No, I DO NOT COUNT THE CALORIES I EAT!
But I did notice today there was a count of ‘calories burned’ with the recorded FitBit info.
I have a part time job where I do a fairly good amount of physical activity. This will involve walking of 4 to 5 miles each day. Any running or ‘walks’, during the Lunch Hour are just icing on the cake.
One of these days at work, I set the watch on the ‘Workout’ mode since I lift literally ‘tons’ of boards putting them on display. These boards are also rotated, so the old stock is lifted out of the display, new stock placed at the back, and then older stock returned. Some of these boards are twelve feet long. So a 1″x6″x12′ may weigh 27 pounds. So lets imagine there are 100 boards in a bundle…. that is 2700 pounds.
That means I will be lifting over a ton of product, 27 pounds at a time for a product that size.
Some days, there may be a dozen bundles of various sized board. That, is a ‘Heck of a Workout’… for four hours.
Since I take a 15 minute break and eat Breakfast, I just start another “Workout’event after that time.
So here are the results of the two “Workouts”, and the ONE MILE walk I take during the first half of my Lunch Hour.
Just the three events, report 1303 calories ‘BURNED’. That covers about 4 hours and 20 minutes.
According to my last Blog Post, I ran 6 miles and lost 4 pounds(and that after a 1.5 lb poop), I guess I average around 3 -4000 calories burnt on average, each day since I started wearing the FitBit.
A pound reportedly has a value of about 3500 calories.
Oh yeah, this may be a good time to remember, you can’t exercise for weight loss. That helps, but you are just not going to lose weight with exercise alone.
It is the food.
And besides, you really would be so much better for yourself IF YOU FOCUSED on HEALTH.
Not weight loss. Or getting that ‘summer swim suit body’….
Focus on being HEALTHY.
Be smart and chose Whole Food, Plant Based.
Sure you can lose weight on Atkins, Keto, Hilton Head, (yada yada yada)……
but …. you can lose weight on Chemo too …
Chose Health. Eat Plants, Whole Foods, and get healthy.
Your body will love it, love you for that!, and the weight come off, and HEALTH will feel much better than any bathing suit…
It will look better too!
No need to count calories, measure protein, nor fear carbs…. as long as you are eating Whole Foods, and Plants!
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