In our old fat-living days, calories didn't much cross my mind (and I know Mr. didn't think about them). But in our current fit-living days, we pay attention to calories quite a bit. Not in an eating-disorder way or obsessive-compulsively or anything like that. More practically, we consider how many calories should we consume in our food, and how many we burn with our exercise.
Back in February, I wrote about a site that calculates how many calories you need to achieve your weight-loss goal. Since then, I've been aiming for the suggested 1,200 calories a day in my total food intake (though usually, I go over that).
Today, Hungry-Girl pointed me to a calculator that tells you how many calories you burn in a day doing absolutely nothing. It's called your Basal Metabolic Rate (BMR). Mine is 1,673--which means I burn more than 1,600 calories a day just by existing. I love it! Mr.'s BMR is 2,367. No wonder he loses a pound in a week when he hardly exercises. Men! Harumph.
Of course, adding exercise to your day helps burn additional calories (duh), so on most days I'm probably burning more like 2,000 calories. I try to boost that number in any way I can, so I do things like take the stairs at work, park and walk instead of aiming for the rock-star parking space, and stand up a lot. Plus, work out "for realz" at the gym or home.
Want more ideas of how to fit exercise into your busy day? Check out these awesome tips from Gaiam.com. Plus, find more ideas from the Mayo Clinic and multitask by combining family time with exercise.
If you have a smart way to burn calories outside of your workout, we'd love to hear it!
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I recommend getting an impedance test at your gym. It will give you personalized results for you BMR and your body fat %. It will also tell you how many calories that you personally will burn doing different exercises for different lengths of time. I had one and it was really neat.
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