I was down a pound yesterday, but I'm thinking of stepping up my weigh-ins to once per day just so I can keep track of my water balance and get a more accurate average weight over time. It will hurt the psychological factor, as I'll likely see some gain too throughout the week, but I'll try to make my Tuesday weigh-ins my "true" weight for a week and will be able to contrast and compare better. Who knows, maybe I actually gained a pound this week but had some excess fluid when I weighed-in last week that accounted for my "loss" this week.
Anyway, I too haven't been journaling what I eat enough because my tools suck. I'm currently building an app to keep track of this stuff that works better, but it's slow going with just me on the job, and part time at that.
It's just getting hard to walk enough when it's so friggin' hot outside. When the news warns that going outside could kill you, you tend to want to just crank up the AC and stay indoors.
Daily weigh in? Does this mean you can now weigh yourself at home? If so, bravo. There was a funky $90 scale that I saw that also measures body fat and water in the body. I thought about buying it, but it had all sorts of warnings on it about it not being for use if you are pregnant, have heart problems or have recently showered or are wet/persiring - I guess it sends a mild charage through your body to read these other things? I had a horrified image in my head of my friend, who is both pregnant and with a pacemaker, stepping on the scale, and just, you know ruining her life. I know the odds are pretty low of this happening, but somehow it just scared me.
I've been really good about writing it all down. Fitday helps me a lot (thanks again AD). I felt really guilty when I ate a bunch of pizza last week, but when I put it in to fit day, I realized that it wasn't a total disaster. Even though I did eat more calories and fat than I wanted to that day, I'd still made sensible choices in eating vegetarian pizza, and through the other choices I'd made that day.
Jough, I totally agree on the walking thing - we've been having a drought here in Manitoba, and there have been days where it's been just disgusting outside. Thankfully the Y has their air conditioning cranked and has better cable than we do at home.
Paul, right now in Winnipeg, we have the Fringe Theatre Festival, which happens every year, so I really thought of you when I was at the festival with time to kill yesterday. The Samosa lady and the Gelattie guy, and the Falafel guy were all looking pretty friendly, but I would have eating only out of boredom, not hunger. It was a pretty big triumph for me to recognize the difference and not give in to an urge that had nothing to do with an actual physical need. Thankfully I ran into an old buddy I hadn't seen in four years, and he filled the emotional need for free (and without calories).
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