Thursday, February 25, 2010

2/25 Food and Exercise

It is 7:15 and although it is possible I may eat more tonight I am going to try not to.  I will drink more water though.  So for breakfast I had raisen brand and lowfat milk (190 and 110 calories), for lunch PB&J and 1/2  a banana (240 and 52 calories), snack: popcorn with cayenne pepper (110 calories ) and dinner: barbaque beef sandwhich, tater tots and mixed vegetables (514, 170, and 40 calories) (total calories= 1426).  I drank 8 (8 oz) glasses of water.  My exercise today was walking/jogging my son to the park and back.  For 34.5 mintues (me making sure the heart moniter worked and walking to the park) my heart rate averaged 113 beats per mintue on the way home for 18.5 minutes my heart rate averaged 138 beats per minute.  Oh I guess I didn't mention this before I have a heart condition and my doctor said I shouldn't allow my heart rate to exceed 160 beats per minute for too long thus the heart rate moniter.  So I found a website that calulates how many calories you need to eat to maintain your body weight and the theory is if you eat 500 calories less than that in a day you will lose a pound a week add exercising to that you could lose more (lets see how it goes you have to remember the thyroid could be hindering me too).  Oh yeah the websites: http://www.caloriecontrol.org/healthy-weight-tool-kit/weight-maintenance-calculator-women

and http://www.caloriecontrol.org/healthy-weight-tool-kit/lighten-up-and-get-moving. The second one calculates calories burn while doing everything almost from watching t.v. to aerobics.  So my caculations are 1907.1 calories to maintain minus 500 means I want to keep my daily intake to about 1407 calories, So horray for me day 1 a success.  My exercising should have helped used up an extra 342 calories. Now if I can repeat this process consectutively I'll have it made right?

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