Lisa’s Rant….life and healthy eating

As I was getting into my car this morning this big (beautiful) deer sprinted past me. I was half asleep and thought I imagined it for a minute. Craziness. You don’t usually see deer where I live since I’m in the city so it was quite odd.

Anyways last night I got a 30 minute cardio workout of 15 min on the eliptical and 15 min on the treadmill with half of it walking on an incline.  Then I went to class where we talked about energy expenditure and the age old question “how many calories do I need?” The easiest way is to go on some website and find out your RMR/BMR. But we talked about some old theories. Once that I’ve heard before can’t think of the name right now but the one where you at 5lbs to 100lbs each inch you are over 5 feet tall for woman. For men its 106 and you add 6lbs. I never liked this one because I’m 5′5 and no where near 125. You are supposed to add and subtract 10% based on your frame size by seeing if you can wrap your fingers around your wrist, if they touch you stay the same, if they don’t touch add 10%, if they overlap subtract 10%. Mine touch so I’m supposed to remain at 125. I think only 2 people in my class met the required rate. Even my teacher and the tiny girl in front of me didn’t meet it so I felt better haha. Not that I think its a good judge just interesting. I asked the bf for a  boys point of view and he met the criteria to the tee. He’s 6′2.  How do you all compare to this calculation? Apparently insurance companies and some doctor’s go by this. I also learned that the body fat tests are not all that accurate for the most part unless you go in one of those crazy machines. So don’t be too discouraged.

I also felt like such an over achiever last night I was the only one who typed out the Diet Analysis project and put it in a binder. I think its my auditing skills coming out that I have to put things neatly in binders with dividers. People were like wow who turned in the binder. As I scrunched down in my seat haha. Whatev.

I came home last night and had a salad with cucumbers and a Morning Star Tomato Mozzarella Pizza or something veggie burger, topped with woodstock dressing. Man was that veggie burger yummmyy!

This morning I had NS Bran Flakes cereal with light vanilla soy milk, and a cup of coffee with a fage strawberry when I got into work and just a few minutes ago had a banana for a mid morning snackaroo.

TGIF t minus 7 hours until the weekend!