JD_Johannes’s BodyBlog

On the morning of June 12th I weighed 206 pounds and looked like this.

Then I went on trip to San Diego for work and a lot of fun and came back on June 14 super bloated.

Today I am back down to 207.

That is up 12 pounds in a few days and down 11 pounds in 6 days.

The gain was from a lot more carbs, salt and sugar than I normally eat.  The loss was from my normal eating plan and training that worked most of the water and bloat out of my system.

If I was more ambitious huckster I would use the pics as before and afters and say some pill did the magic.  But it was just regular weight lifting, some intervals and a basic diet of meat, eggs, fish, oats and whey.

I’ve gotten a lot of questions about diet from people who are using formulas to determine their caloric intake.  In my opinion most of those formulas are not very useful.

Let me illustrate this with a common formula for determining resting metabolic rate.

RMR = 9.99(WEIGHT in Kilograms) + 6.25(HEIGHT in centimeters) - 4.92(AGE in years) + 166(GENDER)-161

If I were to plug in my specific data, the formula would look like this:

RMR = 9.99(94) + 6.25(177.8) - 4.92(36) + 166(1)-161

(*Note, men enter “1” for their gender, women enter “0”)

So if I calculate it out my RMR is 1,879 calories.

Ok.  Now, how on earth was this formula derived?

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