I've been wearing mine almost from the minute I wake up until I climb into bed at night. On Wednesday I did 14 h & 39 minutes to burn 1811 calories. I did NROL4W followed by HIIT for 4 - 1 min high/2 min rest intervals. Yesterday I burned 1790 in 13 hrs & 50 minutes. I did NROL4W. That's it. I thought I was sitting around doing very little yesterday but apparantly not. I've currently had it on for 7 hrs & have already burned 885 calories. I'm taking a little of the NEAT approach & moving more. Hey, a calorie burned is a calorie burned, right?
I finished reading Power Eating yesterday. It scares me. She says I should be eating about 1800 calories, 164 g protein (I can't remember the fat & carb breakdown) for fat loss. I'm only burning 1800 calories on a good day. Yes, I realize that I would be burning more in my sleep but still...That's just freakish. I'm eating anywhere from 14 to 1500/day right now. Just starting to hit my ratios. I'm afraid if I add too much more I'll blow up more.
Wendy, I'll be getting my info to you this weekend. I have been waiting to get my eating more "organized" before asking for real input from you because you SOOOOO busy & I don't want to abuse my priveleges of knowing the best fitness people in the industry. Really, I think that way.
Laura, John & I are both doing NR. He's doing the original. He started FL1 last night & I'm still in Stage 1. I commented that while Lou said Alwyn created what could be said to be tougher workouts; I just didn't see the variety.
The other thing with the original is that they were very clear in when to do HIIT & how to do it. There's an entire chapter. I couldn't find the information & posted on jpfitness to be told I was missing it. It's buried after the chapter on the workouts & says to do very little--15 minute. Which really blows my mind because we all know women have a harder time burning fat than men.
I've done 4 cardio workouts this week. Doing jump rope, elliptical, cycling, & I've done 1 kettlebell workout (very light weight). I've done 3 sessions this week & will add another interval beginning on Saturday. I am LOVING jumping rope. It's like being a kid again.
Big other news! I got my hair layered & Erin & I frosted it last night. I wasn't sure about it because it is a HUGE change. In fact I just said to someone that my hair screams, "HEY LOOK AT ME I'VE BEEN CUT & COLORED!" I wasn't sure if I like it but the reactions I'm getting are making it pretty clear that the move was a good one. I'll have John take a picture this weekend.
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Deb, I'm not sure how sophisticated the calories-burned function in your typical heart rate monitor really is. I mean, it'll certainly give you a ballpark estimate of calories burned during exercise, but I don't know whether it really takes into account daily calorie expenditure on involuntary stuff like digestion and maintaining body temperature and so forth.
Also, I think the Power Eating fat loss plan kind of assumes you're doing more cardio than what's recommended by Lou and Alwyn. IIRC the idea is to create about a 500 calorie deficit every day, for a pound of fat loss every week, and the deficit comes from eating a couple hundred calories less than your maintenance level, and burning a couple hundred more by upping your cardio. If you don't do the extra cardio but instead do NROL4W as written, you'd need to cut your calories further ... which probably explains why the NROL4W calorie recommendation for fat loss is so much lower than the Power Eating rec.
Wendy, please jump in here if what I've said sounds wrong to you, especially the part about the heart rate monitor, because honestly I'm just speculating here.
Hmmm, interesting thoughts on the HRM. I never gave it a second thought. Just assumed that the function would take all of the involuntary stuff into account. But you're probably right.
I'm willing to try anything at this point. Including eating more if that's what it takes. It just freaks me out thinking about it.
From what I understand, HRMs aren't very accurate in caloric burn when you're under 100 BPM. I might be wrong, but I read that somewhere, maybe in the manual of my own HRM?
Also, just as a general rule of thinking, I almost never at first think the reason a person isn't losing weight is that they're eating too little. :) It's that they might be eating too much, or completely the wrong things. I base that mostly on math and my own experience with myself, LOL!
If you were eating too little, chances are you would have experienced a significant and fast loss, and then everything would come to a screeching halt because at that point your body would say, WTF? and slow the metabolism to save you. Unless you had a medical problem or something. Again, I'm not a nutritionist, but it only makes sense. :)
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