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Subject: Re: rest metabolism

Author:
mrsk

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Date Posted: 14:13:27 03/21/05 Mon
In reply to: chocolate 's message, "rest metabolism" on 09:28:20 03/21/05 Mon

>Hi,
>
>I know a lot of people want to know how much their
>metabolism burns while doing nothing so here it is:
>
>Restmetabolism is the metabolism of internal
>processes. Basically this means that it is what your
>body burns by doing nothing. So if you would lie in
>bed and dont talk or move at all. Just breath and
>think and your blood pumps around:
>
>*take your weight in pounds and convert it to kilos:
> one pound is 0.453592 kilos
>*take your weight in kilos times 24 times
>*this is the amount of calories you burn while doing
>
> absolutely nothing.
>
>So by example: I weigh 103 pounds
>
>103 pounds times 0.453592 is 47 kilos
>47 times 24 is 1128
>
>So if I would lay in bed for an entire day and do
>nothing (not even turn around) my body would burn 1128
>calories. (if not in starvation mode)
>
>just thought you would want to know.
>
>(p.s. if you would want to calculate this for a male
>the calculation would be different)
>
>Chocolate

Thats a lot considering what most of us eat.

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Subject	Author	Date
Re: rest metabolism	Chocolate	14:26:54 03/21/05 Mon