Just 4 Today, I’ll drink my fiber twice (YES. done), drink 2 liters of water (about 2/3), walk 3 miles (3415 ), NOT eat between meals & NOT take seconds.
I’ve been working hard behind the scenes (yesterday I got so caught-up in my new project, I didn’t have time to post before I had to run off to work — practically in my pajamas!)
My dad bought me a copy of NutriBase 7, Clinical Edition for my birthday and it arrived on Friday. It works like building blocks. You can identify favorite foods, and create recipes (out of them or any other food) and meals. Or not. It’s just that for the things you do everyday, it’s easier if you bundle them together in a way that makes sense.
Anyway, this program uses a huge database of nutritional information — the USDA, the Canadian Foodlist, restaurant info — and lots more. Plus, I’ve added most of the off-brand stuff that we get at the Aldi Grocery.
You can post Exercises. And Blood Sugar. And Nutrients that aren’t included in the database (like soluable fiber) and other special information (like The Hacker’s Diet Moving Weighted Average)
And there are reports to pull all that information out again.
So far, the Charts aren’t everything I’d want — but I could be wrong. This is a huge program and I’m still getting a handle on it. My hope is that I can export anything I need to Excel and create charts from there if I can’t do it from within the program. But with only a few days worth of data, I’m not going to worry about it yet.
This has become pretty important to me (I’m sure it’s a coincidence, but I’ve lost 2 pounds – finally — since it showed up!) so I’ll tell you more about it as my knowledge grows. So far, I love it!
What are you going to do today?
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Morning KB.
J4T I’ll drink 2 liter of water and as usual keep working on the house.
That new program sounds pretty good. I’m looking forward to see how it works for you.
Its 12 PM and I’ve already eaten my daily calories. I just sprayed an avocado half with Lysol. My Hacker’s Diet graph shows an interesting pattern. On the day I hit my goal weight (125), the trend immediately began going up. This was not visible until now. For the past two weeks, the trend has been flat, which is better than up. I am still 128.5 lbs. I still plan on returning to 125. Not because I look or feel different at 125 lbs, but because I want to understand how to maintain my weight for life. I am attempting to use the Hacker’s Diet Tracker to determine the actual amount of calories I need to exist, which requires logging everything I eat. I am not 100% certain yet, but it looks as though my average metabolic rate WITHOUT dieting is 1400 calories per day. BEFORE, when I was fat, it was 1600 calories per day. I believe this is why I have been having trouble with maintenance. If 1400 is in fact what I burn daily, that is fine with me. It is way less than the average person burns. I will have to adjust to it. I don’t want colleagues and friends thinking that I am anorexic and harassing me when I eat much smaller meals than they do. I know my husband is just trying to be kind but it bothers me when he says: “That is ALL you are eating?” It bothers me even more so people who don’t know me as well say things like that. Oh well. Just have to get used to it. Since 1400 is my actual metabolic rate, I have been trying to eat 1100 per day in order to lose back my extra three pounds. I have been taking multivitamins, calcium, and omega 3-6-9 in case I am not eating enough nutrients. 1100 calories per day really really annoys me.
Hi FamilyMan, I’ve been very consistant about my two liters for a while now. And I think it’s made a BIG difference. I hope you’re having a nice day. And that FMom feels better soon.
Hi Bombshell,
I’m like you — my resting metabolism is a little less than most people. I still am carrying a lot of extra pounds, so it’s a bit more than 1400. But I know from the last couple of months that if I don’t walk close to 6 miles a day, I’m not going to lose weight.
This new software is really helping me stay on track. Mostly because I can quote hard numbers to mister about how much we’re eating. And since he’s the cook — that’s having an impact.
Have you seen this?
I’ve been pretty consistent about the water too, and I can tell a difference too.
The day has been going pretty good and FMom said she is feeling better. Thanks.
I totally know how you felt as you did that.
A couple of weeks ago (on trash day) I buried a box of candy that I got for my birthday in the trash. And left for work.
Last night, mister asked me where it was because he wanted a piece (that’s how long he thinks an opened box of chocolate could last — can you imagine?) I told him I had thrown it away 2 weeks before (and I can assure you it wouldn’t have been around by last night in any case. Not that I told him that)
And he was heartbroken! I almost felt bad. But I couldn’t let myself eat that whole box of chocolate. I just couldn’t. I might by HIM a box for himself. But, it’ll be around for months if I do.
A very stressful day with both work and chaotic family stuff going on since early this morning. Managed to keep the food on track well, though, and actually walked home from work per my plan.
I carried my backpack, rather than rolling it. The thing seems to have weighed about 25 pounds, so I get “extra credit” for that when calculating WW points. I figure it at least cancelled out the little piece of birthday cake I had after lunch this afternoon.
Walking TO work just didn’t seem like something I could do. Too gloomy outside, and just plain too tired from trying to catch up on housework after being out of town since Thursday night. Odd how that works…
I seem to have done ok over the weekend, in spite of some less than stellar food choices. No gain, and maybe a slight loss. I missed the Sunday check-in, however. Hope to get to a meeting tomorrow evening.
Hi catdog, it’s good to see you! I miss you when you’re travelling. That idea of walking to or from work is good — I did it for years and it really worked (can’t do it now, I work 15 miles from home)
We don’t have Sunday Weight Watchers meetings here. I wish they did.