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The baptism went very well, Mikayla was on her best behaviour.   Luckily she’s at a stage where she likes to look around and take everything in.  There were times where I could have sworn she was actually listening to the Deacon who performed the baptism. :)  

 I hope the picture shows up so you can see how beautiful she looked in her dress.  I’ll try uploading one that has Kama in the background, so you can see how beautiful she looked in her suit.     

There was tons of food, leftovers of lots and instead of leaving them around the house, I am bringing a huge platter to work with brownies and wraps on it!   I’m with Kama, I’m so full I feel sick!  Thank God tomorrow’s monday…  back OP tomorrow!

It was so great having my cousin here to share in the day with us.  It was a very good day!

A quick question to all the experts on buddyslim… how do you calculate, on your own, how many calories you’ve burned while excercising?

I’ve seen things, pre-recorded excercise logs that always seem to base the calories burned on if you are a 154 lb woman. I am no where near that weight, and feel maybe I burn more that these suggest.

Anyone know a calcuation?

Thanks for your help!!

Yes!!  Me!  I ran today!!  I did my cardio/weights interval today at the fitness center at work today, and I managed to run for 2 minutes flat out at a speed of 5 on the treadmill!!  Now I know for some of you “pro’s” out there, that may not be very fast, but for me…. HOLY COW is all I can say!  I was ready to stop about 1:30mins in to it, but pushed myself to do that extra :30 seconds!  WOW!! 

 The next round when I got on I lowered it to 4.5 and ran for 1:30, then brought it down to 3.8 for a fast walk for another minute…  I kept it at 3.8 for the rest of the intervals, then did about 5 mins of just the fast walking at 3.8..  then I decided to do the rest of the cardio on the bike.  I did 15 minutes there with the intensity at 3.

 Yesterday I hate around 1470 calories, that’s including work out deficit.  Today I will probably eat about the same. 

And Nancy, the tribal challenge?  The Peanut didn’t go to bed last night until after 8:30 so I didn’t get to try it BUT this morning during the intervals I did get 5 girl push ups in!!   Again I will aim for the challenge tonight, but will depend on the Peanut!!

I put my pants on today and they fit the same around the waist..  but as i was walking around getting my coffee and cupof milk and water for the day I noticed they were drooping in the crotch area!!  That should mean my lower belly’s getting smaller, right?  Whoohooo!!

Feeling great and ready for the day!! Bring it on!!

OK, so I have ‘maintianed’ the last 2 weeks..  NO MORE!  I read a blog comment yesterday where to find the amount of calories you should eat you multiply your goal weight, so for me 130 by 13 if you excersise on average 30 minutes per day.  For me that’s 1690.  If you excercise 60 minutes you multiply it by 15 so 1950.  I have been eating around 1200.  What I don’t know is, does this mean how much you eat, or how much you eat minus your workout calories.  So if say on Wednesdays when I do a workout at home, anywhere from 30-45 minutes of WATP and then have Zumba at night for an hour, where I tend to burn between 700 and 800 calories, do I need to then eat 2410 calories so that the deficit is the 1690, or do I just eat the 1690, have the deficit and end up with total calories for the day being 970?

You all know I’m a big advocate of livestrong.  That site has told me I need to eat 1198.  Now when you add your food for the day it adds up your calories, then when you add your work outs it subtracts those.  It keeps a total at the top that tells you, you can still eat 300 more calories today, or you’ve exceeded your calories by 50…  should I just keep to doing that? or do you think I need to totally up my calories?  Advice any and all?

I am also planning on going back to the fitness center at work on Tuesdays and Thursdays and do more weights and try to start building up my running/jogging endurance.  After all, Kama and I told Debbie we’d run in a marathon with her here in Phx in January!  Please let me know what you think!!

Debbie, I feel I am headed down your path in regards to the baby changing sleep patterns.  Normally, Mikayla will fall asleep about 7:15 and will sleep through till between 1 and 3am.  I get up, feed her, and 1/2 hour later we’re both back to sleep.  Then she stays asleep till between 5 and 6, when Chris gets up with her.  I have been getting up about 4:15am so I can work out.  Well last night, Mikayla thought it’d be fun to change that.  She woke up at 11pm!!!  Then, didn’t want to go back to sleep right away, so we were up till 12.  UG!  I had already decided I was going to sleep in a bit today and not get up till 5:15am…   well guess what???  Mikayla thought I should still get up at 4:15, but stay up with her.  Fed her and she didn’t want to go back to sleep again.  So we came out to the living room.  Chris tried to slink off to bed (the man sleeps on the floor in the living room until I get up, says I hog the bed - total BS mind you!!) and I told him he couldn’t because the baby was up and I still needed to have breakfast. 

I think I skipped the part that made me want to cry.  I weighed myself.  Yep, that’s what did it.  Last week I was 202.0.  Today?  202.4!!!  WHAT?!?!?!?  How could I have gained???   Oh yeah, I know…. my tribe knows…   Cake.  Yep, cake.  I ate cake.  I told them about the baby shower cake I had on Tuesday.  I think I neglected to tell them about the 2 pieces I had Wednesday, though maybe I mentioned 1 piece to them.  I had forgotten to bring in my cottage cheese in order to have my oatmeal on Wednesday..  so instead of having plain oatmeal, which would have been an all around better choice, I had a 2nd piece of cake.  Believe it or not, it wasn’t chocolate cake, just white cake.  But it was yummy.  Anyway - not the point here.  I spent all day Wednesday being hungry because of the empty calories in the cake.  I didn’t pig out the rest of the day, but just felt really hungry. 

Yesterday I remembered to bring my cottage cheese, so I had my good breakfast, my am snack of oatmeal and cottage cheese, my turkey wrap for lunch with salad and was doing good.  I did about 2.5 WATP miles in the am, so thought I was doing good.  Then I get an email “Thanks for the birthday greetings, come eat Hershey’s Kisses and cake”  So instead of going over and telling the lovely girl happy birthday and walking away with 1 kiss to soothe the chocolate beast, I grab 2 kisses… and a piece of cake :(  Yep, you guessed…it was chocolate cake!  Now the piece was small and from the middle so not a ton of frosting, but still……   no wonder the scale was not nice to me.  Still makes me feel like crying.   So total, this week alone, is 4 pieces of cake!!! 

This morning I got out my notebook and my measuring cups (thanks Kama).  I wrote down everything I put into my breakfast - eggs, cheese, milk, taco sauce, cheerios…  measured it all out and added up the calories manually.  390.  Not bad.   I will do the same making my lunch today.  I will write down everything that goes into my wrap, and throughout the day I will write down every tiny bit that goes in my mouth.

For excercise next week, I think I will get my a$$ out of the house on Tuesday and Thursday and go to the gym at work - hit the treadmill, and try to start jogging then running.  I need to amp up my work outs, but I don’t have the extra time to do what I want/need to do!  Once I get home from work, Chris hands off the baby to me and she’s glued to me till she goes to bed.  Once she goes to bed I’m so exhausted I can’t even drum up the energy to brush my teeth half the time!  So I need to amp them up in the morning some how……   Well here’s to a better week!

Catrina, I hope you had better luck getting below that 200lb mark than I did!!

I log all my food onto livestrong.com (most of you have probably had a comment from me here or there about using this site for The Daily Plate)  Great site and I love it!  Anyway… today at lunch I go in and put all that I’ve eaten so far, and what I have planned for dinner and afternoon snack, plus my 45 minute/3 mile WATP excercise.  Well guess what?  I was almost exact!  I had 5 calories left at te end of the day!  Great!!  Right??   So what happens?  I go in the fridge in the break room to get my lunch…  and guess what’s starring me in the face?  The chocolate birthday cake from Friday!!!!  OH NO!!!!   I don’t even remember pulling the thing out of the fridge, cutting a piece…. and yep, you guessed it… I ate the darn thing!  Luckily (I guess) it wasn’t a huge piece, maybe 1 inch squared..  but I ate the stupid frosting too!!  And it had some kind of creamy filling…   UUGGGGGGGGG!!  Why do I keep doing this to myself???  My tribe is always supportive, but I need to get my mental head in the game more when it comes to food!  I can’t tell myself I’m banned from chocolate, cuz that’ll only make me want it more!  And I was doing so good yesterday.. was craving a candy bar..  Chris offered to go to 7-11 to get one and I told him no..  I got my skim milk out and made a glass of ovaltine.  That kicked the craving… but what the heck happened with the cake???   I have no idea how many calories were in that thing either!  &$^*#^@&*(^$@(#^(^*$#@^&*   Ok…  enough.  Back on track tomorrow… 3 miles tomorrow…  I’ll get this… I know I will………