Friday, July 07, 2006
Personal Segment: Connection between Chat and Weight Loss
I have found a correlation between chatting and weight loss. This is a master of the obvious derivation, but bear with me :)
I am a chat addict so when I get on chat, I can't get off easily (no pun intended!!!). So I end up spending many hours in chat, which burns maybe 5 calories per hour, while at the same time I am snacking on chat-snacks, which add calories to the mix, even if they are healthy snacks. Just about any activity other than chat burns a lot more calories.
So for every pound of weight I lose, I will be allocating myself a block of chat time. Once I use up that block of time, I would have to wait until I lose another pound of weight in order to get another block of chat time. It may sound a bit convoluted, but it seems to work :-)
I am a chat addict so when I get on chat, I can't get off easily (no pun intended!!!). So I end up spending many hours in chat, which burns maybe 5 calories per hour, while at the same time I am snacking on chat-snacks, which add calories to the mix, even if they are healthy snacks. Just about any activity other than chat burns a lot more calories.
So for every pound of weight I lose, I will be allocating myself a block of chat time. Once I use up that block of time, I would have to wait until I lose another pound of weight in order to get another block of chat time. It may sound a bit convoluted, but it seems to work :-)
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I too am a chat-a-holic. This is a good idea, however, I don't need to loose weight. I need to get my skinny bumm to the gym to beef up - too skinny. Maybe I should only allow myself to chat for X hours for every pound of muscle I gain. 6'4 and 175 is too skinny. Now, just define X for me. :-) It's been 3 days with/out chat, so I'm doing better.
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: 3:20 PM
Chat-a-holics anonymous it is!!! - or eponymous in this case :-)
Yes, the same thing for muscle gain as well :-) My current rate is 8 hours of chat per 1lb of weight lost. I am guessing it's harder to gain 1 lb of muscle than lose 1lb of fat, so you should get more chat hours for each pound of muscle.
The "chat abstinence" works so far for me, altough I am tempted to tweak my scale to show a lower weight :-)
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Yes, the same thing for muscle gain as well :-) My current rate is 8 hours of chat per 1lb of weight lost. I am guessing it's harder to gain 1 lb of muscle than lose 1lb of fat, so you should get more chat hours for each pound of muscle.
The "chat abstinence" works so far for me, altough I am tempted to tweak my scale to show a lower weight :-)
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