Day 220 (day 3 / week 32)

There many different ways to measure exercise. You can measure with distance, intensity, duration, RPE (ratings of perceived exertion) with caloric expenditure (and others). I have done all of these at some time in my life. Currently I am doing the later, because the others remind me that exercise is work (ironically--b/c the expenditure shows the work done! lol). My brain is strange, and I understand that, so it's all good. I know what works. I always have my RPEs in the back of my mind though, because I use those as a red flag for doing to much.

That being said, my weekly caloric expenditure goal is 5700 calories. As of yesterday I needed only 200 more calories for the week (starts over on Sunday) and I did more. Today was supposed to be kind of a non rest day because I only needed to burn 200 calories. I walked for 50 minutes (3 miles including my warm up and cool down) and burned 545. When you burn more calories than you are set up for (to eat) on sparkpeople, you get this "warning" at the bottom of your fitness page.

*You've gone over your weekly calories burned goal by a significant amount. Your calories eaten goal will not adjust automatically. If you have increased the amount of exercise you are doing, you should update your fitness settings here to make sure you are consuming enough calories to support the additional activity.

I find this "warning" very refreshing, because if someone didn't know they were doing to much for the amount of food that they are eating, how would they know if they didn't have any background on fitness/nutrition.

Another reason why I heart sparkpeople.

I am not going to adjust it just yet, because this is the last day in the week, and next week I don't know what's going to happen as I start working. If I do less than 5700, then I will adjust it, just as if I do more, I will do the same.

Boring blog post, I know. Just one of the many things that I think about with this 365 daily challenge!

Hope you all have a great day! I'm not really sure how I can fix my blog so that people can see the text. Some people can only see the banners, and not the meat of my blog at all. *shrug* not sure how to fix it and keep my pretty backgrounds. I am (on a side note) probably going to create another blog this weekend, so I can participate in all of the fun stuff you guys have on your blogs (friday flashback, 5 for 5 and such). I have been trying to make this an "exercise journal" only and not post other stuff, but some of it is just so much fun, and I want to do it too.

Make today count! :)

I can do this. I am a star.