Last week on Sunday I started up my regular exercising again. Hadn't exercised regularly since my shoulder surgery in April. I just started with walking/running on the treadmill. While I did feel my endurance growing and I had lost 2 pounds I didn't think it would be enough for me to exercise alone.
For several years I have been turned off by the idea of calorie counting. I thought it would be too much work. Then on Sunday night I found this great website that tells you how many calories you should have a day based on your weight and what your goal is- to lose weight, stay the same, or gain weight. The site also tracks your exercise activities. It looked like fun so I decided I'd try it.
I have been tracking calories for 4 days now and I've lost a total of 6 pounds in the last 12 days. (In all fairness I was having my lady cycle so that could be where a few of the pounds came from.) The good thing about tracking calories is that I have to think before I put anything into my mouth. Will I want to enter this into the food journal? Will this put me over the top? It has really helped me see how much I was eating. I didn't think I was eating too much but after seeing the journal I think I was eating double the calories I should eat. Crazy.
Another great website for runners, joggers, walkers, bikers, stationary bikers, eliptical users, etc. is runkeeper.com. It tracks your distances, calories burned, average speed, etc. My Mom, sisters, & I are on that site. Seeing them exercising is keeping me motivated.
Anyway, if you already watch what you eat or count calories then never mind. But if you are like me trying to lose weight on exercise alone then you should give it a shot.
If I lose ONE more pound then I will be the lowest weight since giving birth to my last child. :) lol. That's not saying much but still it's a number I haven't seen since I was pregnant.
My small goal is to lose 27 more pounds. (what I weighed when I got pregnant with #4)
My big goal is to lose 52 more pounds. (what I weighed when I got married.)
1 comment:
That sounds like a great website, Amy! I use sparkpeople to do the same thing, and I love it. It makes it so easy. I still have to faithfully measure everything and truthfully record what I'm eating. Weight loss is HARD WORK! Sometimes I feel like I need a break, but I have too far to go for that, and a short break would for sure result in more pounds to lose! UGH!
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