In honor of our upcoming wedding, I decided that although I am not starting my "wedding diet/exercise regime" it would be a good idea to try and not get any more squishy before that time comes. Right now, with moving around, I don't have a gym membership because I can't find a gym that is everywhere that I am (24 hour fitness is in CA, but not GA; LA fitness is in Atlanta, GA, but not Augusta, GA; neither of them were in Massachusetts and so on) and since I have no idea where I will be spending my last 22-26 weeks of school - I am not up for paying for a membership that won't be used! So the working out will have to wait for now but in the meantime..
I discovered the greatest thing in the whole world. I was sitting at the library last week eating my lunch when I was searching through "Top Free Apps" on my phone and saw "myfitnesspal" -- it had great (and lots of them) reviews so I thought I'd download it because, hey, it was free! Turns out - best free app I have ever "purchased!"
This thing has almost every single food you can think of already available for you to choose and if it doesn't have something - it is super easy to add. Japanese Katsu Curry from Tin Drum just happened to be one thing it didn't have (although it DID have many other of their dishes) so I went online to the Tin Drum site and added it myself - easy peasy!
You start with creating your profile .. how much do you weigh now? how much do you want to weigh? how many pounds do you want to lose/week? how tall are you? what is your usual activity level? etc..
Then it gives you your "GOAL CALORIES" .. you add your exercise (it even had "walking, 3.0 mph, moderate pace; walking dog" - wonderful!) and logs all your exercise too. (Now I need one of those calorie counters for when I DO start back in the gym!!!)
My first day, and I absolutely HATE to admit this, I went over by 1522 calories! We had pork tacos (which I honestly didn't think were THAT bad) and chips and guacamole (oops) for dinner and my yummy breakfast of cereal + 2% milk + banana was over 600 calories - WTF?! Screw you blueberry almond crunch!
Yesterday, and every day this week, I have been UNDER my allowed calories. I am super proud of myself and although I am not "on my wedding diet" I am trying to take care of myself and I feel pretty awesome not eating double what I am allowed per day! It gives you little projections at the end of every day about if you "ate like you did today.. this is how much you'd weigh in 5 weeks." Like I said, PRETTY AWESOME! This girls' #1 WORLDS BIGGEST FEAR? NOT BEING ABLE TO ZIP MY DRESS AT MY FIRST FITTING (well, that is #2, DAY OF is most definitely #1).
So here is a little sneak peak at what I had yesterday! (I did so well I even got to treat myself to a homemade strawberry shortcake!)
YAY MYFITNESSPAL!
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I love that app! I used it when I was losing weight pre-pregnancy. I loved seeing the calories burned after working out and lost 12 pounds in 2 weeks. I will definitely be using it after baby girl gets here!
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