Calories in envelope glue?

Calories? You are worried about calories?

Envelope glue is sweetish, and consequenty the cockroaches get into it at the factories where they make the envelopes. That's a far better reason for not licking it, IMO.
 
I have nothing substantive to add, except for this: Hey Ashles! I never seem to find your posts anymore! I'm glad you're here! Hooray! I really like reading what you say. I'll keep up on some of these threads to see. I thought you might have been purged or banned or suspended. I don't keep up a lot, so it's hard to find the good ones.
 
She'll probably lose any weight gained in bloodloss from the papercuts on her tongue, if she's at my level of competence.

Alternatively, if she is actually competent at licking envelopes, she could cut her fingernails to lose those pesky micrograms.
 
Geek Goddess said:
You'd have to eat 3500 calories OVER your metabolic requirements to gain a pound.
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Unfortunately that means that you'd have to eat 3500 calories UNDER your metabolic requirements to lose a pound. Which is why I never seem to lose as much weight as I feel like I should after eating a little bit better for a day or two. ("but I had chicken caesar salad for lunch AND dinner! Why aren't my pants noticeably looser?")
 
BPScooter said:
I have nothing substantive to add, except for this: Hey Ashles! I never seem to find your posts anymore! I'm glad you're here! Hooray! I really like reading what you say. I'll keep up on some of these threads to see. I thought you might have been purged or banned or suspended. I don't keep up a lot, so it's hard to find the good ones.
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That's very kind. I don't get in here nearly as often as I'd like these days as a result of my managers now expecting me to add to my already hectic schedule some form of 'work'.

Needless to say they are all now on my 'list'.
 
0oTITANo0 said:
Just as a friendly FYI, fasting does in fact cause a weight gain effect. Starvation induces your body to break down muscle to reduce metabolic demand for calories. So, your body keeps the fat in reserve against the day when you really cannot afford to lose any more muscle mass. So, while you are not eating of course you are going to lose a few pounds, but unless you have no access to food instinct will eventually drive you to binge and eat a ton of calories and pack on some fat. Unfortunately the weight you lost was muscle not fat, so you look and feel fatter than you did before you were starving. This is the 'yo-yo' effect of starvation dieting. This is probably why you see overweight breatharians. They do not eat on regular schedules and spend long periods of time in starvation causing their bodies to pack on the fat and give up the muscle.
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But this isn't weight gain. Your body will redistibute it's mass, but without putting anything in it won't get any heavier.
 
Glue?

Ashles said:
I have just been told by someone that they don't lick envelopes because of the calories in the glue.

Does anyone know if envelope glue has any calorific value and what kind of amount?

I must admit I am bizarrely fascinated by this question, and I don't quite know why.
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Cockroaches and silverfish love the glue on envelopes and postage stamps, and I remember having a temp job (when I was working my way through school) where I literally had to stuff thousands upon thousands of those f---king things--to the point where I was dreaming about them at night.

We never licked the envelopes because of the disgusting silverfish, but it seems theoretically possible that one could gain weight from licking them in those numbers if envelope glue keeps insects alive.*

I imagine that if one had to lick many envelopes on the scale of my temp job, all you'd have to do is climb maybe one extra flight of stairs per day.
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* NOTE: This may be fallacious reasoning. Termites get calories from cellulose, but people can't. I imagine its possible that the glue may have caloric value to insects but not people. This is an interesting question.
 
Kevin Levites said:
Cockroaches and silverfish love the glue on envelopes and postage stamps, and I remember having a temp job (when I was working my way through school) where I literally had to stuff thousands upon thousands of those f---king things--to the point where I was dreaming about them at night.

We never licked the envelopes because of the disgusting silverfish, but it seems theoretically possible that one could gain weight from licking them in those numbers if envelope glue keeps insects alive.*

I imagine that if one had to lick many envelopes on the scale of my temp job, all you'd have to do is climb maybe one extra flight of stairs per day.
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* NOTE: This may be fallacious reasoning. Termites get calories from cellulose, but people can't. I imagine its possible that the glue may have caloric value to insects but not people. This is an interesting question.
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We have silverfish in our house. We see them mostly in the winter. A pest expert thought it was very odd because silverfish prefer older houses. Our house in only 6 years old.

I never noticed them hanging around our envelopes, but now that I read your post, maybe I'll leave a few of them in the bathroom. That's were we usually see them.
 
toddjh said:
I'm always surprised by the number of people who think they can get ten pounds from eating 3 ounces of something. :)
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Well, if I consumed 3 fluid ounces of gold, I'd gain 3.77 pounds according to my calculations. I'd also be worth about $32,500 (US)...assuming I'm worthless to start with... Still, it's less than 10 pounds...maybe if I consumed something like Ununbium...eh, maybe not.
 
Rassilon said:
Well, if I consumed 3 fluid ounces of gold, I'd gain 3.77 pounds according to my calculations. I'd also be worth about $32,500 (US)...assuming I'm worthless to start with... Still, it's less than 10 pounds...maybe if I consumed something like Ununbium...eh, maybe not.
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3 FLUID ounces? :eek: Well, OK, as long as it is not molten...... :D ;)
 
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