Do calories still exist if you don’t count them?
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It's a little known fact but calories are actually afraid of heights. Therefore if you put your food up high like on top of the fridge or top of the cupboard, calories will not inhabit them... too afraid.
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slimgirljo15 wrote: »It's a little known fact but calories are actually afraid of heights. Therefore if you put your food up high like on top of the fridge or top of the cupboard, calories will not inhabit them... too afraid.
Ooh good to know! Wait'll my dh gets home and sees all his cookies up high.
I don't think calories like the freezer either so we're safe there too, right? 1 -
slimgirljo15 wrote: »It's a little known fact but calories are actually afraid of heights. Therefore if you put your food up high like on top of the fridge or top of the cupboard, calories will not inhabit them... too afraid.
Ooh good to know! Wait'll my dh gets home and sees all his cookies up high. I don't think calories like the freezer either so we're safe there too, right?
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pancakerunner wrote: »Asking for a friend.
Of course not.....but my hips count them ☹️0 -
slimgirljo15 wrote: »It's a little known fact but calories are actually afraid of heights. Therefore if you put your food up high like on top of the fridge or top of the cupboard, calories will not inhabit them... too afraid.
If I'm SCUBA diving and decide to eat a scallop at depth, do I have to count extra calories?
If chocolate lands in my mouth while I'm sleeping, and I swallow it in a dream but don't notice it ever happened, were there calories? Are there fewer if it happens on top of a mountain?
I think "my friend" will have another ginger snap. And stand on tippy toes while they eat it, just in case.
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slimgirljo15 wrote: »It's a little known fact but calories are actually afraid of heights. Therefore if you put your food up high like on top of the fridge or top of the cupboard, calories will not inhabit them... too afraid.
If I'm SCUBA diving and decide to eat a scallop at depth, do I have to count extra calories?
If chocolate lands in my mouth while I'm sleeping, and I swallow it in a dream but don't notice it ever happened, were there calories? Are there fewer if it happens on top of a mountain?
I think "my friend" will have another ginger snap. And stand on tippy toes while they eat it, just in case.
Nope, you don't have to count extra for the scallop.. because the mouthful of seawater you would get at depth opening your mouth to eat it washes them out. 😆
Chocolate has so few calories, its a salad you know.. so eat it up high, down low anywhere you please.
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slimgirljo15 wrote: »It's a little known fact but calories are actually afraid of heights. Therefore if you put your food up high like on top of the fridge or top of the cupboard, calories will not inhabit them... too afraid.
I had no idea! Whoo-hoo!!! Sweet!!! ...living close to 8,000’ in the Rockies!
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MaggieGirl135 wrote: »slimgirljo15 wrote: »It's a little known fact but calories are actually afraid of heights. Therefore if you put your food up high like on top of the fridge or top of the cupboard, calories will not inhabit them... too afraid.
I had no idea! Whoo-hoo!!! Sweet!!! ...living close to 8,000’ in the Rockies!
Sorry Maggie, it's above ground level, not above sea level.
That is, if the calories are high enough you can't reach them, they don't count!
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DavWillTry wrote: »MaggieGirl135 wrote: »slimgirljo15 wrote: »It's a little known fact but calories are actually afraid of heights. Therefore if you put your food up high like on top of the fridge or top of the cupboard, calories will not inhabit them... too afraid.
I had no idea! Whoo-hoo!!! Sweet!!! ...living close to 8,000’ in the Rockies!
Sorry Maggie, it's above ground level, not above sea level.
That is, if the calories are high enough you can't reach them, they don't count!
There are no words for the quiet desperation I am now feeling...3 -
calories do not count on Fridays
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TGIF!!! 😁0
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Happy POETS day!0
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pancakerunner wrote: »calories do not count on Fridays
Or any day between 12:00 a.m. and 12:00 p.m.
Or if nobody sees you eat it.
I wish.
Somehow all these nonexistent calories found their way into my scale since October. Can I do a 'clear cache' and purge them back out?3 -
HeidiCooksSupper wrote: »You mean the calories don't fall out of a cookie when you break it in half? Bummer.
Broken cookies and crackers and chips have no calories.
Period.
And if they fall on the floor, but pick them up and eat them within 3 seconds, you can half the calories again.1 -
Just to add - eating food whilst wearing your baggiest sweatpants, halves the calories whilst eating in your tightest skinny jeans, doubles them.
Fact.3 -
pancakerunner wrote: »calories do not count on Fridays
Or any day between 12:00 a.m. and 12:00 p.m.
Or if nobody sees you eat it.
I wish.
Somehow all these nonexistent calories found their way into my scale since October. Can I do a 'clear cache' and purge them back out?
Actually, this one is true! Since there isn't actually such a thing as 12:00 am or 12:00 pm. There's noon. There's midnight. AM is "ante meridiem" or "Before noon." And yes, PM is "post meridiem" or "after noon." This is why you will never see an airline flight scheduled for exactly 12:00. Nobody would know what time it really means. 11:59 am? Yes.
Sorry. Word geek here.2 -
pancakerunner wrote: »calories do not count on Fridays
Or any day between 12:00 a.m. and 12:00 p.m.
Or if nobody sees you eat it.
I wish.
Somehow all these nonexistent calories found their way into my scale since October. Can I do a 'clear cache' and purge them back out?
Actually, this one is true! Since there isn't actually such a thing as 12:00 am or 12:00 pm. There's noon. There's midnight. AM is "ante meridiem" or "Before noon." And yes, PM is "post meridiem" or "after noon." This is why you will never see an airline flight scheduled for exactly 12:00. Nobody would know what time it really means. 11:59 am? Yes.
Sorry. Word geek here.
Huh ya learn something new every day.
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pancakerunner wrote: »calories do not count on Fridays
Or any day between 12:00 a.m. and 12:00 p.m.
Or if nobody sees you eat it.
I wish.
Somehow all these nonexistent calories found their way into my scale since October. Can I do a 'clear cache' and purge them back out?
Actually, this one is true! Since there isn't actually such a thing as 12:00 am or 12:00 pm. There's noon. There's midnight. AM is "ante meridiem" or "Before noon." And yes, PM is "post meridiem" or "after noon." This is why you will never see an airline flight scheduled for exactly 12:00. Nobody would know what time it really means. 11:59 am? Yes.
Sorry. Word geek here.
I hope you don't mind me saying this but, in my neck of the woods, that is simply incorrect. For transportation and everything else "official", we don't use a 12 hour format like you do, we use a 24 hour one. So, a flight scheduled for noon would show up as 12h00, and one scheduled for, say, 2.30pm would show up as 14h30.
By the way, out of curiosity, I just checked one of our main airports, and it shows three flights departing tomorrow exactly at 12h (noon).
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GummiMundi wrote: »pancakerunner wrote: »calories do not count on Fridays
Or any day between 12:00 a.m. and 12:00 p.m.
Or if nobody sees you eat it.
I wish.
Somehow all these nonexistent calories found their way into my scale since October. Can I do a 'clear cache' and purge them back out?
Actually, this one is true! Since there isn't actually such a thing as 12:00 am or 12:00 pm. There's noon. There's midnight. AM is "ante meridiem" or "Before noon." And yes, PM is "post meridiem" or "after noon." This is why you will never see an airline flight scheduled for exactly 12:00. Nobody would know what time it really means. 11:59 am? Yes.
Sorry. Word geek here.
I hope you don't mind me saying this but, in my neck of the woods, that is simply incorrect. For transportation and everything else "official", we don't use a 12 hour format like you do, we use a 24 hour one. So, a flight scheduled for noon would show up as 12h00, and one scheduled for, say, 2.30pm would show up as 14h30.
By the way, out of curiosity, I just checked one of our main airports, and it shows three flights departing tomorrow exactly at 12h (noon).
I don't mind a bit. I use 24-hour format myself. It drives some of my friends crazy. It makes more sense to me. There's no chance of confusion. Because I've ~never~ set my alarm clock for the wrong time and overslept....
And I hope you don't mind ME saying THIS, but in your neck of the woods, there's still no such thing as 12:00 am or 12:00 pm. Midnight is 0:00 and noon is 12:00. I would embrace getting rid of AM and PM and going to 24 hour format.
And while we're at it, I would love it if we got rid of daylight saving time. It's evil.4 -
And while we're at it, I would love it if we got rid of daylight saving time. It's evil.
And further - why not also get rid of time zones. Why not have a single time across the world. What does it matter if in some places, you’re eating breakfast at 18h00? It doesn’t change when the sun rises and sets just because of what we call it.
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GummiMundi wrote: »pancakerunner wrote: »calories do not count on Fridays
Or any day between 12:00 a.m. and 12:00 p.m.
Or if nobody sees you eat it.
I wish.
Somehow all these nonexistent calories found their way into my scale since October. Can I do a 'clear cache' and purge them back out?
Actually, this one is true! Since there isn't actually such a thing as 12:00 am or 12:00 pm. There's noon. There's midnight. AM is "ante meridiem" or "Before noon." And yes, PM is "post meridiem" or "after noon." This is why you will never see an airline flight scheduled for exactly 12:00. Nobody would know what time it really means. 11:59 am? Yes.
Sorry. Word geek here.
I hope you don't mind me saying this but, in my neck of the woods, that is simply incorrect. For transportation and everything else "official", we don't use a 12 hour format like you do, we use a 24 hour one. So, a flight scheduled for noon would show up as 12h00, and one scheduled for, say, 2.30pm would show up as 14h30.
By the way, out of curiosity, I just checked one of our main airports, and it shows three flights departing tomorrow exactly at 12h (noon).
I don't mind a bit. I use 24-hour format myself. It drives some of my friends crazy. It makes more sense to me. There's no chance of confusion. Because I've ~never~ set my alarm clock for the wrong time and overslept....
And I hope you don't mind ME saying THIS, but in your neck of the woods, there's still no such thing as 12:00 am or 12:00 pm. Midnight is 0:00 and noon is 12:00. I would embrace getting rid of AM and PM and going to 24 hour format.
And while we're at it, I would love it if we got rid of daylight saving time. It's evil.
Yes! I couldn't agree more. I rant about it every single year (to no avail...).
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Calories don't count in the hour we reclaim when we switch back from Daylight Savings Time to Standard Time.
But I don't like to eat that late/early, so it won't help.0 -
yes that hour is officially non existent.
found that our when I used to work shift work - if you work night shift when daylights saving changes over you still get paid same amount eg 8 hours whether it was actually 7 hours or 9 hours.3
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