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Originally Posted by Your Highness
I wish -oh- how I wish - I could eat those calories each day. But, I'd have a heckuva time running more than 3 miles at a time, too, so perhaps the ease at which you expend energy has much more to do with body type in relation to metabolism, compared to say, Bytsi or I? What can I read to help me fill in these blanks?
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Ah but is it really so phisiologically different or is it a different mindset? I read somewhere that we are all within a few hundred calories a day of each other by nature. If I remember correctly Bytsi burned 2300 cals or better on her days at Disneyland putting her at only 100 cals away from my normal daily burn. And if I read her log correctly that was a pretty active day for her.
I am high energy by practice and perhaps also by nature but not only by nature. I actively try to bring NEAT in my life. I park in the back of parking lots, walk back and forth briskly to the kitchen at work many times during the day, walk briskly at lunch and do meetings on the walk many times too. One of the best things I did recently was that I got rid of my TV. No more laying around for an hour or even hours in the evening. Instead I go outside and walk or garden or practice my guitar or do chores... If I play on the internet I usually am cooking or doing something else (AKA moving).
I pace when I am at work and at my desk a lot of times. I stand or pace in classes and lectures. Part of this is my type A personality and part of this is me being mindful of making my body move. It's weird.... If I allow my body to be still, it wants to just lie around all day long. If I make it move, it wants to move more. It seems to want more of what I give it so I am mindful to give it movement.
Post your question on the Fat Loss forum and see what Leigh and other more knowledgable peeps have to say for best resources on the subject. I don't know. I only know that the burn rate that you have is uniquely yours and you can affect it by changing your activity. Beyond that it is a balance of activity and food and finding the balance that you can live with while still realizing your goals.