We have a beautiful countryside this morning, lots of white, fluffy snow! Yippee! I'm going to make this post short, ha ha!
Diva... 3 cheers for you! Wow, big loss (3.6). I bet you were smiling all day, all your hard work and exercise really paid off. About Fitday, I put one serving of Fiber One in my "Favorties" section and it's been registering my calories correctly all along. Then a few days ago it went Haywire for some reason, so I deleted it and entered it again into my custom, then favorites. It's working correctly again! I can see why you don't trust it. Have a "Healthy Eatting Day"!
Bobbi
Bobbi,
That is very weird that FitDay would do that. Another feature about FitDay is that it only keeps your list of foods under "Recently Used" for a short time... probably two weeks. And I swear I've "lost" some of my custom foods.
But I can't complain much... it's free!
Again, I commend you on how you reach out to people... in my book, you're the best thing this site has to offer!
Geeeeeez Diva, you make me blush! Thank you! About the Fitday, I thought it was a great tool when I first logged on. There was an option to buy the down load to get more benefits and tools and I purchased it. The custom list stays the same, it's never deleted unless I delete it myself. I also have the "Favorites" list, do you have that one? I'm not sure what you get for free, but the small amount I spent on the download was well worth it. (Except for the stupid underscored exercise list) I too have figured out what I actually burned and righted it in Fitday. The only trouble is the many different estimates you get. Do you know of a reliable site where I can give them my age, weight and then figure out the exact calories I burned?
Bobbi - I think to know a true count, you'd have to invest in a heart monitor. If you have a low heart rate while exercising, you'll burn less calories. Because I'm out of shape, unfortunately, my heart rate skyrockets and I burn calories a lot faster because my heart is working so much harder. Any formula you find online will only guess what your heartrate MIGHT be during those exercises. I've found they are completely inaccurate for me!
Bobbi- Two recommendations. 1) Try the website calories per hour dot com. It has TONS of exercises that you can enter custom info and get your estimated calories burned. 2) You can get a decent heart rate monitor for $60 or so, and it is (IMO) well worth it if you exercise even a little bit. It is FAR more accurate than any machine readouts or guesstimates.
Very light day for me, since I managed to resist the call of the salt monster and nothing else sounds good. 846 calories for the day. Not good for all the time, but a day here and there (especially after my blowout weekend) is acceptable.
481 calorie deficit for me today. I'm trying to keep it at 500+ but I didn't do a heck of a lot today as far as exercise.
Right after lunch today I had some emotional issues to deal with, with a friend, and I got very stressed out and upset. My first thought from the EVIL part of my brain was "go eat you'll feel better." I compromised with my EVIL side and decided to get a nonfat mocha from Starbucks instead. After I ordered it (the smallest one), I sat down to drink it - took about 4 sips, and threw the whole thing out. I guess that's bad for my wallet, but good for my waistline.
I'm happy about overcoming small things like this. Oh - and my "tight" size 14 jeans fit again, so it was a good day for me - even though the scale STILL reads EXACTLY the same amount it has for 3 weeks.
Oh - and my "tight" size 14 jeans fit again, so it was a good day for me - even though the scale STILL reads EXACTLY the same amount it has for 3 weeks.
Take the jeans fitting over what the scale says! Go you!
Smartbutt, glad you won out over your EVIL side, not an easy thing to do . Way to go on fitting into your jeans!!!!
AnabsoluteDiva - 643 calories - WEREN'T YOU STARVING!!!! and Julie - 846? Huh? What's up with those numbers?? My gosh. They are just every now and then numbers - right? Okay, good!
And Diva, you're daughter's a nutritionist - how cool! And congrats on the grandchild.
SlimLindy - Never mind the health benefits (ok hard to ignore), but that's one of the MAIN reason I LOVE my veggies - VOLUME. I like to eat a lot of food, obviously or I wouldn't be in this postion, and with veggies you really CAN eat a lot.
Had a decent day yesterday. Probably could have or should have exercised a bit more. But did manage to get some stuff in, actually a decent amount. Gosh, I'm NEVER satisfied with myself.
Hello everyone. I had a terrible day yesterday. I think that it was around 2200 calories. By far the highest I have had since Jan 1. And of course I wiegh myself this morning and I am up 1.4 lbs!! Which I know is beacuse of how much I ate yesterday, but come on I was low on Sunday!! I still got in my exercise and we did play out in the snow for like a hour. Anywise I am back at work today, so I know that I won't over eat. I think that I am going to start working out longer too, and doing some other things. I wish that there was a gym close to me that I could go to. But of course not when you live in the sticks, lol.
Alright I was wrong on my cal count, I added the wrong thing to fitday and then I thought I deleted it but it didn't delete so I just got it right. My calories are still high but not in the 2000. I figured it out to be 1764. Still too much. But today they will be on target again!!
As everyone else has said an HRM is your best bet for determining calories burned.
Robin
At 643 calories, I wasn't starving at all. I add wheat germ to everything anything I can these days (yogurt, oatmeal, etc.) and if I have a "big" day, those excess calories seem to last through a second day.
I had a HORRIBLE experience at the grocery store, although the outcome was good. I ran in to the store (kind of like a Walmart, except a little more upscale, sells clothes, home stuff, drugstore-type items, and full grocery section) to get a few whole foods supplies and some feminine hygeine products (DD just started her TOM today... major milestone for me to be a mom with DD at this point, but that's another post!). Anyway, I was a little hungry, since it was late afternoon, but I was armed with a list and was stickin' to it! So I grab some pads for DD... and RIGHT THERE was a HUGE display of CHOCOLATE! Not anywhere near the food section or anything food-like. Is that cruel, or what? Taunting women who are having their TOM with chocolate!! It was a double-whammy for me because it was two new, limited edition candy bars with toasted coconut (milk chocolate and toasted coconut are my ALL-TIME biggest weakness, and limited edition, as in, I can't get this next month or next year??!!). I very calmly read the nutritional info and put one of each in my cart. Then I proceeded to get my other groceries. But as I was walking through the store I began to kind of envision this sugar rushing into my bloodstream and the ensuing INSANE urges for MORE, MORE, MORE. I thought about how I would then want to eat every bread product in my house, how I would want peanut butter and cereal and on and on, how maybe it would be okay to take this one night off. As I stood in line there, I was so overwhelmed. Finally, at the last minute, through a truly supernatural intervention!, I gave the candy bars to the cashier and said I'd changed my mind. I drove home and was still famished. I quickly ate some fruit to hold me over as I got supper ready. After supper, I got OUT OF THE KITCHEN because the urge was still lingering.
Only now am I beginning to calm down. It was that hard. But I am SO GLAD I did not go there. So glad. WHew!
I know that they are just trying to make money (and I'm all for marketing and even capitalism, :-), but I think it is over the top to put a display of chocolate by the feminine hygeine products. Totally pouncing on any woman's weak moment.
I just re-read my post after posting it and got such a laugh. I had never, ever thought about how that type of mushroom has an 'unacceptable' swear word as the first four letters! Apparently when I posted it they bleeped those out! How cute!
I'm going to make this post short, 
ha ha!
. Way to go on fitting into your jeans!!!! 
Which I know is beacuse of how much I ate yesterday, but come on I was low on Sunday!! I still got in my exercise and we did play out in the snow for like a hour. Anywise I am back at work today, so I know that I won't over eat. I think that I am going to start working out longer too, and doing some other things. I wish that there was a gym close to me that I could go to. But of course not when you live in the sticks, lol. 
