2008-04-23
who's a loser? I am!
I’m not sure if anyone has noticed my total lack of an update on the local loser project. This would be because it sucks. First off, they have way too many people signed up. There were about 50 of us. Personal attention? Yeah, alrighty then.
I did get to talk to the nutritionist. My height is under 5’8” so I should eat 1400 calories a day. The conversation went something like this …
Me: “I think I’m confused, my BMR is 1911, so how does my exercise figure in?”
Nut: “The 1400 calories accounts for you exercising and reducing your calories.”
Me: “Even though my BMR is 1911?”
Nut: “Yes, BMR accounts for exercise.”
Me: “Ok, then how many calories are ‘they’ assuming I’m burning?”
Nut: “250 and you are reducing your calorie intake 250. Remember your goal is to work up to 60 minutes a day of exercise.”
Me: “I can burn 300 in a half hour depending on the exercise, so does this affect my calorie count at all?”
Nut: (in a tone that distinctly implied I’m delusional about my calorie burn) “You need to work up to 60 minutes so you can burn 250 calories.”
Me: “If I do a full 60 minutes of cardio I’m closer to 500 calories burned.”
Nut: (patronizingly) “Well consider that a bonus!”
I’m also a week and a half into it and my personal coach that is suppose to contact me weekly hasn’t yet contacted me. I can’t tell you how much that support means to me!
I had more than one person who was suppose to be a “professional” tell me that your BMR is the amount of calories your body burns a day doing normal activities. Funny thing is my body composition test has the model number of the tester on the top of it. Imagine what one can find if one, oh, googles that model and looks at the manual for the tester?!
Basal metabolic rate (BMR) is the number of calories metabolized at rest during 24 hours and is the key to effective weight management. For a typical patient, BMR accounts for more than ninety percent of total daily expenditure - more than ninety percent of calories are burned while the patient is at rest.
So if I wore a diaper, stayed in bed for 24 hours, and never did more than blink, I would need 1911 calories to exist.
Eating 1400 calories a day and exercising should have me losing rather fast. Only it hasn’t, because I’m hungry all the time.
Yeah, so I feel like a loser, just not the kind I wanted to be.