first off, as the calorie counting goes, I was a weight lifting instructor and studied nutrition when i first entered college, I started out at 130lbs, 5'9" tall (runner), I put myself on a "diet" (note: a diet is a style of eating, not necisarily eating less than usual, in my case it was eating more than usual) I gained 30lbs in 9 months, thanks to hitting the gym every other day, and eating 6 big meals a day.
heres me at 130lbs (shooting tequilla in Mexico for the first time)
heres me at 160lbs warming up after a polar plunge 2 years ago at the Cape
after college i ran out of time to work out, since i was pulling over 60hrs a week while still taking night classes towards my BS so i have dwindled in size back to about 145lbs (still lean though), but now I feel like its time to get back into it
So Impy chick, if you want some help trying to lose the pounds let me know via PM, I can give you a hand, and help you design a "diet" thats right for you, and allows you to eat all the stuff you like
as for caloric data relating to your poppers; it depends on how much cheese you stuff in them, so if you use a quart of low fat cream cheese to make your poppers, you can pretty much ignore the pepper, and just figure out the calories by volume of cream cheese, since the capacity of each pepper is different you will have to guestimate exactly how much you consume based on number of peppers & realtive size of peppers
here are some basics; 1 pound = approximately 3500calories, men should never eat less than 1500 calories a day, women should never eat less than 1200 calories a day or else your body goes into starvation mode; you become sluggish, irritable, mentally dull, and your metabolism slows down as your body attempts to store every available calorie as fat; its a final defense mechanism built into your body to preserve it