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Useful information, thanks.  I found it useful despite being near  
ideal weight, for evaluating my level of activity and seeing what was  
"optimal" calorie wise.  I was stunned to learn that 1277 was the RMR  
for me.  That's unbelievably low until the amount of exercise was  
considered, and result is about what I eat a day.   Like a lot of  
people, I sit in front of the 'puter too much.  I used "shoveling  
snow" for shoveling poop-equivalence.

Where the analysis falls apart (for me) is that I have a metabolism  
that is now, anyway, like a 60 mph freight train, not like the bullet  
train of wiry teenagers but fast none-the-less--how does weight  
watchers factor that in?

Lynne

On Apr 10, 2006, at 12:07 PM, Gloria Adams wrote:

> Hi,
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> I was hesitant in writing this, as it involves a fair amount of  
> math. So, I only wrote this as a mental exercise for people to  
> understand the math. The equations here pertain to adult females only.
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> Always ask your doctor for specifics for you (especially if you are  
> “Special Needs” like a child, pregnant, high blood pressure,  
> diabetes, thyroid problems, cholesterol problems, you are an elite  
> athlete, etc). I hope Ridecamp’s formatting does not jumble this  
> up, or cut it off…
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> But I am writing this to let people know why some say its simply  
> “You have to put out more calories than you take in”.
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> It is the amount of calories you take in. This is the mathematical  
> proof. Not how much you exercise etc, that gets you to lose wgt.  
> There are not enough hours in the day to exercise enough to use  
> that alone (or even to use it as your major method) to lose wgt.
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> Ie: if you eat a 2 OZ Snickers candybar it is 273 calories. If you  
> weigh 150# & you walked 60 min at 2 mph you would only lose 189  
> calories http://www.healthstatus.com/cbc.html “a minute in your  
> mouth, a lifetime on your hips”, so my mom used to say. There are  
> not enough minutes in the day to exercise to lose 2-3 instances of  
> eating foods with those kinds of calories (above your maintenance  
> calories).

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