My goal is to burn at least 1000 calories..

[Irulan]

Irulan, any suggestions for speeding up the entry of "from scratch" meals? I've downloaded MyFitnessPal, but find myself losing patience with entering recipes. Otherwise, its great!

I found there were a few options. I do agree the first couple of weeks were tedious at times but it's a short curve I think.
1. look for a recipe someone else has done that closely resembles yours. or
look for an ingredient combo that's similar. One example is, I make stir frys a lot. So instead of doing 1 c broccoli, 1 c red pepper and so on, I might look for mix chopped vegs and find something close enough.
2. enter yours - you'll be surprised how easy it is to edit it later for when you make something kind of like it. Example, I do a tomato/veg saute that gets various different things added ( shrimp, poured over pork chops, black beans and some Mexican seasoning) and once its in there, I would just adjust a few ingredients.
3. Use the bar code scanner as much as you can. For example, when I made spaghetti sauce, I'd scan the jar of Classico, scan the can of diced tomatoes, scan the pasta package, scan the Costco Parm/reggio cheese; enter a few chopped vegs in an the meat and good to go.

Once I got the bar code scanner, that was great. I think I only scanned two items in the whole three months that weren't in there already.
After the first couple of weeks, everything I make was pretty much in there. What I had a hard time with was entering restaurant food.