Current Events > calories make literally zero sense

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take 1 sip of water: gain a trillion calories

work out for 5 hours: lose 2 calories

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Its scientific

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ok, fatty

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you're not supposed to add sugar to your water

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That's some water.

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nfearurspecimn posted...

you're not supposed to add sugar to your water

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E32005 posted...

ok, fatty

i'm not american

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Choco posted...

take 1 sip of water: gain a trillion calories

Wut
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E32005 posted...

ok, fatty

WOW

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Choco posted...

i'm not american

your "math" skills prove otherwise

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Smashingpmkns posted...

Wut

what is hyperbole

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Username checks out

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They're really quite simple to understand the basics. What's troubling you? I can try to explain.

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https://youtu.be/WA01sf1FUbE

Pizza would have been a better example. Pizza having so many calories is proof God doesnt exist.
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3PiesAndAFork posted...

They're really quite simple to understand the basics. What's troubling you? I can try to explain.

ok so i never cared about calories and had no concept of how many calories is a lot or little etc.

but i've been playing wii fit u lately and it tells me how many calories i burned after every game/exercise
so now i kind of have a concept of calorie amounts

but when i look at the amounts on food packaging i'm like ???
how am i burning this many calories in a day

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Because there is more to health when it comes to calories than how many go in and come out.

The biggest thing most people never know is that when it comes to food and calories, there's a whole metric ton of information that ties into all aspects of the endocrine system. Different foods have different amounts of "calories" depending on the macronutrient. Different foods, vitamins, minerals and chemicals also affect people's individual physiology in certain ways, such as hormones and catecholamines and their relationships between different organs like the brain, heart, liver, pancreas, etc.

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Water literally has no calories...

Choco posted...

ok so i never cared about calories and had no concept of how many calories is a lot or little etc.

but i've been playing wii fit u lately and it tells me how many calories i burned after every game/exercise
so now i kind of have a concept of calorie amounts

but when i look at the amounts on food packaging i'm like ???
how am i burning this many calories in a day

You burn a good amount of calories just by existing, exercise is just an extra bonus

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Choco posted...

ok so i never cared about calories and had no concept of how many calories is a lot or little etc.

but i've been playing wii fit u lately and it tells me how many calories i burned after every game/exercise
so now i kind of have a concept of calorie amounts

but when i look at the amounts on food packaging i'm like ???
how am i burning this many calories in a day

a calorie is just a unit of measurement

for one, fitness trackers never do a good job of reading caloric burn of intake because they cant truly do that, its all estimates.


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nfearurspecimn posted...

you're not supposed to add sugar to your water

https://i.imgur.com/EvWYRBG.jpg
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Choco posted...

ok so i never cared about calories and had no concept of how many calories is a lot or little etc.

but i've been playing wii fit u lately and it tells me how many calories i burned after every game/exercise
so now i kind of have a concept of calorie amounts

but when i look at the amounts on food packaging i'm like ???
how am i burning this many calories in a day

I'm going to complicate things for you.

There's something called a Basal Metabolic Rate (BMR) which is how many calories you use just to live and breathe. This is loosely based on your height, weight, age, and gender.

Then there is your daily caloric needs, which basically multiplies your BMR by a certain number based on your lifestyle (like for a sedentary person, their BMR would be multiplied by 1.2 (I think) to give the number you actually use in the day).

Simply put, if the calories you take in via food and drink is greater than the calories you need (your daily caloric need + whatever you burn by exercising), you gain weight. If you eat 3,500 more calories than you burn (over whatever period of time), you gain a pound of fat. Viceversa for losing fat.

Now, things do get more complicated based on a variety of factors, but TBH it's not that important for the every day person to know.

Edit: calculators for this stuff are a dime a dozen online, just google it.

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3PiesAndAFork posted...

I'm going to complicate things for you.

There's something called a Basal Metabolic Rate (BMR) which is how many calories you use just to live and breathe. This is loosely based on your height, weight, age, and gender.

Then there is your daily caloric needs, which basically multiplies your BMR by a certain number based on your lifestyle (like for a sedentary person, their BMR would be multiplied by 1.2 (I think) to give the number you actually use in the day).

Simply put, if the calories you take in via food and drink is greater than the calories you need (your daily caloric need + whatever you burn by exercising), you gain weight. If you eat 3,500 more calories than you burn (over whatever period of time), you gain a pound of fat. Viceversa for losing fat.

Now, things do get more complicated based on a variety of factors, but TBH it's not that important for the every day person to know.

Edit: calculators for this stuff are a dime a dozen online, just google it.

thanks but i actually knew most of that already

i guess i just find it mind-blowing how little difference exercising makes >_>

and how i could eat tons of sweets for years without getting fat <_<

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