Losing weight

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  1. THE HCP

    THE HCP NorthEastPortland'sFinest

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    What is the best way to keep track of your calorie intake? I have no idea how many calories are in a tuna sandwhich.
     
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    And how many calories should I be eating a day? Or actually how many should I NOT be eating?
     
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    Weigh yourself regularly. If you are careful not to do any exercise, you'll be able to compute the calories you consumed from the weight gain.

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    Well it is pretty complicated. Put the food in a metal cup submerged in water and measure temperature in °C. This is T initial. You have to burn the sandwich in a metal cup to get T final. Measure the mass of the water in grams, multiplied by 4.18 Joules/g°C, multiplied by delta T. To summarize:

    q=Masswater x specific heatwater x ΔTwater

    (q=Heat in calories or joules) (T=temperature) (ΔTwater=Tfinal-Tinitial) (spefic heat of water= 4.18 J/g °C)

    (Masswater = Mass of water in box - mass of box w/o water)
    (joules to calore conversion 1 calorie=4.184 Joules)

    Read more: http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_do_scientists_determine_how_many_calories_a_food_has#ixzz1VKTFBYjM

    So make sure you burn the whole sandwich first, then you'll know everything. :O
     
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    By tuna sandwich he means his wife laying in the middle of himself and BeerBoy.
     
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    ^Well typed!
     
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    Seriously, though, check out MyFitnessPal.com. It'll set you up with a great way to track all the food you eat, how many calories are in that food, how many calories you need to cut to lose weight, etc.
     
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    Thats actually great advice! Thanks for that and repped! Oh and also yes myfitness pal is AWESOME I have that on my Iphone and it breaks everything down for you. And tells you how many calories you have left etc. Keep up the good work Mook!
     
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