Day 181...I think.

I just happened to check the blog today. I have had it in one of my tabs open ever since I started neglecting to blog...hoping someone would burst back on. AND LOW AND BEHOLD!!!!! LOlly-pants is blogging!! Yay!

So, I should be blogging, too. I've surprisingly been thinking about it all last week, but didn't want to try and figure out what day it was.

My story: I quite blogging for a little over a month. And in that time managed to get almost back up to 150 pounds. Some days I was calorie counting some days I wasn't. I finally went to the doctor and had a metabolism test run...and apparently my metabolism is definitely not fast. Her words were that my metabolism is very slow. But the results say i'm only 9% below average. What does that mean for my calories. Well, I have definitely been eating too many calories. Brooke and I talked last time I was in town and we were thinking maybe I needed to bump up to 1900 since I work out consistently. UH, no.

My RMR - resting metabolic rate is only a mere 1368. The paper I was given says I can add 408 for daily activities and another 142 if i exercise. Landing me at 1768 calories is my ABSOLUTE max if I am not working out....and that's to maintain ( I thought it was 2000).

Anyway, needless to say, I'm attempting to set my intake at 1500. Last week I had it at 1600 but keep going over 50 or 60, so I'm setting it at 1500.

Last week was my 1st week of 1hour long work outs. I went to a class everyday and worked my tail off for an hour 5 days. Rested on Saturday and Sunday. And got up today to do it all over again. I love Gold's gym.

Cheers to the future, and less pudge, and more blogging because we committed to it.