Up early

Ok, so why is it that when I'm working I hate getting up before 6am and now that I'm on vacation I have been up before 6am almost every day. Damn internal clocks, now if I can just find the internal snooze.

Ok, up early again today. I am meeting my sisters for breakfast at Arizona Charlies East today. It's the buffet but they don't serve chicken for breakfast so that means oatmeal, my egg white omelette and some fruit. They have one of the smaller buffets in town, but it's not bad for the price. Unfortunately, for breakfast they have all the artery buster foods and little of healthy stuff. That's ok, my three items will be more than enough.

I have been having trouble hitting my target calories that last week. I am supposed to be between 1800 and 2100 calories a day. Here is what I have been hitting.

Monday : 1749
Tuesday : 1600
Wednesday : 1563
Thursday : 1431
Friday : 1544

I use Calorie King software on my PDA to keep track of actual calories. I need to get these up a bit or my weight loss might slow. You'd think that eating less = losing weight faster. But that equation doesn't actually hold true. Eating less = losing weight slower. At my weight, it takes approx 4620 alories (weight times 11) to maintain. So by cutting to 1800 a day I am in a deficit of 2820 calories a day. 2820 x 7 days = 19740. 19740/3500 (calories in 1 pound) = 5.64 pounds lost per week. That's the mathmatics of what I should be losing once I get rid of excess water weight. As you lose weight your base calories per day goes down which also decreses your weight loss, but not by that much.

Well, I guess I should get up, shower and get ready to leave. I think I may go to the movies today, maybe "Over the Hedge" or "X Men." I ordered a copy of "Vegas" on ebay today. Got it for 7 bucks on VHS. I wish it were on DVD, but it's still one of those shows that hasn't oome to dvd. That is one of my favorite old shows. Mainly because I get to see "old" Vegas before the mega-resorts started taking over. Vegas isn't the same since. I like the show too, though they can be a bit corny at times. Rockford files is also one of my favorite 70's shows.