In my never ending quest for the perfect body (or at least my personal best in my own eyes), I have been calculating some important figures. When I talk about my personal best body I simply mean a proportional waist to chest and overall leanness to my body.
Being a small framed person it’s very easy for a small amount of fat to look unsightly.
Technically according to common standards I am underweight, yes that’s right for my height and age I should be somewhere between 75 – 77kgs.
Personally I find that silly. I am also considered to be “lean” with a body fat percentage of somewhere between 12 – 13%.
Now onto some trivia!
1 pound of fat takes 3500 calories to burn (approximate)
1 Glass of white wine has on average 70 calories, Red wine has more at 84 calories
This should be my calorie intake
Maintenance: 2466 Calories/day
Fat Loss: 1973 Calories/day
Extreme Fat Loss: 1480 Calories/day
So rounding it off, to lose weight I can have up to 2000 calories a day or there about and that would lave me with a deficit of about 500 calories. On that basis, if I wanted to lose say 1 kgs which is about 2.5 pounds that equates to 8750 calories which is 18 days, so less than three weeks.
Aim to Lose = 1kg Fat (2.5 pounds)
Total Calories t be burnt 2.5 x 3500 = 8750 calories
Calorie Deficit per day = 500 calories
Total Days = 17.5 days
So for every 1kg of body mass takes about 18 days of 2000 calories.
If we factor on even more calculations I weight 74 kgs and I have approximately 13% body fat which is:
74Kgs x 13% = 9.62
So by this calculation, for every 1% of body fat I lose it’s about .75 kgs of weight.
So it would take me 52.5 days to get down to 10% body fat.
Personally I think I just need to do more exercise and eat less and do it quicker!
And people don’t think I am obsessive!