One of my toughest weight loss lessons....

Happy Monday! Scott and I got hooked up with this program in March and immediately started learning lessons that totally debunked myths that we had believed for years….. I think that the biggest one was one Sunday together in April. We both worked at the gym, doing paperwork and bookkeeping and then we went for a 4-hour bike ride. Because it was just the two of us (no hotdogging in front of friends involved), we rode together the entire time. We did pretty much the same thing all day long, including our food. I kept up with him on the bike and then kept up with him at each meal (I do think that I ate a couple less pieces of pizza at dinner). After an entire day of doing nearly the same activities all day long, including that four hour bike ride, he burned nearly 4400 calories and I didn’t even hit 2800. Yet, because I thought I ‘earned it’, I ate the same 2800 calories of food that he did! When I uploaded my data on the following morning, I called the folks who sold me the thing and told them mine was broken…"It's not broken, Mam", I was told. So, I learned one of my most valuable calorie burn lessons firsthand: 1-Genetically, men burn more calories than women. 2-Muscle burns more energy than fat. 3-The larger you are the more calories you can burn. Say it with me - ARGH! From that point on, even if I was keeping up with him physically I know knew that I was not burning the same number of calories, so would not allow myself the same number of incoming calories, either. Lesson learned! My tip of the week - take the long way to the bathroom. At work or at home, don't just walk right straight there. Take the long way through the living room or down the hallway at the office. You'll be surprised how much this ads up during the course of the week!