saulrosenbaum.com / Carbs + Calories

Last friday I went to a nutritionist, I won’t bore you with the details — but the equation basically is; poor eating habits x 20 years = illness, so I changed everything about my eating habits 5 weeks ago [shortly after being diagnosed with the illness] and I was feeling pretty good about ever decisions I made - I was eating a protein packed 1000 - 1200 calories per day, I had minimal carbs, almost no sugar, no additional salt - my energy level seems good. So what the nutritioinst told me was I WASN’T EATING ENOUGH! - excuse me? isn’t overeating what got me here in the first place?

The nutritionist drafted up a 1800 calorie / 206 carb-a-day diet. I’ve got to tell you - that’s a heck of a lot of carbs, and considering I was sated by the 1200 calories, those additional 600 calories - seem like a daunting task [I will be checking the carbs / calories in a pint of Ben & Jerry’s later today] — I’m tempted to just continue my original diet, but I promised “T” that I would at least try - so this morning I ate my fill of carbs, packing in a whopping 50g and 340 calories.

The math the nutritionist used is interesting though, it’s called the mufflin equation

For men:
Resting Metabolic Rate(10 x weight in kg) + (6.25 x height in cm) - (5 x age) + 5

For women:
Resting Metabolic Rate = (10 x weight in kg) + (6.25 x height in cm) - (5 x age) - 161

If your metrically challenged, here’s how you convert pounds(lbs) to kilograms(kg) and inches(in) to centimeters(cm)

kg = pounds / 2.2
cm = inches x 2.54

man I’m full.