Recalculating II

I’ve decided to recalculate my calories now that I have lost twenty pounds. My new schedule is as follows: M-Th: 1400, F: 1600, Sa: 1700, Su: 1500 — a total of 500 calories less per week. Not a huge difference, but there’s a reason for that.

My choices were:

1. Eat less
2. Workout more

At the beginning of this journey, I decided that my mission was to get fit/healthy rather than to simply ‘lose weight’. To me, being thin doesn’t automatically equal fit/healthy. I’ve seen many, many, many thin people huff and puff their way up a flight of stairs! With that said, I chose to increase the intensity and length of my workouts rather than significantly decrease my caloric intake.

For the past few days, I’ve been working out to JM’s Fitness Ultimatum 2009 for forty-five minutes on ‘hard’. I returned the heart-rate monitor I purchased from Amazon, so I don’t have a means to accurately gauge my ‘calories burned’ at this time. According to the game, I am burning around 500 cals. Even if I shave 100 cals off that number, it’s still pretty good.

Afterward, I hop onto the elliptical for a twenty-five minute session. At the end of my twenty-five minutes, I’ve gone 2.5 miles, supposedly burned another ’300 calories’ (give or take), and want to die.

I grab a glass of water, chug it, and then hit the rower for an additional ten minute workout/cool-down. When I’m done, I do a few bicep curls and call it a night.

I’ve noticed that when I use the Wii Fit before the elliptical, I fly through my elliptical workout. It’s less of a struggle and it’s actually enjoyable. It’s the weirdest thing.

Anyhow. I need to get a heart-rate monitor. I want an awesome one, but not sure which to go with. The one I bought from Amazon had great reviews, but it was confusing, a pain in my ass, and cheap as hell. Too bad the Body Bugg is so damn expensive.