Exercise-wise, I've been having a really good week. I have been exercising on and off for a while now, but made some decisions that somewhat force me to exercise daily.
I love bagels. I mean, love them. There's something about stopping on my way into work in the morning and getting myself a toasted bagel with cream cheese ON it that really just makes my day (You have to specify on, otherwise, Dunkin Donuts will just drop a container of cream cheese into a bag and call it a day). As soon as I get in the car in the morning, my mind is already eating a bagel. Well, for those of you who don't know, a sesame seed bagel is 350 calories and the cream cheese to go with it is 130 calories. That's 480 calories on breakfast ALONE! Never mind if you get a coffee to go with it!
Well, I made the decision on Sunday that I will allow myself to have a bagel ONLY if I exercise. It's a reasonable trade-off, right? It's been going well so far. I have gone so far as to wear the gym clothes I would never normally wear just so that I can get to the gym. All so that I can eat a bagel in the morning.
My workouts for this week have been boring so far. I've been mainly concentrating on jogging and biking, so I'm either on the treadmill, the elliptical, or the bike.
Here we go:
Monday:
Elliptical Trainer 33 minutes 428 calories
Biking (12-14 mph) 12 minutes 165 calories
593 Total Calories Burned
Tuesday:
Jogging 5 mph 15 minutes 206 calories
Walking 3.5 mph 20 minutes 130 calories
Biking (14-16 mph) 10 minutes 171 calories
(I did run walk intervals)
507 Total Calories Burned
Wednesday:
Jogging 5 mph 15 minutes 206 calories
Walking 3.5 mph 20 minutes 130 calories
Biking (12-14 mph) 10 minutes 137 calories
(I did run walk intervals)
473 Total Calories Burned
Thursday:
Elliptical Training 33 minutes 430 calories
Biking (14-16 mph) 12 minutes 204 calories
634 Total Calories Burned
One of the other decisions I made (just today I made the decision), is to not eat ALL of the exercise calories like I originally have been doing. I decided that I would put the total amount of calories Burned in the NOTES section of MFP and put a slightly reduced number in the actual area where it counts as calories earned. This way I can account for some of the error in calculating any of the exercises.
What do you think?
This might be way out of line, but can I ask how you're calculating your calories burned? Are you using the monitor on the machine? If so, be forewarned that those numbers can be WAY off sometimes. A heart rate monitor is a great way to accurately see how many calories you're burning during a workout, and you might be able to judge your calorie in/out put a bit easier!
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