last week thursday I ate a 8000 calorie hamburger, so no matter how you calculate it I need to swim over 8 hrs just for that one meal ;)
I take it you mean 800 calories.
Anyway I had a similar experience a few days ago. On Sat. morning I had a good swim session. Later that day we went to a high class hamburger restaurant and I had a 300gr. all beef burger on a bun with onions. And a small Coke. And a little ice cream. Next morning I weighed 1 kg.. more than on Sat. morning. On Sun. I didn't work out but ate normally. On Mon. morning I was back down to my usual 94kg.
Hi Greg-
PS Since January, I have seen a nutritionist, who told me that I don't eat nearly enough. She told me that she was amazed I could function at all, and that my body was starving and storing fat.
There are sites that help you determine your base caloric intake - the total amount to maintain your weight at its current level. Then you cut back by 350-500 calories (or something like that) to lose a pound of weight either by exercise or eating less. It is interesting that by cutting way back, on eating , as you found out, you actually trick your body into doing the opposite of what you want. There is a fine balance, that's why they recommend that you only shoot to lose at a rate of 1 or 2 lbs a week. Soda used to be my big vice too, but I moved to sparkling water then to plain water and I don't miss it all that much.
The HR monitor I got was a Polar F90. It's a pink watch w/black strap. Someone on another site suggested it, and it was perfect for my needs. I'm sure they have a comparable model in something other than pink!
I got it at www.heartratemonitorsusa.com. I shopped around on several different sites and they were the cheapest, no tax, no shipping, and I got it in 2 days :)
This site has all different brands and models.
Tim- my hubby has a Garmin too that does everything but the laundry! He really likes it for when he runs because we live in a very hilly area and he likes to see the amount of effort expended, etc. I'm not that fancy.
Flurpo- I agree, swimming does not help me lose wt. I can maintain it great, but I need to run to lose wt. The only way I lose wt swimming is if I kick up my yardage to over 7000 yds. I can't do that with four kids (the month of March excepted when I do March Madness!). I think my body has adapted quite well to 'aquatic expenditure' in 30 years of swimming, so it doesn't really think swimming is 'exercise'. Running, that's another story!
Joshua- I remember reading an article in a Tri magazine where some guy was complaining because overweight females were beating him in the pool. He was a runner. He didn't get the difference in the two sports. The editor told the guy that "maybe she's just a better swimmer than you," and left it at that. I laughed.
I take it you mean 800 calories.
actually a 2lb (900g) 30% fat 4 patty hamburger with Mayo and 4 slices cheese from www.heartattackgrill.com/index.html
they claim it was 8,000 calories, I also had a coke and fries.
I've got a picture posted on FB
www.facebook.com/photo.php
:afraid: Unfortuneately, I have discovered that I just don't burn enough calories in the water for the amount of effort I put in. Running is the only way I've ever been able to loose weight. I still love the pool but for some reason I just can't loose the weight swimming that I do running. Not sure why.....I certainly put the effort into my pool workouts...
actually a 2lb (900g) 30% fat 4 patty hamburger with Mayo and 4 slices cheese from www.heartattackgrill.com/index.html
they claim it was 8,000 calories, I also had a coke and fries.
You should have gotten a milkshake and chili cheese fries.
Atlantic-
rmillstein-
It's a regular HR monitor that also counts calories- that's it. The features I can think of (that I didn't look for specifically) are that it stores your data, in a file, for up to 13 workouts and then deletes the oldest info first. There is also a way to download it to your computer, but I just wrote the info I wanted into my little book.
When I got it, it took me about 2 minutes to type in: age, M/F, wt, and ht. It automatically knew my HR zones based on that info. One thing though, be sure as you lose wt, to change the wt in the watch. There is a difference in calories burned.
One other thing I thought was interesting is that it tells you how much of the calories you burned was fat. For example, 40% fat burned. I'm still not quite sure how that works, so if someone could enlighten me I'd appreciate it.
Thank you -- that's helpful!
Hey r-
I'm sorry. My HR monitor is the Polar F6. Sorry for the confusion!
I have never been able to get it to work as a stopwatch though =(
Ah, ok! Thanks again!
