Everyday I have had no breakfast and a 210 Calories salad with 180 calories of dressing. That's 390 calories.
So the big question is, how many calories do I eat at dinner time? Assume that I'm using 1500 Calories per day for normal body operations, then an average of 1386 Calories of exercise on top of that, then I should be burning 2886.5 calories per day.
So if I am not losing any weight, then how much must I be eating for dinner?
2886.5 - 390 = 2500
I think I'm probably eating closer to 1200 calories at dinner time. So I should be losing about 1300 Calories worth of fat every day, or 1300/3500 = .37 lbs of fat every day, or 2.5 lbs per week.
But I'm not so what is going on?
I probably am not buring 1500 Calories per day for operating expenses.
I probably am eating more than 1200 Calories at dinner time.
Even still, I don't know how much you can modify these numbers to make the zero-weight loss make sense.
OK, so I just went to the following website to calculate my resting metabolism rate:
ha ha ha, guess what it says my daily Calorie use would be if I stayed in bed all day?
2008 Calories per day!
Ok, so there are two completely different sites which list my BMR as 2000 Calories a day.
So even if I did NOTHING, then I could eat 400 for lunch and 1600 calories for dinner to keep the same weight.
The 118 Calories per mile of walking seems like a very stingy estimate. Walking 30 miles to burn a pound of fat is daunting. So I don't think that is wrong either. And the math for how much I'm exercising is based on a speed of 3mph * #hours walking, and that isn't going to be off by much either.
So a McDonald's Quarter Pounder is 535 calories. So if I'm eating 1600 calories per dinner, that would be like eating 3 Quarter Pounders. So let's go with that. I am eating 1600 calories for dinner. I am eating 400 Calories for lunch. And I'm exerciseing 1300 calories per day. And my BMR is very low, let's cut it in half, or 1000 Calories per day.
Input 2000 Cal/Day
Output 1000 + 1300 (BMR + Exercise) = 2300
So if my BMR is 1/2 what is should be, and I pig out every day at dinner time. I should still be losing a pound of fat every 11.6 days.
Is there any question that I have this virus?
ok, well I think the best thing to do is stick to the plan. The numbers say this simply must work. There is a lower limit to the BMR no matter how much the body tries to conserve. I can't see myself eating less lunch or dinner, because I simply will not be able to stick to it. So, for another week I will stay the course, and hope for the best.
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