So I am experimenting with loseit.com and fatsecret.com for tracking food and exercise. Each has slightly different features, but fatsecret seems to have sync problems with my android phone which is annoying enough to overshadow the nicer interface. I really liked the detailed nutrient breakdown on fitday but otherwise it was kindof old-fashioned and the ads slowed it down.
I am working from home all of this month which is both good and bad. My office is in my attic, so I still have a little bit of the feeling of going to work. I climb the stairs and stay up here for most of the day. The kitchen is far enough away that I am not popping up for a snack every 15 minutes.
On the other hand it is a bit lonely and I am getting tired of spending the days in my pjs. Maybe I need to schedule errands of some sort first thing in the morning so I make myself presentable.
I have been spending a little bit of time on life organization. You know, all that scarey, depressing stuff like setting up a budget and cleaning out closets.It is really not much fun when you are in the middle but the results are satisfying. I found a new website called mint.com which lets you manage your finances in one place. I have accounts and credit cards at two banks and sometimes it is difficult to keep track of things. Since I am trying to decrease my debt load this is an experiment to see if tracking things helps. I have to say that strategy doesn’t seem to have made much difference on the fat-control side of things.
Weight 189.2 continued puzzlement
calories yesterday 2071 109% of goal
water, yes, vitamins, yes, sleep no, exercise no
Weight 192 - up 3 lbs overnight. I just do not understand the scale, I truly don’t.
Calories yesterday: 2038 109% of goal
exercise - nope
water yes, vitamins, yes, sleep yes
Happy New Year to all!
I am starting 2012 with lots of water and fruit. Also vitamins.
Calories yesterday: didn’t track
Exercise: nope, blizzarding outside, movies and fireplace inside
Vitamins: yes Water: yes Sleep: yes
calories yesterday 2 378. Due to a night out and a few drinks - no bar food though, a small victory.
exercise: nope
water: lots
vitamins: yes
Spent most of the day tidying the house. Not ready to take the holiday decorations down yet, I will save that for next weekend. Besides it is bad luck to take the tree down before the new year.
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Last year over the holidays I was moving and renovating a house for rental, I actually backed out of my xmas with family because I had to have that place ready by Dec 30. Christmas day I was painting, I think. It was horrible and Sailorboy saved the day by installing a sink and toilet for me or I would never have made the deadline. This year I was at my parents home with siblings and children but due to certain family strains it was a tough few days followed by a terrible drive home on bad bad winter roads.
Tonight I am relaxing. I am alone, I am puttering around, not accomplishing anything very important. I am not going to worry about it at all. I am going to go to bed early and get a good night’s sleep and face life in the morning. Maybe I will even read for a while. Like, a book. Not a website.
calories net: yesterday 2046 - still too high but at least not from sugar
exercise: nope, a 12 hour drive instead thanks to winter highway conditions
I had dinner with Sons before we all headed off in different directions. I discovered too late that fatsecret has restaurant menu items as well in the calorie counter. That chicken breast at Montanas had 810 calories. What do you have to do to a chicken breast to achieve that? At least I had them replace the rice with extra broccoli.
Also, did NOT buy any snack food at any gas station. Until last night I had been averaging somewhere around 500 awful calories per road trip ( 2 a week). Not only useless food but my vehicle looks like a rolling trash can when I get home.
aacckkkk!!! I am out of coffee!
Today is the last day of my xmas sugar binge. I am done, with a (known) record of 2,900 calories, most of the excess from blueberry pie, oatmeal cookies, ice cream and homemade candies. Yes, all in one day. I feel sick, in more ways than one. I will weigh myself Thurs morning at home but honestly I am expecting the number to be terribly bad.
I think this is my bottom (no pun intended). I have already set up a new food logging system, called, ironically, fatsecret, on my phone so I will have a more accurate picture. It doesn’t have the full nutrition analysis that fitday has but I already know my vitamin weak spots and will restart the supplements to offset them. It seems easier to use - fitday never came out with an android app and the ipad one was wonky.
Before we left for the family homestead last week Son #2 helped me move some furniture around so the office/workout space is almost set and I will finish that up on Friday when I am back at my house. With the dog injured the long walks, at least with him, are out of the question. I have found almost all the exercise dvds I bought a couple of years ago and the mini dvd player and will begin working my way through them starting Friday. I can only wear about 5 outfits in my now too-small extensive wardrobe and I can’t afford to buy a whole set of even bigger clothes. Also the jumpy legs syndrome, plus hot flashes, plus being out-of-breath…this is not how I want to live. Big yuck.
Mostly I cannot stand the thought of being even fatter than I am now when I turn 50. I feel like if that happens, from then on I will just keep expanding until I die. I want to be the fabulous sexy 50 year old, not the marshmallow who can’t climb the stairs and needs to take a handful of pills because she can’t stay away from the sugar. I want to be turning heads for the right reasons. So, time is running out and I need to stop looking in the mirror with rose-coloured glasses and make an honest evaluation.
calories yesterday 2120
exercise YES - a short hike in the wilderness park, embarrassing how quickly I was out of breath but very beautiful
