Super Bowl Eat a Thon

Feb 07 2010

Posted by johnbarban in Weight Loss, food

Today is one of the biggest eating days in north america. It’s the super bowl celebration Eat-a-Thon.

I’m going to one our favorite local sports bars with some buddies where we will indulge on all you can eat chicken wings, pizza, nacho’s, beer, and all other forms of sports bar/pub food.

Tomorrow and Tuesday will be a lower calorie days to keep me right where I need to be.

Nothing special, just accounting for today’s overage with a couple days of lower calorie eating.

The key thing is to pay attention to the degree which we can all overeat in one day vs undereat.

Obviously the lowest amount of calories I can eat in one day is zero. Since my 24hr BMR is about 1900 calories, that means it will take me a full day of fasting to compensate for overeating by 1900 calories.

I’m guessing I’ll eat about 3500 calories today, so that’ll put me about 1600 above what I needed for the day. So tomorrow and Tuesday I’ll shoot for an 800 calorie deficit both days and by Wednesday I’ll be back to even.

John

5 Responses to “Super Bowl Eat a Thon”

Rob Says:
February 7th, 2010 at 7:25 am
John-
On regular, non-celebration days, what do you do in terms of trying to eat “healthy” food? Or, is energy balance all that you go for?
johnbarban Says:
February 7th, 2010 at 9:47 am
Rob,

Energy balance is my primary guide. I don’t really seek out any particular food for it’s marketing merit as being ‘healthy’ or not…mostly because there is no such thing as a ‘healthy’ food.

JB
Tol Says:
February 7th, 2010 at 10:45 am
There is more Nutriënt dense food though
Andrew Says:
February 7th, 2010 at 1:26 pm
Good deal!

I managed to avoid today’s eat-a-thon by conveniently scheduling a 5-hour tattoo session at 3 pm.
Eddie Says:
February 8th, 2010 at 7:46 pm
Your BMR is only 1900? That sounds a little low for a big guy like you. I’m 5′ 9″, 33 years old… I just checked an online calculator and it says my BMR is about 1700. Goodness gracious that’s a low number. Here I’ve been restricting my calories to 1900 calories and thinking I was 500 below my BMR. By the way, I found the number I was using (2400) with the iPod app Lose It!

I’ll have to rethink my strategy. Somehow I’ve been able to drop 7lbs of fat and increase my strength a good amount.

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