I ate something yesterday and went to My Fitness Pal to enter it and was frustrated that I could not find an exact match. I came to MFP after a short stint with my Lose It app on my iPhone, and before that I was logging over at the Daily Plate at Livestrong.com. There was another one in the mix, too, but the name escapes me.
I have found myself on occasion floating over to Livestrong because their food database is unmatched. They just have everything! But back when I was with them, their interface was a bit clumsy and I had the Blackberry app and could never get that to work. So, fickle as I was, I left.
Yesterday following my moment of MFP frustration, I looked and read about Livestrong’s new iPhone app (new to me, anyway). I forked over the $2.99 for the app, and re-logged on to Livestrong. If you know me, you know that I’m a bit OCD when it comes to logging or tracking food. I don’t know why this is – especially since I’m now following a low-carb lifestyle and should throw tracking by the wayside. But that’s just not me. I want data, spreadsheets, and information. I want to have something to shove in your face when I am stuck on a plateau to say, “HA! See? I SHOULD be losing weight!”
So I’m going to log in both places for a while to determine if there’s a big discrepancy between the two, which I don’t expect. More importantly, to discover which one I like better. So stay tuned.
Meanwhile, you might notice my new addition on the right - my weight log. Whew – I was not sure if or when I’d be ready to post this, but there it is. I remember vividly confessing to my co-workers David & Shelley, back in April or so that I weighed 191 pounds. They politely scoffed and said there was NO WAY I weighed that much! Love them (liars!) but indeed I was and I thought that now that I was a good 10 pounds lower than that, it was time to be transparent. So there it is. I’m itching to show a 170-something over there!
Saturday, September 4, 2010
Wednesday, September 1, 2010
Long-time-no-post
Yes, thanks for asking, I’m still here! It’s not that I haven’t thought about posting, it’s just that my summer totally got away from me and I never really felt like I had any earth-shattering info to pass along. Sorry, not much of an excuse!
So, I’ve meandered through my summer doing some low-carb living. I haven’t made a lot of progress. I see that on August 6th I was 183.6 and today I am 182.2. That’s rather depressing to me. Yes, it’s going in the right direction but why so slow? I am still netting about 35-45 carbs per day, and my calorie intake is anywhere from 1350 to 1650 per day, depending on what’s going on (and what I eat!!) I’m wondering if I eat too often, or eat too much, or eat too many carbs. (You can click on My Fitness Pal link to the right to see what’s going down the hatch).
I have said “no” to a lot of foods I would have liked to have this summer. Ice cream in particular, though I have started eating Breyer’s Carb Smart ice cream and it’s pretty good. It’s really good with a couple of teaspoons of natural peanut butter and a Tbls of Chocoperfection chips melted and poured over top! On my birthday, three weeks ago, I skipped dinner and went to Cold Stone Creamery and had the most flippin’ wonderful bowl of the Real Thing! It was fabulous and worth it. I only have a birthday every other year, after all!
Last week we went to the fair. “The Fair” is the Washington County Fair in Easton, NY for us. I spent my childhood at that fair and even took my goats and rabbits there when I was 12 with 4-H. Lots of memories in that place and 98% of them are
of food. I kept it light all day and splurged on French fries, soft ice cream and sugar fritters. None of it was worth it except the sugar fritter! The sugar fritter shack has been there since before my time and is run by the fine ladies of the Greenwich United Methodist Church and they fry hunks of bread dough and roll them in sugar and charge all of a dollar for them. Seriously, I wish now that I’d ditched the fries and ice cream and just eaten 3 or 4 more fritters! They were THAT good!
After I ingested all of those carbs, not only did I not feel so good, but my legs felt like lead! I warned my husband that he might have to carry me back to the Jeep, which was parked in the furthest spot from the gate! I definitely had a carb-hangover, which was a great reminder of why I’m trying to live this low-carb life!
So other than those two, albeit significant, carb blow-outs, I’ve been tried and true. Perhaps this slow weight loss is to teach me patience and perseverance! If so, I’d better learn them quick because I’m becoming a bit frustrated. More as it comes to me….thanks for stopping by.
So, I’ve meandered through my summer doing some low-carb living. I haven’t made a lot of progress. I see that on August 6th I was 183.6 and today I am 182.2. That’s rather depressing to me. Yes, it’s going in the right direction but why so slow? I am still netting about 35-45 carbs per day, and my calorie intake is anywhere from 1350 to 1650 per day, depending on what’s going on (and what I eat!!) I’m wondering if I eat too often, or eat too much, or eat too many carbs. (You can click on My Fitness Pal link to the right to see what’s going down the hatch).
I have said “no” to a lot of foods I would have liked to have this summer. Ice cream in particular, though I have started eating Breyer’s Carb Smart ice cream and it’s pretty good. It’s really good with a couple of teaspoons of natural peanut butter and a Tbls of Chocoperfection chips melted and poured over top! On my birthday, three weeks ago, I skipped dinner and went to Cold Stone Creamery and had the most flippin’ wonderful bowl of the Real Thing! It was fabulous and worth it. I only have a birthday every other year, after all!Last week we went to the fair. “The Fair” is the Washington County Fair in Easton, NY for us. I spent my childhood at that fair and even took my goats and rabbits there when I was 12 with 4-H. Lots of memories in that place and 98% of them are
of food. I kept it light all day and splurged on French fries, soft ice cream and sugar fritters. None of it was worth it except the sugar fritter! The sugar fritter shack has been there since before my time and is run by the fine ladies of the Greenwich United Methodist Church and they fry hunks of bread dough and roll them in sugar and charge all of a dollar for them. Seriously, I wish now that I’d ditched the fries and ice cream and just eaten 3 or 4 more fritters! They were THAT good!After I ingested all of those carbs, not only did I not feel so good, but my legs felt like lead! I warned my husband that he might have to carry me back to the Jeep, which was parked in the furthest spot from the gate! I definitely had a carb-hangover, which was a great reminder of why I’m trying to live this low-carb life!
So other than those two, albeit significant, carb blow-outs, I’ve been tried and true. Perhaps this slow weight loss is to teach me patience and perseverance! If so, I’d better learn them quick because I’m becoming a bit frustrated. More as it comes to me….thanks for stopping by.
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