Question concerning BMR

[Rajseth]

the right to his wrong

Ouch. That stings. Cmon @tdean - you gonna let him get away with that smack down?!?!

(Fight Club theme music in background)

[tdean]

Ok the Keto police let me out on parole for good behavior. I went 4 hours without mentioning calories. Oops.

With TJ’s attitude to calorie counting, he’ll never get full membership to my new foundation,

Caloric Restriction & Aging Prevention Inc.!

Members of C.R.A.P. get to count calories guilt-free. No Heretics allowed.

[Rajseth]

Ok.
1 lb 2000
4 300
Now dinner
1 lb Pork belly 2000
8oz rib-eye 800
Do I just count them or do i have to add them up too?

[crickette]

History Lesson

You and the rest of us who have ever worried about BMR and CICO do so because of physician Lulu Hunt Peters, she penned the first book and her only book–on calorie counting–in 1918, called Diet and Health with Key to the Calories, which was just a collection of articles from a newspaper column she wrote for the Central Press Association, her demographic being middle aged women. She took the very complicated science of calories and applied arbitrary numbers to food–no matter the quality–and people–no matter their size-- and pontificated that anyone wanting to lose weight should restrict their diet to 1200 calories–again, an arbitrary number not based on the science. Then, proposed incorporating this with will-power would result in lose weight, essentially the very first Weigh Watchers program, and so on and so on. The obesity rate has continued to rise exponentially even though it’s so easy to count calories in and calories out.

If you really want to know your RMR (resting metabolic rate) you will have to go to a clinic (I haven’t looked into the validity of these tests so this could be a bunch of arbitrary numbers too), otherwise we are just doing what Lulu did back in 1918 with the arbitrary numbers being spat out by various apps that we assume are based on science.

[gitanacv]

Thanks for the background information on BMR. I think the bottom line fire me will be to monitor my weight and in the end determine what was most accurate, based on weight lost and calorie input and output over a given period of time. It’s not crucial since the scales don’t lie but I will share what I find.

[tdean]

Do I just count them or do i have to add them up too?

No need to add them up, just count them. Now didn’t that feel great? Can you feel the weight just dropping off now that you know how many calories you just ate? .

Welcome to the dark side Rajseth.

[Baytowvin]