New App

I found a new app this weekend that I think I'll find useful (and maybe you will too). It's called FoodTrackerPro. It allows you to track your food consumption by food groups and also has a nice serving size page for each food group with lots of examples. I tried to meet all of my goals yesterday and found myself ridiculously full after lunch and my snack. Need to learn to space things out a little I guess. My mom wants me to help her out cause she's signing up for Weight Watchers. I just cancelled our accounts. Lol. I'll still help her, cause it's a great program, I just got bored with it. Plus, I can do really well on that program, but that doesn't mean I'm eating well. I can eat/drink half of my points in 100 calorie snacks and beer if I want to. Not cool. That's why I like this app cause it's helping me focus on what's important. And after that day of being really full, I can adjust it to my size portions :-) Cause let's face it, no one my size needs to eat a whole can of vegetables in one sitting! I'm feeling so much better than I have in a long time (cause of various things I won't post here) and I hope it continues the more I strive to eat better and get more active. I know it won't hurt!

Boredom

Story of my life when it comes to dieting. And once again I come to the conclusion that I hate dieting and just want to change and be better. Which means getting active. So now I'm back to the pedometer. I absolutely loved the idea of Fitbit and came very close to buying one since it was on sale on Amazon yesterday. But after reading the reviews, decided against it. Sounds like it is a great idea in concept but they just haven't figured out the kinks yet. And I've also had lots of trouble finding the battery to replace in my pedometer. So I just bought a pedometer app for my iPod :-) Ahh technology, what would we do without you? As of right now, I have taken 2414 steps. Almost a quarter of my goal of 10,000 steps (seems to be the standard when you look up anything about pedometers). Shows me just how lazy I've been. I bought the iTreadmill app ($1.99) and it is quite slick. Lots of customization and I especially love the auto pause/start feature. When it senses you've stopped, it pauses it. And it has its own screen lock so it'll keep running in your pocket all day long. Seems to not be a big drain on the battery either, which I was worried about.

Just in case you haven't heard of fitbit:

http://www.fitbit.com/product

The biggest draw of it for me, other than the obvious pedometer features, was actually that it monitors your sleep patterns. I'd be very interested to see what that is for me.