Mathematical Weight loss

Mathematical Weight loss

My last post was about how your body can burn fat. It's when your blood sugar is stable - see also "blood sugar stability"

Well I've now put together a post following on from a little research and from my meetup with Mark Macdonald last week.

First I'll put together the factoids and make up the math

According to metafilter
Weight gain is basically math based on the fact that 3500 calories = 1 lb of weight with a little bit of hand-waviness based on what your basic metabolism is.

According to NHS choices website
An average man uses 2500 calories a day and a woman 2000

So a little math could give you

Every day you eat enough food to put on ~1lb
Every day you burn off ~1lb

Now where does your body burn it from

According to Mark MacDonald and the fact of physiology that our bodies take energy by burning fat when our blood sugar is stable (between 80 and 120) Our bodies burn muscle when our blood sugar is low and when our blood sugar is high, we store fat.

So here's the opportunity.

If we keep our blood sugar stable, our energy from everything we do
comes from burning fat. Any food we eat is going to keep our blood sugar stable and any exercise beyond the norm.