Anyway, so this time LAST week I decided I would start monitoring my heart rate on a daily basis (for a week) to see how many calories I was burning and my average heart rates and what not…AND because I love to crunch numbers.

So here is what I came up with – I made sure that I didn’t do anything TOO out of the ordinary on these days, there is only one where I did a BIT more than I usually do. And this doesn’t include any workouts.

Thursday – worn for 15.75 hours – burned 2601 calories

Friday - worn for 15.75 hours – burned 3096 calories (I adjusted the weight on my HRM that day AND I did a lot of moving boxes around the office)

Saturday – Worn for 13.75 hours – burned 2818 calories

Sunday – Worn for 10 hours (OOPS! Forgot for a couple of hours!) – burned 2089 calories (I also ate a lot this day!)

Monday – Worn for 15.75 hours – burned 2870 calories

Tuesday - Worn for 14.25 hours – burned 2770 calories

Wednesday – Worn for 15.5 hours - burned 2557 (this was a LAZY day!!!)

Wednesday overnight (I decided to do this one on a whim!) worn for 8.5 hours – burned 1108 calories

On Average I burn 188 calories per hour!!! That’s crazy!!! And that included one high day and one low…the number that showed up the most was 165 though.

While I slept, I burned 130 calories per hour.

Some interesting things about my heart rate:

Average heart rate for me was 83 – this is JUST above POOR!!! That’s terrible!!

Max heart rate average was around 141 (the highest I got to while awake was 153 – while moving boxes at work).

The SCARY part for me??? While I slept my heart rate averaged 67 and the MAX was 204!!!!! I want to know what I was dreaming of!!! That is SUPER scary to me though because my MAX heartrate should be 194 for my age…that is just crazy!!

Anyway, I would love to know how accurate a heart rate monitor is for this kind of thing…according to the results my daily average for calorie burn is 2685. If you add on my calories while sleeping, that is 3794!!! Since I am eating WAY less than that per day and not losing…I think there has to be something a LITTLE wrong there!!

Anybody know anything about how reliable HRM’s are supposed to be??

The only downside of the films is that they force out the inner nerd in me…is it odd that this:

Totally rocks my world

and that this:

Looks like a spanish drug lord?? (no attraction to this pic WHATSOEVER).

*Sigh* I am a geek indeed!!

So we are heading out on our road trip in a matter of minutes!! I can’t wait!! I have been looking forward to this little getaway for MONTHS now! And even better now, our couple friends are heading to the city as well! So we will shop/eat lunch with them on Wednesday…I wish I had known they were going before today…I just made New Years plans the other day and had I known they were going we could have done something to include them…oh well, at least we live near them, so we get to hang out all the time!

Anyway, I am also a bit nervous on the “job front” right now…I have a timeline in which I need to find a new job and that is closing at an alarming rate. I applied for one that I would LOVE to have and I am definitely qualified for, but I believe they are slower in their selection process…so even if I am called for an interview I might not hear from them for a while…however, I am making sure to think positive thoughts, though it might not get me the dream job, it might get me something good for the time being (at least until I finish the brokers course…if I was finished that I could try that field right away, but I still have a bit of work ahead of me on that one). I guess I will just have to keep searching and keep thinking positively!!