Changing it Up
Okay, up to now I’ve been posting my exercise and food and such, but I’ve decided I really like what they’ve got set up at calorie-count.com. They calculate everything for you, including the food you eat and your daily calorie expenditure. Supposedly, it takes 3500 calories to make one pound of fat, so if one eats 500 fewer calories than one burns every day, one could loose a pound a week. So, instead, here I’ll be listing my calorie intake totals, calorie expenditure totals, and amount of extra calories burned. So… day one of the new routine…
Calorie intake: 1762
Calories burned:1913
Total Deficit: 151
Tuesday
Exercise:
20 minutes Pilates
Food:
Toast & Jelly: 240
Rooibos tea w/ cream & sugar: 40
Don Jose’s: 900
•Chimichanga
•chips & salsa
(but i’m not sure on the calorie count. it’s a rough guess)
Total cal intake: 1180
Monday
Exercise:
20 minutes Pilates
Food:
Tuna sandwich & baked hot Cheetoes: 510
Olive Garden: 1980
•3 Breadsticks
•Salad
•Chicken Parmigiana
Total cal intake: 2490
Sunday
Exercise:
None
Food:
Breakfast:
•Pancakes: 330
•Syrup: 210
•Hashbrowns (oil & ketchup): 262
•2 eggs: 202
•1/2 a banana: 70
•tea w/ cream & sugar: 25
apple: 72
Papa John’s pizza (2 slices): 620
4 bread sticks: 600
2 sides ranch dressing: 260
lightly sweetened iced tea: 10
Total cal intake: 2661
*whew* Ok, just to reiterate, I’m not YET on a diet, but am trying to find an average in my normal calorie intake so I know how much to go down. Today? Yeah, it was pretty bad ^^U And might I mention that breakfast was homemade, not restaurant, so I thought I would’ve have saved a bit there, calorie-wise @_@ It’s amazing how all of this looks when you’re actually keeping track. Normally, I would’ve figured what I ate today wasn’t TOO bad… At the very least, this experience has been educating. As you can see I don’t normally eat breakfasts like the one today, and I guess that’s for the better.
This week I need to work on drinking more water daily. And I bought some green tea extract (non-dietary stuff, just from the vitamin section), so we’ll see how that goes.
I’m starting to notice a trend: the days I eat out are the days I bring in more calories.
Saturday
Exercise:
None
Food:
Toast & Jelly: 240
Thai tea w/ cream & sugar: 25
Spaghetti and veggie sauce with 2 pieces of garlic toast: 830
Bailey’s & Root Beer: 130
Total cal intake: 1225
(although, it maybe be closer to 1250, because I may have messed up on the tea calories and Bailey’s serving size. I didn’t really measure @_@)
Friday
Exercise:
45 minutes Pilates
Food:
Toast & Jelly: 240
Coffee w/ cream & sugar: 70
Tuna sandwich & Cheetoes: 570
Mac ‘N Cheese: 380
Total cal intake: 1260
Calorie-Count.com
So, I found the above site and did a little thing that estimates how many calories I burn a day just by doing regular, human things. It put me at 1800, add the pilates to that and it’s about 1880, so I need to eat fewer calories than that for weight loss. Randomly, I’ve actually been staying below 1800 for the past couple days, and I’m not even really dieting right now — I’m just figuring up what the heck I’m eating. Since another site said I probably need about 1600 for weight maintenance, I’m thinking a 1400-1500 calorie per day diet might be beneficial. I won’t be denying myself, per se, but I’ll just be watching how much of what I eat, when I eat it.
For me, right now, the trick is keeping myself from snacking. Right now there’s nothing in the apartment to snack on, but an hour or two after dinner I feel the munchies rise up. I’ve been good about squelching them, but I know they’ll get the best of me eventually. We need to go shopping this weekend, so I wanna get carrots and apples. I wanna get fruits and veggies, but I’m so hesitant to spend the money on them because they normally go bad before we get to them. I don’t like perishables @_@ But its to my advantage that Tiara’s a vegetarian and so I basically eat as such. Veggie food is so much healthier ^^
But all this calorie stuff makes me wonder… I’m not doing much different with my diet right now than I have for a while… so why have I been gaining weight? Is it the lack of exercise? Or maybe there were little things here and there I would eat and think insignificant, but now that I’m logging everything it’s lower cuz I’m NOT having all those little “insignificant” things?
We shall see…
Thursday
Update for today’s goings-on:
Exercise:
20 minutes Pilates
Food:
White toast & Jelly: 240
Special K Bar: 90
Dinner at Islands (teriyaki chicken sandwich & cheese fries): 1200
Total cal intake: 1530
First Post
For right now I think this might be a weight-loss journal. I have another journal that I use regularly, but I kinda like wordpress. Maybe I’ll move over later on — you never know!
I just started Winsor Pilates this week and have started keeping track of how many calories I eat. I’m not dieting yet, I’m just trying to see where I am exactly and what I might need to do to improve. Once I get a tape measure I want to start weekly measurements, so hopefully that’ll go up this weekend. I’m not worried so much about poundage, but more about actual size, so I won’t be measuring my success (or not) with a scale. I’m also looking at keeping my calorie intake around 1600 a day or lower. I’m 5′1” and about 160, give or take five pounds. A size 14 is starting to get tight on me, and I ideally want to get back down to a size 10. I think I looked pretty good then, and I know I FELT good. I’m not asking for too much 
So far this week:
Sunday: Basics & 20 minute workout
Monday: 20 minute workout
Tuesday: 20 minute workout. 1840 cal intake.
Wednesday: 20 minute workout, 20 minutes on the treadmil. 1635 cal intake.
