well, after talkin' with my wife, who actually reads up on this shit, i'm gonna shift to 20-30 mins of high-interval training and axe the elliptical for awhile, and see what happens. experimenting is fun!
alright!
To expound on the futility of counting calories, you would also need to, just for example:
- figure out what your calorie expenditure was at rest, at a normal temperature, in normal clothing;
- count every step you walked that day
- count everything you picked up
- count every time you whacked off or had sex
- what time you got up and what time you went to bed, i.e. how many hours you were awake vs sleeping
- how much time you spent tapping your foot or other twitchy actions
....and on and on and on.
The point is that your energy levels directly affect your activity levels in many ways, many of which are totally unnoticeable to you and almost impossible to account for. (and of course, your activity levels in turn affect your energy levels...)
The one thing counting calories (and that eliptical is probably grossly inaccurate anyway...) does is make you think 'oh, I can eat more today 'cause i worked out).
Not to get all hippy dippy you but I think maybe you need to learn to listen to your body a bit more rather than doing math.
