3500

Half way through and we are still looking good. Just wanted to remind everyone of some things Orlando said to us our first night. It takes burning 3500 calories to lose one pound. We have to burn 3500 in excess of what we eat to be able to lose that one pound. When broken down that is only 500 calories a day or 30-45 minutes of intense cardio activities a day. To get to 2 pounds a week it is easiest to cut 500 calories from your daily intake as well as burn 500 calories. The weight loss is simple math, the rest is a little harder. I have an article published with www.livestrong.com titled How much should I exercise to lose weight. Feel free to take a look at that for more specific information.
Keep up the good work.

Great tracking website

Hi all,

I found a great website for tracking your nutrition and calories. http://www.sparkpeople.com/
This is a very user friendly website. I played around with it this weekend. Terri Jo has also used it and recommends it.
I have never used a more easy food tracker to enter my food and calories. It is just hard to be honest about the actual portions I eat. :) It will total the calories, protein and fats for you so you can scroll to the bottom of the page and see what you have left for the day.
Entering the workout stuff is easy. I cannot find anything for Dragon Boating but I would use Kayaking for regular practices and maybe vigorous rowing for our race weekends.
Interesting point I found for me is that our race weekends we normaly burn around 300 calories with our races and warm up before hand yet, for me I eat around 3000 calories. Not great for the fitness goals. I will post this link as one of the main websites to visit on the right hand side of this site if you aren't checking things out right now. Get all your information in order now though. Start tracking your diet to see where you are at and what will have to change by the time we start our contest. :)