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Originally Posted by Misora
So I'm really curious. How do you combine GWF or BoddyBugg with calorie counting? Do you aim for a specific deficit or a specific calorie count a day. For instance right now I eat 1500 calories a day more or less. If you ate 1500 calories then realized that you had a really hard working day and burned 2200 would you eat 200 more and the following day if you had a lazy day and only burned 1600 would you only eat 1100 so you kept the same deficient of 500 a day? Thank you!
Yep, that's exactly what I do! I use The Daily Plate to track my food, so every evening I upload my GWF data, take my total burn for the day (I estimate the last few hours of the day, it's easy cause I'm sitting or sleeping the whole time), and plug it into TDP as "manual exercise". That shows me my "net calories" for the day, which I try to keep at -1000 each day. Realistically it varies quite a bit, but that's my goal. Sometimes I upload the armband earlier in the day to get a sense of how I'm doing, since I don't have the external display wristband anymore (I lost mine, boo).
So I don't really have a target amount to eat each day. I can see from my spreadsheet that my average over the last 110 days has been 1,600 calories a day, but it depends entirely on how active I am. If I'm sitting on the couch all day, then I know it's going to be an 1,100 calorie day... if I go for a good run and then sit on the couch the rest of the day, it'll be about 1,400, and if I go for a good run and then putter around cleaning the house or walking around town the rest of the day, it might be 2,000. I like those days.
Last week I actually burned 3,400 calories in one day!! Good thing, too, cause I went to a beer festival that day!
I love being able to do that kind of thing. I didn't feel guilty about the beer or the junk food at all (omg, I ate doritoes!! wooooo!!) because I knew that all the running and walking I was doing that day would balance it out. Mmm, balance.
booskibabe , 05-14-2009 05:47 PM
