drive your car up to a window in the side of a building and g et 1,000 calories within a couple of minutes — and only pay a few bucks for it.
Thirsty? Do the same — in some states it can even be alcohol! That's right, you can buy alcohol at a drive-thru liquor st ore.
Need to do some banking? Drive up and get s ervice again. Don't make us wait more than a couple of minutes or we get fidgety. And do NOT make us wait more than five seconds for an elevat or or we'll mash that button 10 more ti mes.
Not able to go 75 in a 55-mph zone? We get pissed as hell stuck behin d someone doing 5 mp h slower than we are driving. N ever mind that they're speeding , too.
Want to watch a movie? Now you don't even need to wait for a specific show time or stand in any ticket lines. Just click a few buttons on your TV remote and you'v e got instant movie at home. Want some popcorn to go with that? Say hello to Orville Redenb acher in the microwave.
Pets? No problem. I can get someone to show up a t my house and shampoo my dog right in the driv eway in a mobile grooming van.
Need cr edit for a big purchase? Clickety-click online, baby.
Want a vintage “ Operatio n ” game (I hated the wishbone)? I can get just about anything delivered to my front door in one-two days thanks to companies like eBay and Amazon .com .
Hells bells, you don't even have to drag yourself to the grocery store anymore. Order what you need online and PeaPod or Safeway or Amazo n Fresh shows up the SAME DAY.
Have I made my po int yet?
And so here you are trying to lose weight and , dang it, that friggin ' scale just won't mo ve fast enough. You want in your skinny jeans NOW — I mean, good grief, you ate salad twice in one day, right? So where's the progress?
This is where patience wins out.
We have talked about the calorie-math of weight gain/loss. As a quick review, there are 3,500 calories in a pound and you need a 500 calorie/day deficit to lose one pound per week — 1,000 to lose two pounds per week (over the long haul, of course — body weight can fluctuate for reasons other than fat stores). The inverse of that is also true. If you have a 500 calorie/day surplus, you'll GAIN a pound a week — or two pounds if it's 1,000/day.
Let's think about caloric surpluses a bit more. If you ate a Mega Burger with c heese one day, a Personal Pizza Trough another, two chocolate glazed doughnuts for breakfast one morning, some cheese dip just because it looked so good, and a couple of pieces of fried chicken , all of which you didn't need (meaning your daily caloric needs were already being met by all the other stuff you choked down), you'd have about a pound of fat. You could do that in a month or even a week — and some people manage to pull it off in a day! That's right; there are some of you out there putting down crazy amounts of calories every day. And that's the first point in patience — you can theoretically poke down food ad infinitum.
On the flip side is the calorie deficit. Like I just said — a 500 calorie/day deficit will lead to a pound/week lost over time. Let's assume you've been eating about 3,500 calories/day and gained a bunch of weight because you only need 2,500 — say you put on 50 pounds . To reverse that, cut out the extra 1,000/day and wait it out — 25 weeks to be exact (that's about six or seven months). We both know you don't want to wait six or seven months. You want that weight gone in a few weeks (you want what you want when you want it) but yo u'd settle for a month, right?
OK , let's take the deficit to the extreme: eat nothing (I'm not suggesting this as a course of action — just making a point). You'd be down 3,500 calories/day (from your original intake) and it would take 50 days to drop 50 pounds . That's still two months — plus you'd be pretty grumpy and probably dead. What if you did an extreme diet of 1,000
Thirsty? Do the same — in some states it can even be alcohol! That's right, you can buy alcohol at a drive-thru liquor st ore.
Need to do some banking? Drive up and get s ervice again. Don't make us wait more than a couple of minutes or we get fidgety. And do NOT make us wait more than five seconds for an elevat or or we'll mash that button 10 more ti mes.
Not able to go 75 in a 55-mph zone? We get pissed as hell stuck behin d someone doing 5 mp h slower than we are driving. N ever mind that they're speeding , too.
Want to watch a movie? Now you don't even need to wait for a specific show time or stand in any ticket lines. Just click a few buttons on your TV remote and you'v e got instant movie at home. Want some popcorn to go with that? Say hello to Orville Redenb acher in the microwave.
Pets? No problem. I can get someone to show up a t my house and shampoo my dog right in the driv eway in a mobile grooming van.
Need cr edit for a big purchase? Clickety-click online, baby.
Want a vintage “ Operatio n ” game (I hated the wishbone)? I can get just about anything delivered to my front door in one-two days thanks to companies like eBay and Amazon .com .
Hells bells, you don't even have to drag yourself to the grocery store anymore. Order what you need online and PeaPod or Safeway or Amazo n Fresh shows up the SAME DAY.
Have I made my po int yet?
And so here you are trying to lose weight and , dang it, that friggin ' scale just won't mo ve fast enough. You want in your skinny jeans NOW — I mean, good grief, you ate salad twice in one day, right? So where's the progress?
This is where patience wins out.
We have talked about the calorie-math of weight gain/loss. As a quick review, there are 3,500 calories in a pound and you need a 500 calorie/day deficit to lose one pound per week — 1,000 to lose two pounds per week (over the long haul, of course — body weight can fluctuate for reasons other than fat stores). The inverse of that is also true. If you have a 500 calorie/day surplus, you'll GAIN a pound a week — or two pounds if it's 1,000/day.
Let's think about caloric surpluses a bit more. If you ate a Mega Burger with c heese one day, a Personal Pizza Trough another, two chocolate glazed doughnuts for breakfast one morning, some cheese dip just because it looked so good, and a couple of pieces of fried chicken , all of which you didn't need (meaning your daily caloric needs were already being met by all the other stuff you choked down), you'd have about a pound of fat. You could do that in a month or even a week — and some people manage to pull it off in a day! That's right; there are some of you out there putting down crazy amounts of calories every day. And that's the first point in patience — you can theoretically poke down food ad infinitum.
On the flip side is the calorie deficit. Like I just said — a 500 calorie/day deficit will lead to a pound/week lost over time. Let's assume you've been eating about 3,500 calories/day and gained a bunch of weight because you only need 2,500 — say you put on 50 pounds . To reverse that, cut out the extra 1,000/day and wait it out — 25 weeks to be exact (that's about six or seven months). We both know you don't want to wait six or seven months. You want that weight gone in a few weeks (you want what you want when you want it) but yo u'd settle for a month, right?
OK , let's take the deficit to the extreme: eat nothing (I'm not suggesting this as a course of action — just making a point). You'd be down 3,500 calories/day (from your original intake) and it would take 50 days to drop 50 pounds . That's still two months — plus you'd be pretty grumpy and probably dead. What if you did an extreme diet of 1,000
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