Re: How many calories is enough?

From: tcomeau (tunderbar_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 10/18/04 

Date: 18 Oct 2004 06:38:46 -0700

Matt Chiglinsky <matthewsc@comcast.net> wrote in message news:<lo66n0p6hqi3erd6sa8lqi8r29c7lguus8@4ax.com>...
> I've been thin all my life (male, age 26, 5' 10", 150 lb), so I always
> make sure I eat enough for fear that if I don't I may lose weight and
> get unhealthily skinny. At the same time, there's something I've
> never quite understood. For my age and weight I'm apparently supposed
> to get 2000 or more calories per day, but I'm pretty sure that except
> for days when I eat snacks or desserts, I don't. The only way I can
> figure to reach that number is either by eating enough fat I'd have a
> heart attack or enough carbohydrates my stomach would explode from
> such a large mass.
>
> So basically all the nutritional guidelines I've ever seen make no
> sense to me. Anyone care to explain? Do the laws of physics somehow
> cease to operate in my kitchen?

You are not going crazy. Calories do not make sense. The numbers do
not add up. They cannot accurately predict whether a person will gain
weight ot loss weight. Ignore them.

They are a relic from the age of alchemy that just will not go away.

TC

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