Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/08/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Interesting. Bravo to you if you can keep your daily calorie intake under 1300! I haven't been good at checking weight, but my trouser waist has gone 30" in my 20s, 32" in my 30s, 34" in my 40s, 36" in my 50s and now 38" in my 60s. I have read that the "bad fat" for health is round your waist, so rather than check weight/height keeping the waist less than 36" is a good target. My mind is willing but the flesh is weak. Frank D >________________________________ > From: George Lottermoser <imagist3 at mac.com> >To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> >Sent: Wednesday, 28 August 2013, 19:51 >Subject: Re: [Leica] PESO: Hitch a ride > > >At my age and weight a 4 to 5 mile walk will burn 400 to 500 calories. >I just returned from a 50 minute moderate bike ride, just riding into town >for a couple errands, and burned 450 calories; thanks to the hills and wind. > >That means I could have a good sized piece of cheesecake (also 4-500 >calories) and maintain my current weight; or not - and continue on my slow >weight loss goals. > >In simple terms if I want to lose a pound or two per week I have to keep my >calorie intake under 1300 and burn between 400 and 600 calories per day - >walking, biking or at the gym. > >If I'm sitting in a chair and or a car all day - 1250 calories will >maintain my weight. Eating any more will slowly or quickly pack it on. > >I've tested these realities extensively over the past year and a half. They >hold quite true for me. > >In my twenties 6' 4" the calorie intake was a minimum of 3500 - 185 lbs. >In my thirties - 2700 - 3000 - 195 lbs >Forties - 2500 - 3000 and I was building a house while maintaining a design >firm with three employees - 200 - 210 lbs >Fifties 2000 - 2700 and beginning to gain unhealthy weight - 220 lbs >2012 - Sixty six - 240 lbs - heart attack >2013 - sixty seven - 218 and hoping to revisit 185 lbs in the next couple >years. > >a note off the iPad, George > >On Aug 28, 2013, at 12:10 PM, FRANK DERNIE <frank.dernie at btinternet.com> >wrote: > >> Yes, quite, but burning off 500 calories takes a fair bit of excercise, a >> 4 to 5 mile run depending on your weight, whilst it is only a small >> amount of (junk) food. >> >> If you have done the calculations you will have seen the facts. That is >> not to discount the fact that being fit is a very good thing but the best >> excercise to avoid getting fat is to push back from the table ;-) > >_______________________________________________ >Leica Users Group. >See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > >