Calories IN Calories OUT. WTF is the Truth?
Calories IN Calories OUT. WTF is the Truth? WTF is a calorie? Simply put . . . it is the amount of heat required to raise 1 kilogram of water one degree celcius. Geez, thanks Coach Clarence I am good now, watch the weight fall off (eye roll ensues). Energy is heat production. Whenever muscle contracts to initiate movement, heat is being generated, thus calories are being burned. If you were to measure your temperature right now, you would probably be in the vicinity of 98.6 degrees. Your body maintains heat on an ongoing basis, and since a calorie is a measure of heat production, it correlates to the amount of energy a food provides. I know you are thinking what does that mean to me? When the number of calories that you take in equals the number of calories that you expend in energy, you are maintaining an energy balance and your weight will not fluctuate very much. Conventional "diet wisdom" (a contradiction in terms) dictates that if you cut back on calories, you wil