Needz Moar Sweeties

[denny]

On a whim, I decided to count up how many calories I'd eaten/drunk at work today...

1 x cheese and ham toasted sandwich - estimated 400 600 kcal
2 x Orange Lucozade - 266 each
1 x battered sausage and chips (from fish and chip shop) - estimated 600 1000 kcal
1 x isotonic drink - 136 kcal
2 x mini Cadbury's Dairy Milk - 80 each
1 pack of cheap strawberry fizzy sweets - 240 kcal

600 + 266 + 266 + 1000 + 136 + 80 + 80 + 240 = 2668

[Plus dinner, which I've now forgotten but was probably not entirely healthy.]

The Lucozade bottle helpfully informs me that 266 kcal is 13% of my RDA, so that makes the RDA about 2050? [Or maybe 2500? Or 3000? PRACE BETS NOW!] Clearly I have a well-optimised terrible balanced frightening whatever diet. *cough*

Comments

[dennyd.livejournal.com]

Interesting that the RDA on a Lucozade bottle is the one for women. I suppose they're regarded as being more likely to care.

I did think having an RDA for calories didn't really make much sense anyway - surely it's entirely dependent on what you're doing that day?

[libellum.livejournal.com]

Yah. Also, lots of things burn unquantifiable amounts of calories, like problem-solving and worrying and experiencing intense emotions. Also, people have different metabolisms and burn calories at different rates. Calorie-counting is not a precise science, however much I wished it was for several years :)

[dennyd.livejournal.com]

I'm about 3/4 convinced that I burn off almost all of the chocolate and Lucozade I eat at work just by thinking very hard while I'm writing code.

[libellum.livejournal.com]

Quite possibly. But do you think very hard while you're writing code as often as you eat sugary snacks and sweeties?

[dennyd.livejournal.com]

Probably not. That's why I said '3/4 convinced' and 'almost all' :)