How much calories per day?

On Wed, 1 Sep 2004 19:26:04 +0200, "JS" wrote:

Hi everybody

I have a question. I am 10kg overweight (not sure how much that is
inpounds). Approximately what is the minimum, and recommended amount of
calories that I should eat in a day? Let's say I don't do any excerice. A
normal day (without watching what I eat) gives me 3500 cals, so I realise I
have to do much less. How exactly how much without threatening my health?

Some of it depends, male or female, age, how tall you are.

It's very hard to lose weight if you don't exercise. Next to
impossible if you're female and don't exercise.

If you reduce calories, lose weight, and don't exercise, you will lose
a disproportionate amount of lean body mass. This will result in a
lower body weight with a high fat mass, and a lower metabolic rate
than you started out with.

Outcome is that you'll have a very hard time maintaining.

Assuming that you are now weight stable with 3500 k/cal, how about
reducing that to 3000 k/cal and walking 2 miles per day? It's only
going to take you 30 minutes to walk the two miles, and you'll be much
more likely to keep the weight off.

Just a thought.


Barbara Hirsch, Publisher
OBESITY MEDS AND RESEARCH NEWS
The latest in obesity research and weight loss drug development
http://www.obesity-news.com/

"Dally" wrote in message
...

Try splenda. It comes in a yellow packet and has zero calories

Sorta, and I use splenda, but here's some more info on it:

Thank you for visiting the SPLENDA (R) No Calorie Sweetener website. We hope
you became more familiar with SPLENDA (R) No Calorie Sweetener during your
visit to the site.

The caloric and carbohydrate content for SPLENDA (R) Brand Sweetener is as
follows:

SPLENDA (R) Granular
1 tsp = 0.5 gm carb = 2 calories
one half cup = 12 gm carb = 48 calories
1 cup = 24 gm carb = 96 calories

*1 tsp. = 1 serving

Packet of SPLENDA (R)
1 packet = .9 gm of carb = 4 calories

*1 packet has the sweetness of 2 tsp of sugar

Note: Per U.S. labeling laws, anything with less than 5 calories per
serving, is properly labeled as "zero" or no-calorie.

The caloric and carbohydrate content for sugar is as follows:

Sugar
1 tsp = 4 gm of carb= 16 calories
one half cup = 96 gm of carb= 385 calories
1 cup = 192 gm of carb = 770 calories

Note: The calories and carbohydrates in SPLENDA (R) No Calorie Sweetener
comes from dextrose and/or maltodextrin, which are added for bulk. Sucralose
the sweetening ingredient in SPLENDA (R) Brand Sweetener, has no calories
and is not a carbohydrate.

Granular - sucralose, maltodextrin (0.5 gram per serving)
Packets - sucralose, maltodextrin and dextrose (less than 1 gram per packet)

SPLENDA (R) No Calorie Sweetener (sucralose) has no known side effects.
Sucralose can be used by everyone; including people with diabetes, pregnant
and nursing mothers, and children. The safety of SPLENDA (R) Brand Sweetener
has been demonstrated as part of our clearance process with the FDA as well
as other regulatory agencies around the world. There are no warning labels
on the product to exclude anyone from enjoying SPLENDA (R) No Calorie
Sweetener.

"Dally" wrote in message
...

Try splenda. It comes in a yellow packet and has zero calories

Sorta, and I use splenda, but here's some more info on it:

Thank you for visiting the SPLENDA (R) No Calorie Sweetener website. We hope
you became more familiar with SPLENDA (R) No Calorie Sweetener during your
visit to the site.

The caloric and carbohydrate content for SPLENDA (R) Brand Sweetener is as
follows:

SPLENDA (R) Granular
1 tsp = 0.5 gm carb = 2 calories
one half cup = 12 gm carb = 48 calories
1 cup = 24 gm carb = 96 calories

*1 tsp. = 1 serving

Packet of SPLENDA (R)
1 packet = .9 gm of carb = 4 calories

*1 packet has the sweetness of 2 tsp of sugar

Note: Per U.S. labeling laws, anything with less than 5 calories per
serving, is properly labeled as "zero" or no-calorie.

The caloric and carbohydrate content for sugar is as follows:

Sugar
1 tsp = 4 gm of carb= 16 calories
one half cup = 96 gm of carb= 385 calories
1 cup = 192 gm of carb = 770 calories

Note: The calories and carbohydrates in SPLENDA (R) No Calorie Sweetener
comes from dextrose and/or maltodextrin, which are added for bulk. Sucralose
the sweetening ingredient in SPLENDA (R) Brand Sweetener, has no calories
and is not a carbohydrate.

Granular - sucralose, maltodextrin (0.5 gram per serving)
Packets - sucralose, maltodextrin and dextrose (less than 1 gram per packet)

SPLENDA (R) No Calorie Sweetener (sucralose) has no known side effects.
Sucralose can be used by everyone; including people with diabetes, pregnant
and nursing mothers, and children. The safety of SPLENDA (R) Brand Sweetener
has been demonstrated as part of our clearance process with the FDA as well
as other regulatory agencies around the world. There are no warning labels
on the product to exclude anyone from enjoying SPLENDA (R) No Calorie
Sweetener.

"Barbara Hirsch" wrote in message
...
On Wed, 1 Sep 2004 19:26:04 +0200, "JS" wrote:

Hi everybody

I have a question. I am 10kg overweight (not sure how much that is
inpounds). Approximately what is the minimum, and recommended amount of
calories that I should eat in a day? Let's say I don't do any excerice. A
normal day (without watching what I eat) gives me 3500 cals, so I realise
I
have to do much less. How exactly how much without threatening my health?

Some of it depends, male or female, age, how tall you are.

It's very hard to lose weight if you don't exercise. Next to
impossible if you're female and don't exercise.

If you reduce calories, lose weight, and don't exercise, you will lose
a disproportionate amount of lean body mass. This will result in a
lower body weight with a high fat mass, and a lower metabolic rate
than you started out with.

Outcome is that you'll have a very hard time maintaining.

Assuming that you are now weight stable with 3500 k/cal, how about
reducing that to 3000 k/cal and walking 2 miles per day? It's only
going to take you 30 minutes to walk the two miles, and you'll be much
more likely to keep the weight off.

Just a thought.


Barbara Hirsch, Publisher
OBESITY MEDS AND RESEARCH NEWS
The latest in obesity research and weight loss drug development
http://www.obesity-news.com/

Thanks for the advice. I will definately try out the walking. I jog/run once
in two weeks, and only for a short distance, but I love walking.
Unfortunately I do it not often enough. I hate running or walking around the
block, so I am going to walk to a specific place - a different target each
day.

"Barbara Hirsch" wrote in message
...
On Wed, 1 Sep 2004 19:26:04 +0200, "JS" wrote:

Hi everybody

I have a question. I am 10kg overweight (not sure how much that is
inpounds). Approximately what is the minimum, and recommended amount of
calories that I should eat in a day? Let's say I don't do any excerice. A
normal day (without watching what I eat) gives me 3500 cals, so I realise
I
have to do much less. How exactly how much without threatening my health?

Some of it depends, male or female, age, how tall you are.

It's very hard to lose weight if you don't exercise. Next to
impossible if you're female and don't exercise.

If you reduce calories, lose weight, and don't exercise, you will lose
a disproportionate amount of lean body mass. This will result in a
lower body weight with a high fat mass, and a lower metabolic rate
than you started out with.

Outcome is that you'll have a very hard time maintaining.

Assuming that you are now weight stable with 3500 k/cal, how about
reducing that to 3000 k/cal and walking 2 miles per day? It's only
going to take you 30 minutes to walk the two miles, and you'll be much
more likely to keep the weight off.

Just a thought.


Barbara Hirsch, Publisher
OBESITY MEDS AND RESEARCH NEWS
The latest in obesity research and weight loss drug development
http://www.obesity-news.com/

Thanks for the advice. I will definately try out the walking. I jog/run once
in two weeks, and only for a short distance, but I love walking.
Unfortunately I do it not often enough. I hate running or walking around the
block, so I am going to walk to a specific place - a different target each
day.

"JS" wrote in message ...
Hi everybody

I have a question. I am 10kg overweight (not sure how much that is
inpounds). Approximately what is the minimum, and recommended amount of
calories that I should eat in a day? Let's say I don't do any excerice. A
normal day (without watching what I eat) gives me 3500 cals, so I realise I
have to do much less. How exactly how much without threatening my health?

The first day's recommended meal plan in my book contains 6500
calories. I don't think you'll be able to eat it all but try as hard
as you can .

Calories have little to do with weight. The thinnest people on Earth
eat the most calories and exercise the least.

They do however limit themselves to what is edible in Nature and don't
eat foods only edible through technological intervention. Grains,
beans, potatoes and refined sugars are only edible to Primates through
the chemistry of cooking ( about 300 generations-25 years of white
mice). The milk of other species has only been available to humans
since Man domesticated cattle ( about 150 generations).

By keeping the diet variables to those constant to all Primates and
eliminating new variables the resulting fractal of normal human weight
distribution ( 10% bodyfat for men 20% for women)will always
manifest itself.

Aren't non-linear equations grand! As anyone who has tried calorie
reduction can tell you, simple thermodynamics ( calories in vs.
calories out)does not tell the whole story.

" Not only in research, but also in the everyday world of politics and
economics, we would all be better off if more people realized that
simple
nonlinear systems do not necessarily posses simple dynamical
properties."
[Biologist Robert Mays from his "messianic" paper in Nature
(1976)"The Mathematical Intuition"]

Ray Audette
Author "NeanderThin"
www.NeanderThin.com

"JS" wrote in message ...
Hi everybody

I have a question. I am 10kg overweight (not sure how much that is
inpounds). Approximately what is the minimum, and recommended amount of
calories that I should eat in a day? Let's say I don't do any excerice. A
normal day (without watching what I eat) gives me 3500 cals, so I realise I
have to do much less. How exactly how much without threatening my health?

The first day's recommended meal plan in my book contains 6500
calories. I don't think you'll be able to eat it all but try as hard
as you can .

Calories have little to do with weight. The thinnest people on Earth
eat the most calories and exercise the least.

They do however limit themselves to what is edible in Nature and don't
eat foods only edible through technological intervention. Grains,
beans, potatoes and refined sugars are only edible to Primates through
the chemistry of cooking ( about 300 generations-25 years of white
mice). The milk of other species has only been available to humans
since Man domesticated cattle ( about 150 generations).

By keeping the diet variables to those constant to all Primates and
eliminating new variables the resulting fractal of normal human weight
distribution ( 10% bodyfat for men 20% for women)will always
manifest itself.

Aren't non-linear equations grand! As anyone who has tried calorie
reduction can tell you, simple thermodynamics ( calories in vs.
calories out)does not tell the whole story.

" Not only in research, but also in the everyday world of politics and
economics, we would all be better off if more people realized that
simple
nonlinear systems do not necessarily posses simple dynamical
properties."
[Biologist Robert Mays from his "messianic" paper in Nature
(1976)"The Mathematical Intuition"]

Ray Audette
Author "NeanderThin"
www.NeanderThin.com

JS wrote:

Thanks for the advice. I will definately try out the walking. I
jog/run once in two weeks, and only for a short distance, but I love
walking. Unfortunately I do it not often enough. I hate running or
walking around the block, so I am going to walk to a specific place -
a different target each day.

Walking works! I lost almost 100 pounds in a year with walking as my
primary form of exercise. Do it!

--
Walking (but mostly biking!) on . . .
Laurie in Maine
207/110 60 inches of attitude!
Start: 2/02 Maintained since 2/03

JS wrote:

Thanks for the advice. I will definately try out the walking. I
jog/run once in two weeks, and only for a short distance, but I love
walking. Unfortunately I do it not often enough. I hate running or
walking around the block, so I am going to walk to a specific place -
a different target each day.

Walking works! I lost almost 100 pounds in a year with walking as my
primary form of exercise. Do it!

--
Walking (but mostly biking!) on . . .
Laurie in Maine
207/110 60 inches of attitude!
Start: 2/02 Maintained since 2/03