There’s a few things I need to find answers to, I just haven’t had the time to research them online.  They include:

Do excess calories roll over to the next day?

Now that I’m actually paying attention to my calorie consumption and expenditure, I wonder if unused calories “roll over” to the next day or if you have just that 24-hour period to use them up before they’re stored as fat.  Let’s say I burn 2,500 calories on Wednesday.  But on Wednesday, … see the full entry

From my FitDay journal:

1,650 calories eaten today

Extra Calories Burned (in addition to my normal activity level)
45 minutes at the gym with heavy weights (215)
1 mile very fast “power walk” (101)
1.3 miles dog-walking (85)
401 Total

1265 (BMR) + 705 (Daily Actvity) + 401 (Extra Excericse) = 2,375 Calories burned today

Difference of -721 Calories

Your basal metabolic rate, or BMR, is how many calories your body burns daily to keep you alive.  That is, even if you were to lie in bed all day, your body would still be burning calories as your heart pumps, your lungs breathe, your brain works, your blood flows, etc.  You can consider this your baseline calorie expenditure.

The older you get, the lower your BMR gets, and the heavier you are, the higher your BMR.  This may seem unfair … see the full entry

It’s Thursday.  My last entry was Monday - egads!  I need to put more effort into keeping this updated.

This week has been busy, but I am still going to the gym everyday!  I almost didn’t yesterday, Wednesday, because I decided on Tuesday night to get a bit more sleep and go after work instead.  The Celtics had just won an amazing series and I was up a little bit later than I should have been; I only had one drink … see the full entry

I went out for dinner tonight.  Now usually, I would have ordered something like the ribs or steak, but I’m consciously trying to make healthier choices now.  Not that I think steak is bad for you, but I eat enough red meat as it is already.  I decided to go for either the tuna steak or the rotisserie chicken.

Wanting something a bit more substantial, I ordered the 1/2 rotisserie chicken with a side of brown rice and the hot & … see the full entry

I’m having lunch, and they brought in both white rice and brown rice. As much as I love white rice (and I mean LOVE), I chose to have the brown rice.

It’s really not bad at all. I’ve decided that if I have a choice, I’ll chose the healthier option. More often than not, it’s still very tasty.

If I don’t have a choice, I’m not going to beat myself up about it and make sure that for the … see the full entry

So lunch today was catered breakfast foods and I just couldn’t help myself.

• 5 breakfast-sized pork sausage links
• 4 slices of bacon
• a heaping of scrambled eggs (maybe the size of two tennis balls)
• a cup of fresh fruit (honeydew, cantaloupe, pineapple, oranges, and grapes)

I wanted more, but I stopped myself. An hour after lunch, I felt tired and groggy. This happened before, the last time I tried to eat healthy, whenever I eat heavy/fatty foods, I felt physically dulled and slowed afterwards.

Let … see the full entry

While in the supermarket last night to pick up some eggs, I got a craving for some breakfast sausage.  Now, I know how utterly unhealthy sausages are, but they’re one of my favorite foods.  I like them in links, patties, mixed in with stuffing, anything, you name it.  Mmm mmm mmm!

I also want to shake up my morning breakfast routine a bit.  A girl can only take so much cereal and milk before she goes bonkers!  As I was looking … see the full entry

So we had the Armenian food, and I ate so much of it.  No exaggeration - I ate to the point where my stomach was stretched and round. I felt stuffed and uncomfortable, yet I kept eating because it was just. so. tasty. Ugh! Self control, Taffy, self control!

3 greasy, roasted (I think?) fatty pork ribs
a 6″ kabob of some sort… chicken maybe
1/2 a pickled cauliflower head
2 cups of green tea

It doesn’t seem like much now that I’m writing it … see the full entry

I feel bad that I didn’t blog at all yesterday. I’ve been so tired! I’m still not used to getting up so early, and I haven’t compensating by going to bed earlier. I went to bed Tuesday night around midnight, and last night it was around 1 AM. I really have no excuse for staying up so late - I’m just so used to it plus I’m a night person who tends to get energized in the evenings.

Also, … see the full entry