I am one of those people that need to have everything laid out for me. I have spreadsheets charting my weight loss attempts since 1998. I print them off and put them in a binder. I’m usually pretty good at keeping them up to date for a couple of months and then I fall behind. Eventually I pick it up again. I have two programs I really like for different reasons and I tend to bounce back and forth between them.
One is Diet Power – I like it because I can create recipe’s and print them off showing instructions, nutritional information, etc. It is a nice layout. I also have Fitday for the PC and I can sync it online so that I can enter stuff no matter where I am (work/home). And I really like Fitday’s reports. If I use it consistently I can create some pretty good reports and see how I am doing. The thing I don’t like about it that I seem to like the most about DP is that I can print the day entries including the calendar notes (diary) but I can’t seem to do it in Fitday. I may just be missing it somewhere in here.
So this below chart shows what I have setup for my goal for the next 5 weeks. And at a glance, I certainly did not eat enough protein yesterday and WAY too many carbs. I will be honest here and admit I made some bad carb choices yesterday and today will be much better.
And I am very proud that the alcohol total is a big fat zero :)
I have a bunch of DVD’s and since I am not organized today as for what workout I wanted to do, I put in the Jillian Michaels 30 Day Shred. I did level 1 and with 5lb weights. I hate to admit this but it kicked my butt. I think it has been TOO long since I did a cross training type workout. Your body adjusts to things like walking on a treadmill so I obviously need to kick it up a notch or 10.
After that, I walked on my TreadClimber for another 30 minutes and then stretched this tired ole body. I feel good!
I hope everyone is having a fantastic day and are making good choices. I am going to make better carb choices today than I did yesterday.
ttyl
Sandra
I don't have either of those programs, but I have printed out excel sheets of the time I lost 70+ pounds. That's why I get so frustrated now, as then I lost a lot faster! I try not to look at it.
ReplyDeleteI do keep track of things now, too, in my little spiral. Glad I'm not the only one who keeps that kind of thing!
Good job sandra,
ReplyDeleteI am not organized enough to do spreadsheets...inevitably, I would leave it on the table and someone would spill jam on it and that would be that. I hope your next five weeks goes well, as planned, and you drop the pounds quickly.
It is so nice to see another charter! :-)
ReplyDeleteI love charts like that too but I have to be very careful not to let the numbers overtake me. I've been known to make myself crazy when the numbers are saying something should be happening and it's not. Good luck on making your goals - they are good ones!
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ReplyDeleteI'm sorry I did an oops in explaining my routine. They are actually called chest FLIES. What you do is lie on your back with weights in your hands and lift them above your chest, from there you "fly" the weights down to extend your arms fully out. So it's like your a bird flying only you are lying down...make scense?
Thanks Syl, it was the "vibes" I didn't didn't understand - thought there was some other cool Chest Exercise I could be trying :)
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