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I am the perfect weight for my height. But in Ab Country, California, that is never enough. I have a cast iron stomach as I have done a hundred crunches a day for the last couple of years, however it is hidden under a 1 inch layer of sub cutaneous fat. So my goal is to lose that fat but to maintain weight as well. A strange problem indeed...
After enough research on the internet, I have compiled the facts and made a plan of action.
The facts are as below:
* The good news is that the body is made to lose weight. Even if you do not do any thing, you will still burn up Calories at the rate of your RMR (Rest Metabolic Rate). That value of RMR for me is 1620 Calories/day. (source : http://www.shapeup.org/interactive/rmr1.php)
* The body needs for it's nutrition 1200 Calories of food per day. Eating any less than that reduces your LBM (Lean Body Mass or Muscle Mass) and also your RMR. So people who eat less to lose weight are making a grave mistake, as they lower their RMR and lose muscle mass, so they need to work extra hard to lose weight and also to get muscles back. A person who fasts on nothing but water all day may will also lose weight, but 60% of their weight loss will be muscle.
* To lose 1 lb of fat, one has to burn 3500 Calories.
* The amount of Calories you burn per mile is equal to double your weight in pounds divided by 3.5. Running a distance or Walking the same distance, one burns the same amount of Calories. But most people including me can walk a distance more comfortably than run the same distance, except that it takes more time. So if you want to lose weight, and if you have time, walk, do not run.
* A comfortable walking speed on a treadmill would be 4 mph or 15 minutes to a mile.
So for me to lose 1 lb of fat per day, I would need to burn 3500 - 1620 + 1200 = 3080 Calories. I burn 150 * 2 / 3.5 = 85 Calories per mile on the treadmill. So I would have to cover a distance of 3080 / 85 = 35 miles and that would take me 35 * 15 / 60 = 8.75 hours.
So that means I could lose 1 lb of fat a day without changing my diet by just walking almost 9 hours per day. Of course that is not practical, but if I could walk 2 hours a day, and then I would lose the same in a little more than 4 days.
So the final equation is as below:
Hrs to walk in the Gym to lose 1 lb of fat = 3.5 * (4700 - RMR) / (8 * Weight)
To give the body the right signals, walking would need to be coupled with 1/2 an hour of anaerobic exercises (weights) in the gym and a high protein intake. Basically, the body needs to be conditioned to realize that the muscles need to stay, and only fat needs to be consumed...
EDIT: Let me add one very interesting calculation here.
* It takes one Calorie to raise the temperature of 1 kilogram of water by 1 degree Celsius. That is the definition of a Calorie.
* One must drink at least 8, 8 ounces glasses of water each day.
* There are 236.59 grams in 8 fluid ounces of water
That would mean if you drink 64 ounces of water a day, and the water is almost ice cold, let us say at 2 degrees Celsius, your body would have to burn 236.59 * 35 * 8 / 1000 = 66.245 Calories to raise the temperature of the water to your body temperature of 37 degrees Celsius. That is equivalent to 66.245 * 3.5 / (2 * 150) = 0.77 miles in the gym for me and all I had to do was drink water. 
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| I have been told that I am quite unassuming a person. But I am
what I am because I make a conscious effort not to drag the Ego behind
me all the time. However some rare circumstances warrant the unbinding
of the fetters that control the Ego. And I had one such circumstance
last week... an interview....
Yes, it is one of those rare circumstances when someone asks me
"Tell me something about yourself" and waits to hear an elaborate
answer, and I sit back and smile and I unleash the demon on the
unsuspecting interviewer. What follows is usually a one hour long
tirade of my ambitions, my achievements, my experience, my
frustrations, my motivations etc. etc...... During the course of my
monologue, the interviewer's expressions transform from an initial
smile, to wide-eyed silence, and eventually to a satisfied exhaustion. By the
time the interviewer is all spent, I am just about started...
On the long walk back to the parking lot, I feel rather good about
myself for releasing all that pent-up ego. The next week however is a week of wait and
depression that possibly my demon was not as effective as I expected.
The week after usually has been a time of joy, and the time to lock the
demon back in it's dungeon till the next time... | | |
| Those hot dry winds that come down through the mountain passes and
curl your hair and make your nerves jump and your skin itch. On nights
like that every booze party ends in a fight. Meek little wives feel the
edge of the carving knife and study their husbands' necks. Anything can
happen.
—Raymond Chandler, "Red Wind"
It is said that there is a wicked witch who lives up in the Santa Ana mountains, and as summer comes, her hot breath flows into the valley and make people murderous. This summer wind is called the Santa Anas and this time the Santa Anas did more, it set fire to 200,000 acres of land wasting a lot of property and some life in beautiful Southern California...
My apartment complex with the Santiago Canyon fire in the background.
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| You would be surprised that there are some people in the United States who think that 'Global Warming' is a myth. Duh! I scoff at those who do. Global Warming is a reality...
In fact, 'Global Warming' is actually part of the 'War on Terror'. For years, there is this global group who call themselves 'Iceborgs', that is terrorizing ships at sea, targeting innocent American civilians and killing American soldiers for e.g. the Titanic was sunk by one such 'Iceborg' which had a death toll of 1490 American and British civilians. It is time that we stand up to these 'Iceborgs' and destroy them and avenge the death of innocent American civilians. Anybody who does not support 'Global Warming' is unpatriotic, in fact I would say, a traitor against the United States of America, and this includes Al Gore...
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| "An an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth and the killer is killed." - Osama Bin Laden.
"An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind" - Gandhi
It is fascinating to see the US media, the War Propaganda Machine at work. They are currently
busy in the propaganda for the Iran war which I expect to be around mid
2008. The President of Iran, Ahmadinejad
was invited to speak at Columbia University this week and was ridiculed
instead. It is also fascinating to read the point of view of most
Americans who believe this man to the epitome of all that is evil. It is
claimed that this man is a Holocaust denier, he has given fiery
speeches calling for "Israel to be wiped of the map" and has presided over parades with banners of "Death to
America". It is sad that everyone believes these bits and pieces of
information without a doubt, and no one tries to confirm the truth or
context of the statements made, or view the historical context of this
country.
Let me take you back to 1952 when Iran was on the brink of
true democracy. At that time, Iranian oil was monopolized by the
Anglo-Iranian Oil Company, now British Petroleum, in an agreement to
share profits at the "fair" rates of 85% British-15% Iran. Due to alleged profit
monopolization by the Anglo-Iranian Oil company, the Iranian Parliament
led by the democratically elected nationalist Prime Minister Mohammed Mossadeq unanimously agreed to nationalize its holding of, what was at the time,
the British Empire’s largest company. The United States and Britain,
through a now-admitted covert operation of the CIA called "Operation
Ajax", conducted from the US Embassy in Tehran, helped organize protests
to overthrow Moussadeq and put the Shah back in Iran. Iran's fledgling attempts at democracy quickly
descended into dictatorship, as the Shah dismantled the constitutional
limitations on his office and began to rule as an absolute monarch. The
Shah was a US puppet, who was overthrown in the 1979 revolution by hardline
Islamic Conservatives. That is how democracy was killed in Iran and
Islamic fundamentalism came into power and that is who killed it.
Let me take you to September 1980, the beginning of the Iran-Iraq
war. This war lasted 8 years till August 1988. The war began when Iraq
invaded Iran on 22 September 1980 following a long history of border
disputes and demands for the overthrow of Saddam Hussein's regime. The
US supported Saddam Hussein during the Iran-Iraq War as a
counterbalance to post-revolutionary Iran. The support took the form of
technological aid, intelligence, the sale of dual-use and military
equipment, and direct involvement and warfare against Iran. Saddam used
mustard gas and tabun
nerve agents against Iranian troops. An estimated 500,000 Iranian
soldiers/militia/civilians were killed and wounded. Meanwhile in July 3,
1988, the cruiser USS Vincennes
shot down Iran Air Flight 655 with the loss of all 290 civilian
passengers and crew. The American government claimed that the airliner
had been mistaken for an Iranian F-14 Tomcat, the U.S. eventually paid
compensation for the incident but never apologized. That is how the
seeds of discord were sowed and that is who did it.
Today, Iran has 2 of its borders surrounded by the US. To the
east, Iraq and to the north, Afghanistan are US occupied territories.
The US regular news is steeped in anti-Iran rhetoric, and Iran has been
declared long back as one of the "axis of evil". So is
it surprising that Iran is now allegedly pursuing a covert nuclear weapons program, the
one program that finally makes the world pay attention. North
Korea did it, India did it, Pakistan did it. Amhadinejad's
Holocaust denial was originally a rhetorical question that has been
repeated again
and again in the US media out of context, what he said was "If the
Holocaust really happened, then should not the Israelis have more
sympathy, how could they mete out the same treatment to the
Palestinians as they received from the Nazis." Iran is equated with
terrorism even when the Supreme Leader of Iran, Khomeini has always categorically
condemned the 911 attacks and other terrorist events. Yes, they might be far from the US when it comes to human rights, but no revolution has ever been without bloodshed and who is to
blame, and is that reason enough to bomb them. Iraq under Saddam and
present
Saudi Arabia has perhaps a worse record of human rights and repression
than Iran ever had. And let me remind you that Ahmadinejad
is the democratically elected president, unlike the US ally Musharraf
of Pakistan who is a dictator. While it is true that Iran has often called for the
political collapse of Israel, and "Death to America" was a common chant
during the Iran-Iraq war for obvious reasons, the current Iran is the
result of the hate and evil sowed by the US in the past. If diplomacy can
work with the North Korean dictatorship, it can surely work with the
Iranian democracy as well. But alas, there will be a war, and the people
who wish to profit will profit from it, and thousands of innocents
will again die of a conflict that could have been resolved simply because no one was humble enough to talk... | | |
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