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msbelle - Apr 30, 2008 11:31:18 am PDT #4346 of 10001

I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

thanks. that was my gut reaction also, but it seemed an easier solution than increasing exercise. I always want the easier fix.

megan walker - Apr 30, 2008 11:32:06 am PDT #4347 of 10001

"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist

It's pretty low calorie, msbelle. My gut says too low, but that's just me.

For goodness sake msbelle, that's only 3 Starbucks cookies!!

Jesse - Apr 30, 2008 11:33:17 am PDT #4348 of 10001

Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

This 1200 calorie menu looks fairly tragic to me: [link]

Here's the "American cuisine" one: [link]

msbelle - Apr 30, 2008 11:36:26 am PDT #4349 of 10001

I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

I feel like I have been eating way more than that 1600 cal/day diet and yet FitDay tells me no.

Steph L. - Apr 30, 2008 11:48:33 am PDT #4350 of 10001

I look more rad than Lutheranism

The UN's hunger-fighting organization, the World Food Programme, generally cites anything below 2350 calories/day as below the "food security" line (aka, not adequate intake, or, what used to be called HUNGER). (Here's an article that cites that amount: [link]

However, I'm assuming that's a very general number, applied globally to all adults (men and women). And, frankly, American women don't have to do 14 hours of hard physical labor a day the way men in developing countries do t edit (I'm making an assumption here that men in developing countries who don't have cars or public transportation and elevators, etc., and who probably don't work 9-to-5 desk jobs, expend more energy than the average American), so a small-to-average American woman like msbelle wouldn't need 2350 calories a day unless she was doing some serious triathalon training.

I've often read that, to maintain weight, multiply your weight x 10. If you engage in light activity it's weight x 12, moderate activity is weight x 13, and strenuous activity is weight x 15.

YCaloricNeedsMV.

Vortex - Apr 30, 2008 11:53:31 am PDT #4351 of 10001

"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman

So, theoretically, if you multiply your ideal weight by 10, you will lose weight if you weigh more than that?

Jesse - Apr 30, 2008 11:54:56 am PDT #4352 of 10001

Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

I've often read that, to maintain weight, multiply your weight x 10.

Huh! V. interesting.

msbelle - Apr 30, 2008 11:55:08 am PDT #4353 of 10001

I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

Vortex thinks like I do.

Cashmere - Apr 30, 2008 11:56:13 am PDT #4354 of 10001

Now tagless for your comfort.

Hangry is my new favorite word.

brenda m - Apr 30, 2008 11:56:34 am PDT #4355 of 10001

If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there

Ooh, I like that. But I don't think so. Say you're at 250 and want to go to 150. 1500 calories a day is just going to shut your system down hard, rather than start stripping the lbs off.

I do like Steph's little formula, though. And I choose to believe it is true, because the body has so many funky little points of symmetry.

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