It's all good so far

Today I was able to get to the club right after work. Treadmill first for 45 minutes. With my knees it is only walking but after warming up, I pushed the grade to 5 at 3.5 mph for the first mile and then to 9 at 3.5 for the second. Quick warm down for a total of 2.25 miles

Into the pool – club has a 25 m pool nice & cold
500 swim (felt much better than Saturday’s)
4 x 100 kick IM Order
3 x 100 Free
4 x 50 Breast
100 IM reverse warm down

1500 meters in 35 plus minutes
Neither log quite well into the Livestrong.com website’s daily plate that lets you track calories and exercise. Had to estimate a bit and round down on the total calories burned.

The site helps you set a daily calorie intake. Mine (assuming that I do some walking around during the day and am not a total couch spud) is 2052, which should theoretically put me at a net weight loss of 2.5 lbs\week. I will be weighing in on Thursday mornings.

What was neat was my net calorie count for the day (before dinner) was -55 calories. Even after a slice of Bertolli’s mushroom lasagna and a small slice of pie, the total net count is 830 for the day.

The process still has me looking at menu options and calculating calories per portion. Livestrong and the Daily Plate sites have good databases of both commercial and homemade foods. And yes there is a Livestrong Iphone app for that. Still there are occasions that I have to do some approximating. Overall though it seems that I have been able to keep the intake to ~1800 calories per day or less.

I will never get back down to the college swimming weight but my goal is to get under the Philmont weight guidelines with room to spare.

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