoops. Next time i will have to pay more attention to the labels.