It’s all in the math
Me: How many hours are in a week?
Bret: What? Why?
Me: I’m trying to figure something out. What’s 7 times 24?
Bret (launching into some weird convoluted way of calculating in his head): Seven times four is 28. Now you take that 8 and set it off to the side for now. Seven times two ?
Me: What? What the hell kind of way to do math is that? 24 times 7 would be 175 minus 7 ?
Both (simultaneously): 168!
Me: OK, so what’s 10% of 168?
Bret: 16.8. What the fuck are you trying to figure out, babe?
Me: Well, that diet-book author says if you are faithful to the program 90% of the time, the other 10% won’t hurt you …
Bret: So?
Me: So according to that, I should be able to eat anything I want for 16.8 hours out of every week and still lose weight.
Bret: WHAT?!?! That’s ridiculous! And you can’t include the hours you’re sleeping!
Me: Why not? If you’re asleep, you’re not being bad.
Bret: You’re not eating at all!
Me: Exactly!
Bret: NO, babe. You have to figure it based on your waking hours. You have to deduct 8 hours for every day.
Me: OK, so 16 hours a day. Then I should be able to eat anything I want for 1.6 hours out of every day.
Bret: Babe, do you realize how much food a person could eat in 1.6 hours?!?! You’d be blowing the entire day!
Me: Not according to the book.
Bret: That’s just so wrong.
[tags]Math, dieting, I hate math and dieting[/tags]
July 24th, 2007 at 4:10 pm
it really is so wrong.
and yet it feels right, doesn’t it? ;)
July 24th, 2007 at 7:08 pm
Uhhhh, tell Bret that I am on his side on this one!
Sorry ;)
July 24th, 2007 at 7:21 pm
Yeah, that book is totally screwed. What you NEED to do is calculate the amount of time you’re actually EATING. Then take 10% of THAT.
July 24th, 2007 at 7:45 pm
You guys are such spoilsports! :(
July 25th, 2007 at 10:37 am
Karl’s math makes sense, but I like the way you think. It could still work if you eat really fast. :)
July 25th, 2007 at 5:34 pm
Oh please, it’s all “street math”, people.
I’m not saying that I wouldn’t work the shit out of that plan but yanno…
July 25th, 2007 at 6:28 pm
I think he means that if 90% of what you EAT is good, healthy, low cal & fat food, then 10% of what you eat can be junk and it won’t offset the 90%. But 1.6 hours of eating ANYthing is gonna make you sick, isn’t it? Try eating chocolate cake steadily for over an hour and a half and you’ll be riding the barf bus, baby.
July 26th, 2007 at 7:37 am
Yeah, that actually what the book says. I just like to twist things to my own perspective!
July 26th, 2007 at 1:41 pm
I happen to like your math much better than any other kind of math. Now can you come up with an equation that gets me paid millions of dollars for sitting around watching movies?
July 27th, 2007 at 9:04 am
Okay, that proves it! You really are a blonde!