living dangerously

For lunch today, I demolished two potato chips -- a barbecue flavor Oishi Ridges (125 calories) and a spicy barbecue flavor VCut (150 calories); one mango flavor Nestle Fruit Selection Yogurt (140 calories); and one mug of sugar-free Nescafe coffee, which is about 110 calories. That means 525 calories in one sitting! And it's not good for someone who has a sedentary lifestyle and weight a little more than the average Filipina. And half of that weight is because of my logs, I mean, legs :)

A calorie is simply a unit of energy. The number of calories in a food is a measure of how much potential energy that food possesses.

Sometimes, we consume more food and calories than our body could use or burn. An accumulation of 3,500 extra calories is stored by our body as 1 pound of fat. Fat is the body's way of saving energy. If we burn 3,500 more calories than we eat, whether by exercising more or eating less, our body converts 1 pound of its stored fat into energy to make up for the shortage.

I have read that women who do not have active lifestyles should only consume about 2,000 calories a day. And people like me, overweight and with little physical activity, should only have 900 to 1,500 calories a day so that we could use our stored energy or FAT :)

People wonder if it matters where their calories come from. According to howstuffworks, at its most basic, and if we're only talking about weight, the answer is no -- a calorie is a calorie.

But if we're talking about nutrition, it definitely matters where our calories originate.

And there lies another problem :)

A junk food lover like me would find it easier to balance our calorie intake by foregoing rice and other heavy carbohydrates rather than junk foods :)

Well, we only live once...so we might as well eat all we want :) Tomorrow can take care of itself :)


sayong
09-21-05 4:55pm