{"id":23826,"date":"2018-11-06T05:49:06","date_gmt":"2018-11-06T11:49:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=23826"},"modified":"2018-11-06T05:49:06","modified_gmt":"2018-11-06T11:49:06","slug":"its-called-metabolism-karen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/06\/its-called-metabolism-karen\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Called Metabolism, Karen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Perhaps this post will read a little like a humblebrag, but it&#8217;s for something I didn&#8217;t accomplish, so I cannot really take credit for it in any way, shape or form.<\/p>\n<p>But when I read the nutrition information on the back of food products, and it says, &#8220;Based on a 2000 calorie a day diet&#8230;.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/2000calories.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>I laugh and laugh at the presumption.  Yesterday, I got up at 5:00 as is my wont, and according to my FitBit, I had already burned 579 calories.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/579calories.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Friends, this would mean I would burn about 2800 calories a day <em>sleeping<\/em> (and going to the bathroom once or twice).<\/p>\n<p>That might be a little high for the sleeping burn, but if I exercise at all, I get close to 4000 calories a day on the FitBit.  Extra active days, like a couple of weeks ago when I ran a 5k and then shoveled mulch for my children&#8217;s school, I burned nearly 5000.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, these are <em>FitBit calories<\/em>, and the numbers on the FitBit are precise but not necessarily accurate.  It does kind of match up with what I have experienced all my life.  How long it took me to put on any weight at all even when I lifted weights regularly.  The fact that my sainted mother lived on nothing but junk food and weighed about 100 pounds her entire life.<\/p>\n<p>So excuse me if I don&#8217;t watch what I eat.  There&#8217;s so much of it; I can&#8217;t see it all.<\/p>\n<p>Now, I am off to make a full breakfast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perhaps this post will read a little like a humblebrag, but it&#8217;s for something I didn&#8217;t accomplish, so I cannot really take credit for it in any way, shape or form. But when I read the nutrition information on the back of food products, and it says, &#8220;Based on a 2000 calorie a day diet&#8230;.&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23826"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23828,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23826\/revisions\/23828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}