Anne the Fab's Journal, 23 October 2021

👍👏👏👏 Go Anne Go!!! 

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Gramily, I can figure out distance and calories burned but don't know how to count the calories burned given heat and carrying/pushing weight. Central Florida here and the sun came OUT about halfway home. Ugh. Like being under a magnifying glass. Sunburned eyes n all. Big hat and sunglasses didn't help enough. 

perhaps you could mark it as hiking? most hikers carry a pretty heavy pack that could possibly account for the weight you were lugging around. just a thought. 

Oooo, good idea Mimi! Thank you for that. I don't eat more to cover calories burned so that part doesn't matter, more of a "how much DID I burn?" kinda thing ya know? 

Poop, hiking isn't viable but (apparently) I burned 1100+ just breathing wtf? 

Walking Fast (3 miles per hr) - that is how it is listed in the excercise portion. And yes - it requires a calorie deficit - just to sleep and breath air. It takes calories to run the body - So the calorie deficit = weight loss ---- but with only taking in 900 calories - the energy to run the body would deplete those calories and extra.....forcing the body to use up stores of fat. There are 3,500 calories in one pound of body fat --- so a person needs a calorie deficit of 3,500 in order to lose one pound of body fat. 

That is the way that weight loss is figured ... It cannot be explained in one sentence. 

Jergens123 I knew, but blanked out on, that little factoid. However, by that logic/Fact, I should be skeletal. I'm not a fan of food. Love to cook, not so much on putting it in my face 3 times a day. Most foods are a textural issue, some are a taste and anything "diet" is more likely to put me in the hospital than anything else. I had my metabolism checked decades ago and was told I have "the metabolism of someone who's been dead for 6 months". Nice. Most days getting 1000 calories in is a strain. Eating is boring. 

It is a new way to look at food - It is a food plan for nutrition and vitamins required to have energy and a healthy body - not so much a "diet" - Anyway - regardless of your own personal food choices in your own food plan - if you have a daily calorie deficit - then the body will use the stores of fat and you will see that reflected on the weigh scale as weight loss. 

Jergens123 I've been looking at "food as fuel" for decades. I've weighed and measured and found what (physically) hurts to eat, textures and etc. My caloric intake hasn't varied by much in the last 6 months or so. Even excluding the calories to just exist, I exist at a deficit which should have kept me within normal parameters but doesn't seem to. I've not eaten a whole serving of anything in ages but still record whole serving calories. I used to eat 2000 or so a day, and weighed 340. Started eating only when I was actually hungry and dropped to 103. Ate strictly junk food and take out and weighed 130 for about 5 years. None of which makes ANYTHING like sense. 

I've found Google fit to be pretty accurate for tracking calories burned walking and sometimes biking (It auto senses 9/10 of my bike rides based on my mph). I use a Mii band for runs or other activities where I want to track via my heart rate but that doesn't sync as nicely with fatsecret.