Holy Cow!!!

So...I was looking at my diet, and thinking about what I was going to eat to night...stressed out a bit that I was going to go over my preferred caloric intake for the day...
Then I thought...
Hmm...

I wonder how many calories i SHOULD be eating.
Because this whole time, I've been going on an estimation I got from the brief time i was in the biggest loser club...According to them, keeping a diet of 1400-1700 calories seemed to be the average. So I'm over here thinking that is what I should be doing...
And so I have been. But according to the plan, when I get home tonight, I'm going to have ended up eating around 1800. So I got all stressed wondering what I should cut out...

Then I thought..Whats the big deal?! I'm going to be getting up to run really early in the morning...I should be allowed to eat an extra 100 calories...geesh...
So I decided i would go online somewhere and find out how many OTHER people think I should have. My first stop was beginnertriathlete.com. Because I love them.
I get on one thread and someone is saying they used a calculator and found that during training they were burning around 3800 calories a day. And to lose weight they needed to cut it down to 3300..
I was like WHAT?! 3k+?!?!
So I had to know where this calculator was...
I mean...3k!!
So I found one.
I found several actually, and they all told me the same thing....That I was burning around 3700 calories a day!!! WHAT THE WORLD!!!!
I'm about 1000 calories off from where I should be. ESPECIALLY since I'll be really picking up the running next week going up to four miles during the week and 8 on the weekend...
I'm REALLY going to need those calories!! Plus, if you short yourself too many calories, then you'll start burning muscle, and it gets terribly bad for you. 500 is really all you should short yourself

HOLY CRAP..
what an enlightening moment..
Now I have to reconsider my whole plan!!!
What the crap...
Where am I going to fit in all these calories? I already feel full a LOT...Holy crap...

have I said holy crap enough?!

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