So far my exercise of choice to burn extra calories has been swimming and man, I am sore today! I think it's doing the trick, plus it's fun and refreshing... Everything that I have found online says that I should be burning between 600 and 650 calories an hour moderately swimming. What more could you ask for from an exercise that has such low impact.
I found a website that helps you calculate what calories you need in order to just live each day. You simply enter your weight, sex, height, and age and the calculator gives you a number of calories to maintain each day along with a breakdown of sorts. If these numbers are accurate... I must have been eating a horrific amount of calories daily to maintain the weight I am AND gain. This site is claiming I need to take in 3500 calories MORE than I burn in order to gain a pound. Yikes!
Daily Energy Expenditure Calculator
Calories Burned Estimator
On WW watchers I am not counting caleries per se... the calculcation includes protien, carbs, fat, and fiber... and since calories come from these things I am in a sense watching my caloric intake.
All that said... all that information googled... whether it's fact or fiction... I do know that the way I've been eating the last few weeks ain't bad at all and I don't feel like it has taken a huge amount of effort. It hasn't been hard, I just need to be conscious of what I am eating and when. I've had to take stock in my emotional/boredome eating... and make sure that I am not inhaling my food instead of savoring it.
Keep on keeping on....
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