doctorwalrus

Well, when I was a student, a friend and I once drank a bottle of Jim Beam (straight) and 24 stubbies of Heineken in an evening. That's 2400 kcal or thereabouts. Liver damage notwithstanding, no diet could survive that! The truth is, keep it sensible, try to count. If it's a lot, it's not okay, if it's a few, it's fine!

It's fine, but in moderation. How many vodka and cokes are we talking about though?

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Sorry, but I don't agree, this is quite different from the waitress described - I know people who do that sort of work, and they easily would be burning off 1000+ calories a shift. A 4.5k walk isn't going to come near that edit- replied before your followup post! I'd still suggest going with sedentary and logging the walks…

I have a coworker who is dieting but hates exercise. I don't think he realises how many of these bad boys he could be having http://www.chocablog.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/07/kitkat2.jpg

There's a straightforward way of logging this - mark yourself as sedentary and log each walk as exercise. I'm in a similar situation - by logging the walking as exercise it encourages you to ramp it up - getting to averaging 8km per day, 7 days a week, I realised I just had more energy to burn off, so it was a great…

Cheers - yeah exercise and cold air are the only triggers (they go together this time of year), so running from a low level of fitness is agonising, but I'm just knuckling down and getting on with it. Evening meals are way healthier than they look, mostly vegetables, and lean meat. I am probably going to have to try to cut…