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Basal Metabolic Rate (BMR) Calculator

This calculator will calculate your BMR (Basal Metabolic Rate). Your BMR, is the energy (measured in calories) expended by the body at rest to maintain normal bodily functions. If your are going for a diet to lose weight then you can start here.

when i calculated mine, at my current weight [169lbs], i'm supposed to consume only 1579 calories/day if i want to lose 1 pound per week.  neat!

why don't you give it a try and find out your BMR?

now what?

seriously, what do i write about?

i really don't know what to say right now.  i've refreshed this 'new post' page about once too many and i still can't come up with anything new or interesting to report.

yes, i'm back to 169lbs.  but that isn't really far from the 171lbs i was a month ago.  and i've not added to my exercise routine.  i'm still ONLY doing Pilates twice a week.

what i'm happy about though is that i'm still eating brown rice instead of white, i only take diet soda but ever so rarely now, and i don't eat sweets as much.

and yes, i've upped the dosage on zytrim, taking 15mg now and always with something that has l-carnitine.

my life is so boring right now.

today's horrific schedule

7:15am - wake up, take a shower, dress up, leave for the gasoline station
8:09am -proceed to my mom's house to fetch her and leave for digos city
9:18am- arrive in digos city for meet-up with camp sabros staff, leave digos city and go back to davao city right after
10ish am - arrive in davao and fetch daddy from the house to go downtown
10:40 am - arrive in the bank, transact
11:45 am -leave bank, drop off parents at the school, go home to fetch miguela [while driving, call the nanny to prepare 2 packs skyflakes and a bottle of apple flavored fit n right]
12:19am - pick up guela, start munching on skyflakes
12:26am- drop off guela and the nanny at school, continue munching on skyflakes, proceed to the Pilates center for 1pm appointment, finish fit n right in 2 gulps.
12:51am- arrive at the center,make a client call before getting off the car
1:00pm - 1 hour Pilates session
2:00pm - trudge back to the car and defer picking up laundry as it started drizzling, dang!, go straight home instead
2:30pm - arrive home, play with maxie for a while, open a can of tuna paella [a review on this later] zap it for 20 seconds in the micro, drizzle squeezed lemon over it and down it in 15 minutes
2:45pm - ask the nanny to wake me up in 15 minutes, and take a much needed nap
3:00pm - wake up, take a shower, dress up, play again with maxie for a while
3:30pm - leave the house to fetch miguela, park far away from the school gate [still drizzling and miguela loves to walk under her little umbrella in the rain]
4:30pm - leave the school when miguela finally said yes after i told her that we needed to go to the supermarket [she wanted to stay with her classmate and play some more]
5ish pm - arrive at the mall and proceed to the supermarket, buy groceries
6:10 pm - leave the mall and go home, traffic!!!
6:40 pm - arrive home wash hands, greet maxie, prepare dinner of tortang nylon
7:20 pm - eat dinner [tortang nylon with ketchup and a cup of brown rice] with maxie carefully watching him for signs of an allergy attack [he got red lumps all around his mouth while sipping seafood chowder at my brother's wedding]
7:50 pm - force feed miguela [yes, when it comes to eating, maxie is the voracious one]
8:20 pm - finally sit down to relax and make this post

if it weren't raining by the time i fetched guela i would have squeezed in maxie's immunization appointment with the pedia before going to the supermarket!

tsk, tsk, tsk

two things which are disturbing me right now:
 
Number 1
i'm not liking this new routine of mine.  i starve myself in the morning and have my first meal at 1pm at the earliest.  this happened twice last week, and now, a monday at that, i'm at it again.

it's not by choice ok.  i just have to leave for work much too early, i'd rather sleep some more than prepare and eat breakfast at 6 or 7 am.  and once i'm at the school, more often than not, there's work piled up waiting for me that i forget to eat.

so you can imagine that by afternoon i'm famished.  i have to bring guela to school at noontime so it's either i eat before or after that.  i gotta fix this or else i'll end up either with ulcers or an even worse metabolism.

and Number 2
i gotta get rid of all the junk [food] we have.  i also wanna start seriously feeding my kids veggies.  how do i find a way to make it attractive for them?  i've tried mashing them up to unrecognizable goop, but even when they still had no teeth, they spit it out before they even got to really taste it.  and now that they love soup, and meat, and rice, they cunningly remove whatever green thing is hidden in every spoonful.  the only reason i'm not THAT scared of them being undernourished is because of the enormous amount of milk they drink [pediasure and gain].

any of you got any advice out there?  i've tried them all, from being a good example to cutting the veggies up into cute shapes.  and don't tell me to smother them in cheese or cream as i can not do that each and every meal, it's gonna defeat the purpose, too much cream and cheese cannot be healthy.

or am  i just making such a big fuss?  i hated veggies when i was a kid and i love them now.  should i do something about it or just let them be?

tsk, tsk, tsk.... what do i do?

p.s. i made spaghetti alla carbonara yesterday, you might wanna check it out, i can't believe that even in a recipe blog, i managed to let my o.-c.ness get the better of me.

today was a bad day

one of the things i hate about staying home the whole day is that i almost always end up eating junk food, with my kids at that.  today i think the junk outweighed the healthy stuff.

to keep maxie busy:
a handful of chips
2 biscuit sticks dipped in choco cream [the last 2 he wouldn't eat and i hate throwing food in the trash]

brunch:
a cup of brown rice
2 headless spanish sardines
2 table spoons of spicy laing
a cup of Hunt's Snackpack choco pudding

after my imaginary nap [who can sleep with 2 kids jumping over and around you in bed?]:
a banana with a pat of hazelnut spread in each bite [don't ask me how many bites it took]

while watching 'Penelope' on star movies with guela:
microwaveable popcorn [3 handfuls]

dinner: to cap this junky day, i ordered guela's favorite sausage-stuffed crust pizza with pepperoni as topping.  i had 2 oily slices of that and washed it down with a bottle of fit n right blueberry-grape juice

don't be too harsh on me now.  the junk food parade is something i reserve for times like today when i'm too pooped to be a good mommy.  my nose is acting up again, it's so itchy and i think i sneezed a thousand times today.  plus i lack 1 kasambahay today so instead of just enjoying my kids, i had to attend to the cleaning up after them too.  try that while successively sneezing every few minutes,  i don't know why i did not think to take my allergy meds sooner.  sheesh!

anyhoo, i think a paragraph is enough to try to weasel my way out of feeling guilty for my junk-filled day.

for what's it worth:  i tried to mop out the oil from the pizza with a paper towel at least 2 times. =P

laziness and a black ruffled blouse

i'm a lazy blogger,  yes i am.  and a lazy dieter, lazy gym-goer, lazy dresser. lazy, period.

but mind you, i have been everything but lazy in the weight-loss department this past week or two [or since my last post to be exact].  my visit to the pedia [where i started weighing myself] 2 weeks ago confirmed my worst fears.  i gained weight, 5 pounds to be exact.  i thought i could get away with my pill-popping and erratic work-out schedule, who was i kidding???

so as of 2 weeks ago, the scale read 171 lbs.  My next visit to the pedia [for maxie's  flu vaccine] is on July 6 and that's this tuesday already.  i hope to be atleast back to 169 lbs.  i've been faithful to my no white rice promise, and i've also been very conscious of my food intake.  and i've been consistent with my twice-a-week pilates sessions [the moves are getting more and more challenging!].  i'm still trying to see how i can fit in gym-time into my new role as a mom of a pre-schooler.  if that's not going to be possible, i think i'll force myself to do some walking in a park, atleast twice a week too.  and then maybe some video work-outs while maxie is taking his noontime naps.  woohoo!  am i on a roll or what. he he, that's just wishful thinking for now.

but i do have some good news. =D  i bought a blouse online last May.  i tried it on the minute i got it.  it went past my shoulders and my chest, but it felt like i was going to burst at the seams.  so i hung it in my closet, thinking it would just end up in the charity bag, like all my 'illusionada' buys of the past.  well guess what, i tried it on this morning and was happy to be able to breathe comfortably in it.  i wore it to work today. =D  that's something major, if i may say so myself. =D

here's me, wearing the blouse, and Maxie  who was busy watching barney [but posed for mama, anyway =D].

  i'm still BIG,i know.  but at least not as big as i was a month ago, he he.  here's to seeing the scales tip in my favor next week!