Dropping pounds with inspiring pals *CLOSED GROUP*

AAaaaaaah, what a week! Where do I begin??? First off, it's been a great week up untill today exercise wise... didn't get much cardio in today.. just a walk with the dogs and 30DS. Which is good... my calorie burn was like 720 but it's been 1800. Been eating decent too... but not good enough I guess... even though on days the scale will say I've lost... on others I'm up. Keep going between 247-251. I guess I have had a couple bad nights... been a lot going on, and food used to be my go-to for comfort. Not so much anymore, although I do cave once in a while. Good thing is it almost makes me sick to my stomach when I eat a bunch of crap anymore... more reason to no too! So it's been 2 days since I've looked at the scale. I guess that's the thing this week? Not getting on the scale everyday? (Sorry, still trying to get back in the swing of things with the group after being gone a while).

Blah... I could go on and on and on. Just needed to vent.

Vent away That's what we're here for. Yes the goal is to not look at the scale this week. I totally understand what you mean about jumping back and forth between numbers...its very annoying! But you got this, pretty soon it will be jumping between 245 and 247, and then 240 and 243 and so on. Will still be annoying...but will be progress.

Well...so far so good. I have been exercising everyday this week and doing alright on my calories...(granted its only been 2 days..but whatever lol).

So, speaking of heart-rate monitors. Do those of you who use one subtract your resting calories burned from it before entering in the exercise?

I had a MFP friend post a blog about this a while back...I'll see if I can find it and post the link. But it made a lot of sense to me.

Here is how it works (I'll use myself as an example).

According to MFP and my activity level (which I have at sedentary) I burn 2,290 calories just being me. No gym etc.

So that means if I take 2290 (calories I burn in a day) / 1440 (minutes in a day) = I burn 1.5 calories a minute just living life with no extra exercise.

Now lets say I walk for 60 minutes and burn 300 calories. In that same 60 minutes I would have naturally burned 90 calories.

So MFP is already accounting for 90 calories on my food diary when it picks how much I should be eating for a deficit..

If I add the full 300 burned from exercise, I'm actually adding 390. Before adding exercise, you should be subtracting what you would have burned without it.

Therefore, walking 60 minutes is 300-90 = 210 EXTRA calories burned.

Yes...seems like a lot of math, but once you get it, its not really. But if you think about that. That means that if you eat back all your exercise calories everyday. Then your actually eating an extra 90 calories.

Today has been one hell of a crazy day and its only lunch time! I get to work and one of my co-workers is flipping out.... her son & his gf were robbed at gunpoint last night. They took all of their possessions and then demanded money... they said they didn't have any so the robbers almost raped the gf and killed them both! The gf started shouting that she gets paid tomorrow (today) so the robbers let them go and said they would be back today for their money!! So needless to say, they are packing up whats left of their stuff and moving out before the robbers come back! I feel horrible for them, and I'm praying the robbers aren't waiting/watching for them to get home... please pray they can make it out of their apartment unharmed!

I hope they call the cops!