A bad start and a new goal

On the weekend I didn't do any real exercise and I feel a little guilty about that. I should have gone for a walk on Saturday afternoon but I didn't, I spent it on the computer writing on this blog a little and watching YouTube. We didn't go to my Dad's for lunch as he was feeling a little sick with a cold and didn't want to pass it on to us. Instead we went out to the shops and bought a ceiling fan and some other bits for around the house. On the way home we got KFC for lunch and I ate more than I should of and had a can of Pepsi to wash it down with, so not my finest moment.
On Sunday I took the kids to the park with the intention of doing a few laps of it whilst the kids rode their bikes around. I'd decided that morning to take the training wheels off my daughters bike, she was wanting it done but when we got to the park she found it too hard and refused to even try. So in the end I ended up spending most of the time sitting on a bench trying to calm her down and trying to get on the bike to at least try. My fitbit was at home on charge like it is on most Sundays so what few steps I did get in won't have registered.
After leaving the park we still had about 20 minutes before we had to pick my wife up as she was at work so I took the kids through the Macca's drive-through and we each had a McFlurry icecream with mini M&Ms. It tasted so sweet, especially the M&Ms so I'm going to have to work extra hard this week to burn off all the extra calories that I put in to myself over the weekend. I didn't have any beer on Saturday or Sunday so at least that's something.
My fitbit calculates how many calories I burn and I was thinking that it may be a better way of making sure that I continue to lose weight. I did a little reading online and as a guide, to lose 1kg you need to have a calorie deficit of around 7,700 calories. Now I don't count my calories but if I use that as I guide and see how many calories I burned during a week that lost 1kg of weight, it should be a fairly good idea of how many calories I need to burn in an average week to lose weight.
If I go back to August when I lost the most weight, coincidently (or not) that month is the one that I burnt the most calories in. If I look at September, it is only just more than what an average month was before I started trying to lose weight and this month is looking to be about the same. I guessing that might be because it was harder for me to go walking and my fitness wasn't as good so it took less to get my heart beating faster. I'm going to set a new goal for myself today and that goal is to burn an average of 4,600 calories each day.
Last week, I did the most steps I'd done in a long time and three of those days were well over 4.6K in calories burnt however the other days weren't. By setting this goal, I won't be increasing the number of steps I want to make each week over 70,000. Hopefully as my fitness increases it will become easy to maintain over 70,000 steps each week and then it should be easier to start doing additional exercise to get my heart rate up and the calories burnt.

Bomber
not going to the gym, not buying gym equipment