learning to exhale

Since the only way to lose carbon weight after it's metabolized may be to send it out from your lungs as carbon dioxide, one might recast the problem of weight-balance in the simple maxim: Eat what you plan to breathe out, no less no more!

The various energies widget below might help one get calibrated on how much intake is needed for a given amount of exhalation.  For instance, if you plan to do fifty pushups then you probably should consume the 5 Calorie equivalent of a single m&m (plain not peanut).  Likewise what would be needed for 5000 steps of walking, or a quarter-mile run?

Getting in the habit of planning each day's respiration, and then ingesting the carbon-based energy needed to support that activity whether we are hungry or not, might thus be good habit to get into...