Okay I work out pretty much and watch what I eat, but regardless since I quit dancing I've been having quite a difficult time keeping off the extra pounds. So I started using one of those online calorie counters/exercise monitors that also links up to my blackberry, and I basically chart all my food/exercise. So far I've lost about 15lbs! What I'm wondering, though, is how camming figures in to calorie-burning activity. Especially if you do it for multiple hours straight.
Up until very recently I was only on NF. I'd like, log in and lay around watching TV, eating, and even sleeping w/my makeup on at times until my phone rang. But since I've been doing chat based sites I'm actually, like, working... Tonight, for example, I worked from 10pm to about 4am. I blogged, took/edited/posted photos, recorded/edited/posted videos, performed a few shows per hour (where I danced around quite a bit), and the rest of the time I was still sitting up in a chair quite active online. It was very different from the sleep-camming I'm used to.
I did this type of thing once before when I did a 2 hour run on MFC, and the next day I was SORE AS HELL, which gets me to thinking... if you cam, and I mean REALLY cam for multiple hours at a time, could it potentially help you to burn calories/lose weight?
I typed "computer/typing" in to the activity/calorie counter in the program I use, and it said at my weight typing burns about 98 calories/hr. Now, I feel like all the crap I was doing was FAR more than just typing, but even leaving it there, for 6 straight extra hours of "typing", I'm burning near 600 extra calories! I mean even if the calorie counter is off some, that seems like quite a bit! Heck even if you only burn 50 extra calories per hour and work 6 hours, that's 300 calories burned. Right?
I'm a bit loopy/tired right now and I really don't know why I'm posting this. I just think it'd be neat if I became a dedicated/hard-working cam girl and lost my post-stripper chubs in the process haha... Sorry for the ramble...



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