The Biggest Loser League

So here's something totally frustrating.  But I suspected it all along.  My exercise bike tells me I just burned 250 calories - using the 30 minute program getting my heart rate up in the 125-150 range for 20 minutes.

HOWEVER - Buddy tells me I only burned 80 calories.  Frak!  

I feel like the effort I'm putting in should be yeilding more.  Is it that my hypothyroidism is keeping my heart rate too low .. that my metabolism really does burn at a lower rate than normal people?

OR ... is it the Body Bugg is not functioning properly?

Who knows!  

i'll just keep plugging along to get my 2750 calories burned each day - and once I can do that dfor two weeks in a row I'll bump up my exercise intesity to burn 3,000 calories a day.

In an attempt to see how effective my new toy is ... I thought I'd keep a small journal for the first few days to see exactly which activities are burning the most calories.

TARGET BURN FOR THE DAY:  2750

TARGET CALORIES FOR THE DAY:  1500

TARGET DEFICIT FOR THE DAY:  1250

7:45am - slapped Buddy on - gave me 500 calories to estimate calories from midnight to now..

8:30am - 170 calories burned  - sitting at PC surfing interntet. Got up to make a quick breakfast, and then got up to let the dog inside.  Heading upstairs now to do the BL Strength Training DVD for 30 minutes plus 15 minute of PT on the knee.

9:30am - total burned for the BL Strength DVD plus PT = 104 calories.  Not as many as I had thought .. poo!  Total right now is 828 calories for the day.  Just short of 2,000 to go.  Ugh!

10:30am - total burned moving plants from "mud room" to back porch = 200 calories.  Woo!  That burned more than actual exercise!  Total calories right now = 1034

12:30pm:  Total calories = 1339.  Did about an hour of housecleaning and ate lunch while watching LOST.

2:45pm - just back from the grocery store, hauling the bags in and putting everything away - total calories = 1775.  Cool beans!  1,000 to go!

5:00pm - sitting quietly doing my Life Coahc homework preparing for tonight's teleconference.  I'm at 2,000 calories burned so far for theday.  There's not doubt I'll make the 2750 goal by midnight tonight.

Midnight - end of day total 2632.  I'm going to have to work harder to reach my goal each day.

I gardened for 15 minutes - trying to get rid of an overflow of sunflowers seeds that sprouted under my bird feeder.  I also ran around the house playing with the dog  - 15 minutes.  None of this will count towards my hours for the week - but I wanted to include them.

 I plan on biking as long as possible during the BL Season premiere - 1 hour minimum.