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Re:Ask HN: How and when do you log your food? by auganov on Wednesday October 15, 2014 @08:46AM (#8458128)
I'd use cronometer.com everyday and try to always get the calorie counts right (didn't care so much about other metrics). My margin of error was around 50 calories/day (figured out by comparing with expected weight loss). The thing is after around 2 months I developed a fairly good intuition and just didn't need to use the software anymore.
Re:Ask HN: How and when do you log your food? by aismail on Wednesday October 15, 2014 @12:03PM (#8459151)
I personally use MyFitnessPal + some techniques to do food logging and get the calories burned from BodyMedia. How do you get your own calories burned?
Re:Ask HN: How and when do you log your food? by auganov on Wednesday October 15, 2014 @01:06PM (#8459857)
I don't exercise, slightly adjusted BMR x 1.2 pretty much worked.
Re:Ask HN: How and when do you log your food? by aismail on Thursday October 16, 2014 @01:11AM (#8463470)
So you prefer not to exercise to eating more and exercising?
Re:Ask HN: How and when do you log your food? by auganov on Thursday October 16, 2014 @03:45AM (#8463828)
It's kind of hard (if you're not into exercise) to burn more than 400 daily. So given that I burn ~1580/day by default an extra 300 is not such a big incentive to exercise. It's just an extra small meal/snack.
Re:Ask HN: How and when do you log your food? by aismail on Thursday October 16, 2014 @08:25AM (#8464505)
Using http://www.myfitnesspal.com/tools/bmr-calculator, it seems that "by default I burn around" 1.9kcal per day. However I've found it quite easy to hack 700 of them into a day just by exercising for 10 minutes and having more walking meetings. In your case, do you consider walking exercising?
Re:Ask HN: How and when do you log your food? by auganov on Thursday October 16, 2014 @10:16AM (#8464964)
So you burn a total of 2600 kcal day and 700 is from the 10 minute exercise and walking meetings? Sounds like the exercise has to be super intense? Or tons of walking. Well I consider all non-bmr' burn exercise. I rarely even leave my house and when I do it's usually 3 blocks away, so under 20kcal. Fidgeting would probably contribute more lol.
Re:Ask HN: How and when do you log your food? by aismail on Thursday October 16, 2014 @11:28AM (#8465414)
I actually burn more than that (I average somewhere above 3000kcal), but the 2600 that I mentioned is from mostly passive activities. Did you know that Nelson Mandela walked 7 miles in his cell every day? I don't think working at home should stop us from being more active.
Re:Ask HN: How and when do you log your food? by auganov on Thursday October 16, 2014 @01:19PM (#8466073)
The thing with me is that I'm not so bullish on health (or other) benefits inherent to exercise. So if I was to go out of my way and exercise i'd only do it to eat more. And yea walking around a room is fun, especially if you're locked up in a cell :-D I do that once in a while when I get excited about a new concept.