12/14/2005 - A quantitative day in Upstate New York

Here are some numbers that have been bouncing around in my head:

According to some website (now that's a credible source) a sedentary male, weighing 150 pounds needs to consume about 1,800 calories a day to maintain his weight. Another website suggests that 7,000 steps is a reasonable proxy for sedentary. Finally, at 150 pounds, 1,000 steps burns about 44 calories.

That would seem to mean that if I continue to average 14,000 steps a day (as I more or less am) I would need to consume about 2,100 calories a day to maintain my weight.

Now for the other side of the equation. For breakfast, I have cereal and milk -- call it 400 calories. Lunch tends to be PB&J, call it another 500. Snack? Oh, let's just say 300 calories and leave it at that. Dinner? I guess it's conceivable that I consume as much as 900 calories at a typical dinner. Dinner is generally something tasty from my wife, so I don't really have the ability to guess at caloric intake.

That may explain why I haven't lost a pound yet. Poot.

11,100 disappointed steps today. Cheers,