Today’s calorie intake: 1420
Calories burned through exercise: ???
Net calories: ???
Argh! I spent ten minutes on the elliptical machine (not much at all, I know, but all I was motivated to do, and at least it was a start) and I plugged it into the exercise diary at myfitnesspal.com – which calculated it at 162 calories burned, which seemed way high. So I went to caloriesperhour.com and calculated it there, and it gave me a total of 42 calories. The elliptical machine itself said 80 calories. I have no idea which to believe. Lol!
So I have gone and ordered this:
It won’t be here until next week so I’m stuck in limbo for a while more, but at least I’ll eventually be able to calculate my calories burned based on my body’s own performance and not some random average estimate. I really want to get the science of this down so I’m not eating too much or too little. Hopefully this becomes an invaluable tool for me and not something that gathers dust, lol! But I’m hopeful that being able to see my calorie burn on my wrist as I work out will be motivating; I can see myself hopefully setting goals to meet X amount of calories or beat yesterday’s total or whatever and I think that will be good for me. I’m really looking forward to its arrival.
I had a hard time meeting my minimum calories today. I had a dentist appointment and came back feeling shaky and sick and had to force myself to eventually eat lunch. I wish I’d been able to get more exercise in – but – given how I’ve felt today, I think I’ve done pretty well overall. Not a bad start, at any rate.
EDIT: Wow, where did that second wind come from? I just spent 30 minutes on the treadmill at a pretty good (walking) intensity and I feel totally energized now. Again with the calorie confusion though; MFP gave me 205 calories when I logged it but the treadmill says 147 calories (although it’s not programmable so that’s for a generic person presumably at a healthy weight, not for *me* exactly). I don’t plan on eating those exercise calories tonight so I guess it doesn’t really matter, but gosh I’d love to KNOW!
MFP says I burned 367 calories today, without a whole lot of planning or effort; more than the 300 I figured I would have to burn in order to push my net calories down to 1200 if I aim to eat 1500 calories a day. So maybe this won’t be as hard as I thought it would be! I just hope that my heart rate monitor supports these calorie figures and doesn’t tell me I’m really burning some pathetically low number, lol!
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