[Today’s run: 6.5 miles in Starkville]
I decided to download the MyFitnessPal app to my cell phone a couple of days ago.
The last time I had any success at losing poundage it was because I used that app to record all of my food intake.
I’ve gotten a bit tired of being my current size, so I am back at it again. Today was Day 2.
The MyFitnessPal app has changed quite a bit. They were bought up by Under Armor along with a few other fitness oriented web sites. The look of the page is much more complex and there are advertisements on it if you don’t buy the “premium” version.
But the food lookup works pretty slick. This morning after the running club run I ate a few things including two Keebler rainbow chip cookies. I poked in Keebler Rainbow Cookies and it popped right up with the nutrition info and I just had to tell it how many I ate (2). And I added my run time and distance and it gave me extra calories credit toward today’s intake.
I’m hoping I can keep this up for awhile. I think I may be aiming a bit high on the calories side, high as in low, trying to go too low. But if I can knock off a few pounds, maybe I can ease it off a little and not go overboard.
A couple of weeks ago I was thinking about a young person I know who has been having a rough time. I don’t really have any way to influence the situation except through prayer and good wishes. I decided to fast for a day and try to remember to meditate on that person when I was prompted to eat. That went OK. I enjoyed my breakfast that next day, that’s for sure.
But then I thought, it wasn’t so bad. I mean, I definitely felt it. I could tell I had much less energy than normal and neither my body nor my brain were working at full capacity. But I didn’t really suffer or anything. So I decided to download MyFitnessPal and try to limit my intake to some reasonable number and see how far I get.
I don’t know if the fasting accomplished anything for my young friend. I hope he/she can see the importance of turning around from some of the poor decisions. And I hope I can do that too.