Posted: 3/13/2011 5:47:50 AM EDT
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Yesterday I was helping a coworker new to working out with an exercise program. While talking, we discussed caloric intake. So I pulled up some different formulas to give her an idea how many calories it will take to maintain her current weight and how to safely loose weight. There are also addition formulas to figure out how many calories you need extra depending on level of activity and what those levels are....
Latter, I thought why am I not applying this to my food needs? Currently, I go thru I have X amount of servings of quick oats, Y amount of canned veggies etc etc. What I am not doing is seeing what the caloric intake of one serving of D and two servings of X and some m for dessert gives = XDm. Is that enough per meal per day, to include the increase of caloric needs (stress, working harder then ever) to be healthy and keep my family safe. Here is a site that is well rounded: metric and english, men and women and explains activity level. http://www.healthyweightforum.org/eng/weight-loss/calories-need.asp |