10/20/10

Walks!

Why, oh why, do I discover how much I looooooove walking when it's about to get too cold and miserable to do anything but hide under the covers all day long everyday?!

Stats for 10/19:

  • total calories: 1486 - I did amazing today! I'm really proud of myself for getting right back on track. I did veer away from clean foods to indulge in a Taco Bell taco, but it didn't even taste good to me... so small chance of that happening again. The rest of the I did really well with my clean eating/avoiding processed sugars.
  • calories burned: 450 - I walked 2.9 miles with Keeley last night and it felt amazing! We kept a real quick pace the whole time, and took a hilly route to get the best workout out of it. I wish it wasn't raining today because I'd definitely like to go again, but it'll probably do me good to focus on weight training anyway.
  • 2 cigarettes
  • 11:30pm bedtime - I'm getting a little more consistent with my weekday bedtimes which definitely make a difference in my attitude and energy level.
  • $5 spent for lunch ($35 left for the week/$44 for the month)

I finally caught up on my shows last night - an episode of Boardwalk Empire and 2 weeks worth of Gray's Anatomy. It felt nice to just have a night at home. I feel like I've been running around all over the place lately, especially with James's birthday party... and then 3 MORE DAYS of birthday celebrations and get together's. Uggh. I've had enough birthday to last a lifetime, I feel like. 


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4 comments:

  1. AmelieRaeOctober 20, 2010 at 3:39 PM

    Great job, Jess!

    I was wondering - how are you calculating how many calories you burn on your workouts? I told you my heart rate monitor didn't seem very accurate when it came to calories, but now it's not even measuring my heart rate accurately, so I know it's way off.

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  2. JessOctober 20, 2010 at 7:12 PM

    I use MyPlate (http://www.livestrong.com/myplate/) to track my food calories and my fitness calories. I'm nore sure how spot-on it is, so I also sometimes check other calorie burn calculators online (here's a great one from UMD: http://www.healthcalculators.org/calculators/calories_burned.asp).. the calorie count for my walk last night, according to MyPlate, was probably a little high, but the route we took was almost all uphill except the last mile home.

    Hope that helps!

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  3. JessOctober 20, 2010 at 7:20 PM

    Here's another good one recommended by FamilyDoctor.org :)

    http://www.revolutionhealth.com/calculators/calories-burned

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  4. AmelieRaeOctober 20, 2010 at 9:18 PM

    Thanks!

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