-Doc Holiday
As mentioned in the previous post my local medical professional suggested trimming pounds off the old fat banks in order to calm the savage heart burn beast. But what I failed to mention was his strong recommendation to end my love affair with diet caffeine free sodas (I'll leave the grizzly details of embalming ourselves one Big Gulp at a time to the professional.) Now that I'm on a 12-step program to cut my aspartame dependency it notches my transformation toward a healthy eater one step closer to a lock stepping Whole Foods fascist... I AM, ROBOT!
Where to go now? What is the vision for this final stage of gastric reckoning? Can my hypocrisy truly handle the pressures of healthy living? Is there anyone out there? All valid and introspective questions, of which I dare not attempt to answer 1400 calories into a day with only 400 left on the menu -- greater men have buckled under more optimistic near future prospects. What I do know at this moment to be truth is the simple fact that fat sheds when I put less in the pie-hole and then pick the dumb bell up and put it down a bunch of times. And also with the occasional cardiovascular set to allow me time to think up these cathartic written exercises.
Ask and ye shall receive. I mentioned in passing in the last post the lack of nutritional commentary and/or advice in the blog, and voila, Ole JT serves it up on a platter! Not sure if it was intentional, but here we are. The number one question I get from new clients is "how many calories should I be eating per day?" The answer is no less complex than quantum physics, but no more complicated than simple algebra. Calories in vs. calories out equals change in body weight. This is the law of thermodynamics. Not the best guess of thermodynamics! It's literally X-Y=Z. If you can track your calorie intake for a week and track your weight change in that same week, you can solve for your calorie burn in that week. Once you know that number, you can determine how many calories you need to intake daily to ensure 2 pounds of weekly weight loss (a healthy rate).
ReplyDeleteNow, aspartame! The US is the only industrialized nation in the world that has not banned this abhorrent compound. It's in everything, diet sodas, chewing gum, low calorie salad dressings, yogurt... The lobbyists in Washington are too powerful. Only when the class action suits start to appear will it go away. Aspartame breaks down to its root elements at 86 degrees, far beneath body temperature. One of those root elements is formaldehyde! You are literally pickling your brain when you consume large quantities of diet soda. Like a voluntary lobotomy. Beyond the negative health aspects, diet sodas make you crave other sugary snacks, and it has a documented statistical link to a higher rate of diabetes. Beware of shady product labeling. Low fat, sugar free, low calorie don't always mean better for you or more appropriate for your diet. This may have been a boring blog entry, which is probably why we don't broach the nutrition barrier on the forum often, but hopefully it will inspire our one or two readers to rid themselves of sugar substitutes, and eat a responsible number of calories daily based on need, not some arbitrary number conceived by a beauty magazine, or lazy doctor. Good hunting!