Daily Post: Sunday, October 2

Track: Yes
Calories: Yes
Exercise: Yes (🧘‍♂️12 min; 🤽‍♂️60 min; 🚶‍♂️3.21 mi/53 min; 👣12,000 steps)
Goals/Day/Comments: I started running 5K once a month back in March. I had just gotten to the point where I could walk 5K, then I saw a "weekend 5K run" challenge on my Garmin watch and decided to give it a try. My pace then was ~18:00/mi (which involved a lot of walking). Ten weeks ago, I started a 5K training program on my Garmin watch. It involved doing cadence drills and slowly increasing the distance week to week. Today that program culminated in my first 5K where I was walking only about 10% of the time. On this run, I set a few new personal records: best 1 km pace = 14:23/mi, best 1 mile pace = 14:56/mi, best 5K pace = 16:16/mi. At half my current age, I was running twice that speed, but I'll take it. 😊
Two years ago, just walking a quarter mile was a challenge.

Dheliason
October week 1
PW: 158.5
CW: 161.1

Darn it!!

@frankwbrown. That’s awesome to hear. Keep it going.

Daily Post: Monday, October 3

Track: Yes
Calories: Yes
Exercise: Yes (🚶‍♂️hike 9.19 mi/~ 6 hrs/2,200 ft ascent/descent; 👣26,377 steps)
Goals/Day/Comments: Today, I spent the day at Muir Woods in the Golden Gate National Recreation Area. I hiked for almost 6 hours (that's including a number of breaks) and went 9.19 miles, ascending/descending 2,200 feet. I am so sore right now, and I know I'll still be sore tomorrow. But it was worth it; it was a beautiful hike.

Good afternoon everyone!!!!!!

Daily post for Monday October 3rd
Tracked calories: yes I was under my calories
Activity: outdoor run 43 minutes 4 miles 604 active calories burned
Outdoor walk 45 minutes 2.6 miles 300 active calories burned
Total steps for the day: 19,938

Many of us have a device that calculates our calories burned during exercise and forwards that data to MFP. MFP gives you the option to add these calories to your daily allowance.
Based on my experience with what my food/exercise logging tells me and what I observe when I weigh, I have long suspected that I don't burn as many calories during exercise as my Garmin watch calculates. Because of this, I've not been comfortable adding all active calories to my daily allowance, but I've wanted to be able to add at least some.
I just learned that for calories burned, Garmin calculates both a resting calories and active calories! I had never noticed that before! And what Garmin sends to MFP is the total calories burned. This explains a lot!
I went back and reviewed a bunch of activities and saw resting calories varying from as low as 10% to as high as 40% of total calories burned. Then I began thinking how the activity time affects that ratio. I noticed that on average the resting calories is roughly around 100 calories/minute. So, I figured I could double the minutes of exercise and get an approximate number for resting calories. To check that assumption, I did a search and found this:
According to the American Council on Exercise, the average person burns 0.02 calories per minute at rest, per kg of body weight. Since I weigh around 100 kg, that comes out to 2 calories/minute!
Hopefully, I will now be able to see a better correlation between my day-to-day calorie deficit (or excess!) and my weight.

looneycatblue wrote: »

Looks like I am missing some weigh-ins for the 5th week of September. Sep 25 - Oct 1st:

@carenwilson1983
@UnicornMermaidMom
@Colleen790

If I missed your original post, my appologies. Please post again for the record.

Thank you,
Teresa

I have been away on holidays so didn’t post my weight for last Saturday

Daily Post: Tuesday, October 4

Track: Yes
Calories: No
Exercise: Yes (🧘‍♂️14 min; 🤽‍♂️60 min; 👣10,134 steps)
Goals/Day/Comments: No walk and no strength training; still recovering from Monday's hike.

Daily post for October 5th

Tracked calories: yes and I was over
Activity: indoor run 53 minutes 4.2 miles 609 active calories burned
Total steps for the day: 15,344

I’m going to opt out for October. I have so much going on this month. We have family visiting from Europe plus other things going on. I will be back in November. All the best to you all.