Calories Burned Calculator

I’m turning into an iPhone fanatic. I’m using my phone for everything – I keep track of my financial accounts on it, I track my weight, how much water I drink, I have a food nutritional information application that I can look up items on, a daily food journal/calorie budget application… and on and on. I’m only just starting the food journal app, and in it you can add your own excercises and calories burned per time period – so I needed to figure out approximate how many calories I’m burning doing the various workouts I do. Well, I found this great site with a ‘Calories Burned Calculator‘ based on your height and weight with several exercises listed that you can enter number of minutes performed to get the calories burned. Check it out here:

Calories Burned Calculator

I was pleasantly surprised to see that when I do vigorous weight training, I burn about 400-500 calories in 35 minutes. Woo-hoo! I still do ‘Turbo Jam’ and it’s not listed, but I used ‘Judo-Martial arts’ instead since there’s a lot of boxing and kicking, etc. in the TJ workout. This way I have decent approximate calories burned to add into my daily journal – which calculates how many calories I need to lose 2 lbs/wk based on my height and weight. It’s a decent guideline. I’ve never counted calories before, which could explain why I eat too much. lol… I have no concept of how many calories are in most of the food I consume. 

As for my status, I lost 4 lbs last month and am determined to do better this month. I went back and reviewed some info from Ann Louise Gittleman’s Fat Flush plan… and I’m wondering if my weightloss has slowed due to eating more low-fat dairy. I’m going to cut down for a week and see how it goes. 

I also tried something new: Almond Milk, to replace cow’s milk in my smoothies and in my new favorite comfort – ‘Clean’ hot chocolate. I’ve made 2 variations now, and I love both and don’t find that I miss all the fat in them. So after looking around online to see if I could find almond milk in bulk so it’s less expensive, it seems making it from scratch is pretty easy, so that’ll be my next thing. All it takes is 1 cup of raw almonds, skins on, soaked 8-12 hours in clean filtered or spring water. Then you drain them, and blend the soaked almonds in 4 cups of clean water. You can add flavor if you want – 2 tsp vanilla extract [alcohol free if you want o keep it truly 'raw' - I honestly don't care... I'm not on a raw food or vegan diet], or 1/2 a vanila bean pod, honey or agave syrup to sweeten, natural unsweetened cocoa powder, etc. and whiz it up in the blender together. The last step is straining it through a fine mesh of some sort like cheese cloth. You could also use a coffee filter or paper towels, sprout bag or nut bag… if the liquid your’e left with isn’t 100% smooth, put it back in the blender and blend until smooth. What I’m not sure of is how long it lasts before it goes bad. 

I’m going ot cut down on caffeine – I drink organic coffee 3 days a week when I’m in the office, black, which is fine, but I tend to drink tea all day long when it’s cold out and caffeine taxes the liver and can slow down fat burning… So instead I’m going to switch to hot lemon water, which I love. An added bonus – it keeps your teeth whiter, and cleanses the liver, primes the digestive system so it’s more efficient and it’s hot, which is what I want in winter!

Something I’m excited to try later today is julienning some kale and using it like I would pasta for some shrimp scampi – sautéing it in garlic and olive oil and tossing it with shrimp and lemon juice. If it turns out well, getting my greens will be a lot easier. 

Cheers to good health… 

Calories Burned Calculator courtesy of healthstatus.com