So, I’ve been struggling the past two years or so to keep my weight in order, and as a result gained 35 pounds. (Started at 185 when I started gaining and hit 220 before I finally turned around and headed in the other direction. That is thirty five, right? Suck it, Math! I’m a writer not John Nash!)
Anyway, I was signed up with a personal trainer two days a week, was trying the new weight watchers, the old weight watchers, just to try to get my momentum and my mojo back. For some reason, I just could not get my head around the idea that if I chose to eat that massive piece of cake at ten at night, that I would effing regret it.
All that having been said, I recently discovered the savior that I will blame for any and all success I’ve recently had. (Down from 220 to 208.2. This is progress ladies and gentlemen. The random lady in JCPenney told me so when she overheard me mention the twelve pound loss, so it MUST be true!)
The savior, the thing that I’ve been holding myself accountable to the past few weeks is MyFitnessPal.com. Yeah, there are tons of weight loss sites online that you can indulge in and meander through, and believe me, I’ve signed up for and forgotten about all of them. Yet, MyFitnessPal keeps me coming back. I can tell you exactly why…
Now, to compare it first in the manners it can be compared to other sites is tedious, but it must be done.
First, you enter in your information -height, weight, age, the amount of pounds you want to lose each week. With this info, it gives you your daily caloric goal. Keep to it and you’ll start losing.
On top of this goal it adds a water intake amount and an amount of exercise it thinks you should be getting each week as well, as well as a weigh in option. This helps with accountability, and healthy tendencies.
Then, once you get going, you can search any food in their database from the web, from a smartphone, add it to your daily journal and it keeps track of the leftover calories you have to devour. You punch in food you eat, exercise you do (from walking leisurely to kickboxing, it’s all in there), and you’re on your way, right?
Wrong. Here’s where MyFitnessPal grabbed me by the jugular!
At the end of the day, when you’ve eaten all you’re going to, when you’ve worked out all you plan to, you press the handy dandy “COMPLETE ENTRY” button.
In response, it says something along these lines…
If every day were like today… You’d weigh 189.0 lbs in 5 weeks
I was freakin sold! That right there is what I call moti-freakin-vation! Telling me how much I’ll weigh if I keep it up? Seriously? That’s freakin genius! Not only that, but if you don’t like the outcome, you can add a quick twenty minute walk to your journal, press the button again and see the difference!
That difference is what makes you get up off the couch. That difference is what makes you finsih your journal everyday. That difference is why in an hour I am going to be doing the Kickboxing On Demand video for 40 minutes, followed by 30 minutes of Dance Central.
Hell yeah, I’m a skinny bitch!
