goooood morning!

i got on the scale this morning and i weigh 165.6! i lost 2 pounds since yesterday, and 4.4 founds in total! i know i still weigh a ton, but i'm really happy with my progress.

today, unfortunately i'll have to have a hamburger for lunch at work, so i guess i'll just wrap it in lettuce or something.

i'm going to try cutting out soda. i'll need it to help with cravings, but i usually drink it constantly, so i need to stop that. and hopefully, i'll loose more weight.


think thin ladies!!

I need some advice, and the internet isn't helping me much.
My exercise bike says I'm at 175 RPM and burning some ungodly amount of calories per hour, like 3000 or some such thing... earlier I burned 500 calories in under 15 minutes, no joke. Now, it certainly FEELS like I'm going some ungodly speed, compared to my previous 300-calorie-an-hour stationary ventures, and my rectus abdominus muscles (I think I've got the name right for those) hurt like all fuck after I'm done, like bad enough that I feel the need to take a Celebrex. Basically, my RPM and calories burned at a relatively comfortable speed, at least initially, have gone up and up and up. Like I said, I DO feel like I might just be exerting myself that much, and despite not finding any direct answers online, I did find that a relatively "normal" RPM for people on exercise bikes is more like 50 or 70, not 175.

Anyway, I guess I've determined that if my exercise bike (which is admittedly rather old) is right about my RPM, it's right about my calories burned. Also, seeing as that I feel more or less the same level of tiredness after burning 500 calories in 15 minutes (supposedly) as I did in the past after burning about that much in more like an hour and a half.

What I wanna know is: is my exercise bike's microchip or whatever going haywire, or could I really be going that fast? I haven't been working out enough lately, but for a couple months I'd been consistently doing 60 or 90 minutes every day, or half an hour on days where I didn't feel up to my normal routine. My calories burned per hour had been increasing, and one day after resting for a few days, it was at 400, then 700, and anyway it's just been going up.


I'm sorry if the entry was kind of rambling and hard to follow, lol. But could someone with some knowledge of exercise physiology help me out here? I mean, I'd love it if I'm really doing that, because it means that I wouldn't have to work out as long, but if my exercise bike is lying to me, I want to know so that I don't skimp on the exercise because I think I'm burning more than I am.


I'm probably going to x-post this on _____feathers and my own journal.