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  • And then on Thursday, just as I was mixing Will's midmorning, high-calorie drink, I heard Mrs. Traynor's voice in the hall.†   (source)
  • In Luke's country, the Government began rationing food, only allowing people to have 1,500 calories a day.†   (source)
  • And how many calories do I spec them meringue thingies have?†   (source)
  • Thinking about fat and calories is actually a symptom of the problem, not a way to find a solution.†   (source)
  • "A hundred calories," she crows.†   (source)
  • He next shoved a frozen meat loaf, which was supposed to be low in calories, into the microwave.†   (source)
  • Not enough calories.†   (source)
  • With a nearly infinite supply of vitamins, all I need are calories of any kind to survive.†   (source)
  • This was the biggest party of the year, but she felt way off her game: Her dress felt snug around her hips, she hadn't been able to get Sean to crack a smile during the car ride over here—despite the fact that he'd scored his dad's BMW 760i for the night—and she was on her third calorie-laden vodka lemonade and it was only nine-thirty.†   (source)
  • Mmm …. hundreds of delicious calories per bite.†   (source)
  • When Wolf had dieticians analyze the typical Rosetan's eating habits, they found that a whopping 41 percent of their calories came from fat.†   (source)
  • His body was a machine, it needed food, needed calories, and for that to happen something had to die.†   (source)
  • For sure that's the direction the calorie count is going.†   (source)
  • Could her grandmother ever have imagined she would have a granddaughter like her—a woman who has a husband who loves her, two girls who adore her, a house she co-owns, dear friends, a life with only the usual worries about leaks and calories?†   (source)
  • It'll collect data on your heart rate, blood pressure, cholesterol, heat flux, caloric intake, sleep duration, sleep quality, digestive efficiency, on and on.†   (source)
  • These sodas provide empty calories and have replaced far more nutritious beverages in the American diet.†   (source)
  • The girls would gloat, but by now the idea of using even one calorie for oral communication is unthinkable.†   (source)
  • When you use auric energy, you burn as many calories as if you had run a marathon.†   (source)
  • There was a time when I had willpower, when I could run 10k before breakfast and subsist for weeks on thirteen hundred calories a day.†   (source)
  • Since our calories had been moderated all week long, last night at the Banquet we could eat everything in front of us without significant impact.†   (source)
  • Consider: for every one hundred calories of heat generated by exercise [speed] the body evaporates about six ounces of perspiration.†   (source)
  • No matter how many calories he devoured, he always burned more.†   (source)
  • She was fond of eating vegetables but people said the key was to have as many calories stashed away as possible, and so foods like vegetables, which were bulky for the amount of energy they could provide, and also prone to spoilage, were less useful.†   (source)
  • And I'm now screwing my caloric intake for the day with this drumstick."†   (source)
  • If you don't have time to eat, and there's no other food on the plane, a package of peanuts and Bloody Mary mix are six hundred calories."†   (source)
  • Marcia, like a lot of girls in the house, either saved her calories for cocktails later or made up for the extra cocktail calories from the night before.†   (source)
  • He probably burned about six million calories.†   (source)
  • Spent calories orbited, raising temperatures.†   (source)
  • Calories.†   (source)
  • Maybe Juliet Sykes is the only thing between me and an eternity of chocolate fountains and perfect love and guys who always call when they say they will and banana sundaes that actually help you burn calories.†   (source)
  • But despite my high-calorie diet, I was getting pretty competent at yoga, I was lifting eighty-pound bags of cement at work, and running at least thirty miles a week, so I wasn't getting fat.†   (source)
  • "Do you want to swim with the dolphins this afternoon—burn off the calories?" he asked.†   (source)
  • The device weighed only three and a half ounces and it showed the distance I ran and the calories I burned and even the length of the strides I took—clipped to the waistband of my trunks.†   (source)
  • "You cannot eat enough" is a BUD/S instructor's mantra; it's impossible to replace the calories burned on a daily basis.†   (source)
  • Burn off loads of calories and then return home to an energizing breakfast of oats and freshly squeezed orange juice.†   (source)
  • Let's see you go without anything to eat for three days, especially if you're a biological anomaly who needs three thousand calories a day minimum, and then someone presents you with a hot, smoky, charred piece of rat au jus.†   (source)
  • I didn't think I had five thousand of anything, except maybe daily calories.†   (source)
  • I knew they were extraneous, highly caloric, a waste of money.†   (source)
  • Calories and vitamins.†   (source)
  • Hey, if I don't get enough calories, I'm the one who's fainting.†   (source)
  • If there was a just and merciful God, Mr. McLean, then a dry martini would have a single calorie and a rye crisp would have four thousand.†   (source)
  • Frozen yogurt may be low in calories but not if you eat five tubs of it.†   (source)
  • Not living on eighteen hundred calories a day, I take it, which is the subject of that order he cited.†   (source)
  • He plucked a low-calorie rice treat from a bowl on the coffee table.†   (source)
  • His daughters would never have presented him with a copy of Calorie Counters, the 1-2-3 Way to an All-New You.†   (source)
  • There were no calories or vitamins in coffee and it was of no use to them.†   (source)
  • They began eating in silence, Fiedler very carefully, like a man who counted his calories.†   (source)
  • So I stayed where I could throw perfume on myself all day and drink ten thousand malts and eat candy without people saying, 'Oh, that's full of calories!'†   (source)
  • You leave with enough calories to take you to the next meal, no more, no less.†   (source)
  • "We were dying," wrote captive Jean Balch, "on about 500 calories a day."†   (source)
  • "Anything high calorie, but try not to take junk food," instructed Chuck.†   (source)
  • It is actually cheaper to eat high-calorie, fatty, processed foods than whole foods.†   (source)
  • Endless empty calories, but the digital-social equivalent.†   (source)
  • As people eat more meals outside the home, they consume more calories, less fiber, and more fat.†   (source)
  • I fix her a little something low-calorie to eat cause that's all Miss Leefolt let me give her.†   (source)
  • I'll get more calories out of it, and I need every calorie I can get my hands on.†   (source)
  • A "Large" Coke is thirty-two ounces — and about 310 calories.†   (source)
  • Human bodies were the last source of calories left in New York.†   (source)
  • It contained virtually no protein and was grossly lacking in nutritive value and calories.†   (source)
  • "He's already at a minimal calorie count.†   (source)
  • That means the source of those calories is not a potato farm but a field of corn or soybeans.†   (source)
  • It's the ultimate diet food -- food with no calories.†   (source)
  • Lauren needs two thousand calories, and the kids needed nearly as much.†   (source)
  • Super Size Fries have 610 calories and 29 grams of fat.†   (source)
  • Plus, I'd burned a ton of calories, and I wanted them back.†   (source)
  • Anyway, the calories would just be coming from Susie, and she was thin to begin with.†   (source)
  • My best bet for making calories is potatoes.†   (source)
  • The same dollar could only buy 250 calories of carrots and other whole vegetables.†   (source)
  • With my height and weight, if I'm willing to starve a little, I need 1500 calories per day.†   (source)
  • In a typical supermarket, one dollar could buy 1,200 calories of potato chips and cookies.†   (source)
  • I'll get more calories out of it, and I need every calorie I can get my hands on.†   (source)
  • Calories, like the calories in food, are units of energy.†   (source)
  • About 40 percent of their calories come directly from corn, mostly in the form of corn tortillas.†   (source)
  • I could reduce my caloric use by minimizing manual labor.†   (source)
  • They grow prolifically and have a reasonable caloric content (770 calories per kilogram).†   (source)
  • Where did all those cheap calories come from?†   (source)
  • Since 1977, an American's average daily intake of calories has jumped by more than 10 percent.†   (source)
  • Sugar has 4000 food-calories per kilogram.†   (source)
  • That's a grand total of 115,500 calories, a sustainable average of 288 calories per day.†   (source)
  • But a dollar will only buy you 170 calories of fruit juice from concentrate.†   (source)
  • At 150 calories each, I'll need to eat 10 per sol to survive.†   (source)
  • On the beverage aisle, you can buy 875 calories of soda for a dollar.†   (source)
  • I need to create 1100 calories per day with my farming efforts to survive until Ares 4 gets here.†   (source)
  • Since we aren't exercising more, the calories end up being stored away in fat cells in our bodies.†   (source)
  • They grow prolifically and have a reasonable caloric content (770 calories per kilogram).†   (source)
  • In fact, the majority of calories in the "healthy" salad come from corn.†   (source)
  • With my 62 square meters of farmland, I'll be able to create about 288 calories per day.†   (source)
  • It's given us cheap corn sweeteners and hundreds of extra calories a day.†   (source)
  • A one-pound box of pre-washed lettuce contains 80 calories of food energy.†   (source)
  • An awful lot of those extra corn calories are being eaten as high-fructose corn syrup.†   (source)
  • Yet half of the 500 calories in a large order of fries come from the oil they're fried in.†   (source)
  • You're supposed to put sour cream on top but that just seemed like calories up the kazoo.†   (source)
  • Maybe stress burns a lot of calories or something.†   (source)
  • I like to believe I burn up calories just thinking.†   (source)
  • I had another idea for burning calories.†   (source)
  • Even what little water and calories the body had taken in had to be eliminated.†   (source)
  • I guess stress does burn a lot of calories, after all.†   (source)
  • About a thousand calories later she said, "I told you I was a Free Woman.†   (source)
  • I'm also guessing that his super-healing consumes a lot of calories too.†   (source)
  • Prof, nobody here is living on eighteen hundred calories a day.†   (source)
  • So I leaned over and gave her a high-caloric kiss, with mayonnaise, and let her be.†   (source)
  • Hoping to stanch my decline, I resolved to rest, gobble ibuprofen, and force down as many calories as possible in that time.†   (source)
  • After subsisting for three months on an exceedingly marginal diet, McCandless had run up a sizable caloric deficit.†   (source)
  • Seven hundred calories.†   (source)
  • If I ordered additional food on my own, it would increase the amount of exercise I had to do each day, to offset my additional calorie intake.†   (source)
  • But it opened onto a roof terrace that looked out over the market and was, when the electricity had not gone out, bathed in the soft and shimmying glow of a large, animated neon sign that towered nearby in the service of a zero-calorie carbonated beverage.†   (source)
  • Later I might take him a drink of water, or one of the calorie-filled drinks that were supposed to keep his weight up and looked like pastel-colored wallpaper paste, or give him his food.†   (source)
  • You always had sufficient calories.†   (source)
  • You're not hungry, you don't need the food, it does nothing for you, but you keep eating these empty calories.†   (source)
  • I liked the tourists, who stopped on their walk up to and down from the castle, the shrieking schoolchildren, who stopped by after school, the regulars from the offices across the road, and Nina and Cherie, the hairdressers, who knew the calorie count of every single item the Buttered Bun had to offer.†   (source)
  • From then on, my computer monitored my vital signs and kept track of exactly how many calories I burned during the course of each day.†   (source)
  • The extremely low caloric intake and befouled food, coupled with the exertion of the forced exercise, put the men's lives in great danger.†   (source)
  • As I gulped it down, my computer's sensors silently took note, scanning the barcode and adding the calories to my total for the day.†   (source)
  • It'll measure BMI, caloric intake….†   (source)
  • Because officers weren't enslaved, they were allowed only half the ration given to slaves, on the justification that they needed fewer calories.†   (source)
  • She knew she was properly hydrated and that her caloric intake that day was within accepted norms for someone of her body-mass index.†   (source)
  • In 1978, the typical teenage boy in the United States drank about seven ounces of soda every day; today he drinks nearly three times that amount, deriving 9 percent of his daily caloric intake from soft drinks.†   (source)
  • Annie was refilling Mae's glass from a bottle of Riesling that, she said, was made on campus, some kind of new concoction that had fewer calories and more alcohol.†   (source)
  • Buoyed by the extra calories, he strengthened his legs, lifting his knees up and down as he walked the compound.†   (source)
  • It'd been five days since the relief stations had closed, pinching off the only reliable new stream of new calories for the other groups on our floor.†   (source)
  • I was allowing myself only a few hundred calories a day of food, but I'd read that Arctic explorers used up to six thousand calories a day in the cold.†   (source)
  • I was finding three or four bags per location, and with an average of about two thousand calories per bag, each location represented nearly a day's worth of food for our group on starvation rations.†   (source)
  • The Red Cross was allotting one food pack per person in line, about a day's supply of calories, and after three days the other groups on our floor—the group in the hallway, the ones with Rory, and the ones with Richard—had built up their supplies, surviving on starvation-level rations, where we'd nearly run out.†   (source)
  • I now have four hundred healthy potato plants, each one making lots of calorie-filled taters for my dining enjoyment.†   (source)
  • One food-calorie is 4184 Joules.†   (source)
  • So how many calories do I need to generate per day along the entire time period to stay alive for around 1425 days?†   (source)
  • Back then, the Naylor farm produced more than two calories of food energy for every calorie of fossil fuel energy invested.†   (source)
  • And with the 126 square meters of farmland (just over double the 62 square meters I now have) it works out to be over 850 calories per day.†   (source)
  • I could cut off an arm and eat it, gaining me valuable calories and reducing my overall caloric need.†   (source)
  • On the industrial farm, it takes about ten calories of fossil fuel energy to produce one calorie of food energy.†   (source)
  • Growing, chilling, washing, packaging, and transporting that box of organic salad to a plate on the East Coast takes more than 4,600 calories of fossil fuel energy, or 57 calories of fossil fuel energy for every calorie of food.†   (source)
  • I could cut off an arm and eat it, gaining me valuable calories and reducing my overall caloric need.†   (source)
  • Potatoes grow continually, so in those 76 days, I can grow another 22,000 calories of potatoes, which will tide me over for another 15 days.†   (source)
  • The government says it wants you to eat healthy, then it makes sure that the cheapest calories in the supermarket are the unhealthiest.†   (source)
  • The average person needs about 2,000 calories a day, but that number varies greatly depending on your age, size, and amount of exercise.†   (source)
  • I need 1500 calories every day.†   (source)
  • Corn-based food does offer cheap calories, if you don't count the billions the government spends to support cheap corn.†   (source)
  • I need to create calories.†   (source)
  • Since 1970, farmers in the United States have managed to produce 500 additional calories per person every day.†   (source)
  • I just need calories.†   (source)
  • EXTRA CALORIES Behind our epidemic of obesity lies this simple fact: When food is abundant and cheap, people will eat more of it.†   (source)
  • In the long run, however, these cheap calories come with a high price tag: obesity, Type II diabetes, heart disease.†   (source)
  • On the industrial farm, it takes about ten calories of fossil fuel energy to produce one calorie of food energy.†   (source)
  • That's because if you count the calories, foods loaded with sugar and fat are the cheapest foods in the market.†   (source)
  • They contain some vitamins, minerals, and some amino acids (the building blocks of protein) but few calories.†   (source)
  • Judith, Isaac, and I together consumed a total of 4,510 calories at our lunch, which is about two-thirds of what the three of us should eat in a day.†   (source)
  • These numbers show why people with limited money to spend on food spend it on the cheapest calories they can find.†   (source)
  • It makes even more sense when you realize that those cheap calories reward our instincts for fat and sugar.†   (source)
  • Where are those extra calories going?†   (source)
  • To grow and process those 4,510 food calories took at least ten times as many calories of fossil energy, something like 1.†   (source)
  • Back then, the Naylor farm produced more than two calories of food energy for every calorie of fossil fuel energy invested.†   (source)
  • Growing, chilling, washing, packaging, and transporting that box of organic salad to a plate on the East Coast takes more than 4,600 calories of fossil fuel energy, or 57 calories of fossil fuel energy for every calorie of food.†   (source)
  • The Wonder bread absorbed the acid like fire extinguisher foam and splattered against the hydra, covering it in a sticky, steaming laver of high-calorie poisonous goo.†   (source)
  • The thing is, Angel, with your metabolism, and how old you are now, you should be getting about three thousand calories a day.†   (source)
  • Maybe another small toot in the early P.M., just enough to limit dinner calories and still be able to sleep at night.†   (source)
  • Most jockeys took a more straightforward approach: the radical diet, consisting of six hundred calories a day.†   (source)
  • Despite the wine and rich food, breaking down into calories, I feel cold, way deep inside, and it's the kind of cold that can't be fought with Hollandaise or alcohol or a pile of quilts.†   (source)
  • I had a thing I clipped to the waistband of my running trunks, a device that weighed only three and a half ounces and had a readout showing distance traveled and calories burned and length of stride.†   (source)
  • It was incredible, and she'd made enough for a big crowd because she knew how hard it was for us to get enough calories.†   (source)
  • If there were truly a just and merciful God a banana split would have no calories and a bean sprout or a raw carrot would contain ten thousand calories.†   (source)
  • Leigh jumps up to pacify the baby while Heather goes to stick her finger down her throat and puke up the few calories that have managed to make it past her lips.†   (source)
  • We must order half the menu: tiny melt-in-your-mouth cheese puffs, thick slabs of pâté that probably have more calories than you're supposed to eat in a day, goat cheese salad and mussels in white wine and steak béarnaise and a whole sea bass with its head still attached and crème brillee and mousse au chocolat I think it's the best food I've ever tasted, and I eat until I can hardly breathe, and if I take one more bite I really will bust my dress.†   (source)
  • He had the plodding force of a fleshy ex-boxer who still has reserves of deep endurance, oil reserves, fossil fuel—he had calories to burn, sweat to yield in abundance.†   (source)
  • I can invest a few calories.†   (source)
  • We also boasted of food—adult consumption over four thousand calories per day, high in protein, low in cost, no rationing.†   (source)
  • Did your brainy friends tell you what happens when you release a few billion calories in a split second all at one spot?†   (source)
  • They were mostly a lot of calories under gray suits, a lot of talk behind bright ties, and a lot of coarse laughter.†   (source)
  • This consisted in digging out a quarter-kilo brick of field ration, eleven hundred calories of yeast protein, fat, starch, and glucose, plus trace requirements.†   (source)
  • Randy guessed that he managed to consume almost fifteen hundred calories each day in fish and fruit alone.†   (source)
  • The Germans, in their years of methodical madness, had discovered in their concentration camps that when a man's diet fell below fifteen hundred calories his desire and capacity for all emotions dwindled.†   (source)
  • They stand around and literally warm themselves at the calories of virtue he gives off.†   (source)
  • It was clear that the action of the caloric had been imperfect or unequal.†   (source)
  • He remarked, "Is it your combobulatory concept that we might now feed the old faces?" or "How about ingurgitating a few calories?"†   (source)
  • By this time, Clyde, having acclimated himself to this caloric atmosphere, was by no means as dubious as he was at first.†   (source)
  • Just as a cooling pot gives off heat, so all through youth and adolescence we give off calories of virtue.†   (source)
  • Q.—All your calories gone?†   (source)
  • Let us add the following: in the bourgeoisie, honored situations decay through too easy relations; one must beware whom one admits; in the same way that there is a loss of caloric in the vicinity of those who are cold, there is a diminution of consideration in the approach of despised persons.†   (source)
  • Stimulate the caloric.†   (source)
  • Dietary: concerning the respective percentage of protein and caloric energy in bacon, salt ling and butter, the absence of the former in the lastnamed and the abundance of the latter in the firstnamed.†   (source)
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