[Today’s run: 6.5 miles in Starkville]<\/p>\n
I decided to download the MyFitnessPal app to my cell phone a couple of days ago.<\/p>\n
The last time I had any success at losing poundage it was because I used that app to record all of my food intake.<\/p>\n
I’ve gotten a bit tired of being my current size, so I am back at it again.\u00a0 Today was Day 2.<\/p>\n
The MyFitnessPal app has changed quite a bit.\u00a0 They were bought up by Under Armor along with a few other fitness oriented web sites.\u00a0 The look of the page is much more complex and there are advertisements on it if you don’t buy the “premium” version.<\/p>\n
But the food lookup works pretty slick.\u00a0 This morning after the running club run I ate a few things including two Keebler rainbow chip cookies.\u00a0 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).\u00a0 And I added my run time and distance and it gave me extra calories credit toward today’s intake.<\/p>\n
I’m hoping I can keep this up for awhile.\u00a0 I think I may be aiming a bit high on the calories side, high as in low, trying to go too low.\u00a0 But if I can knock off a few pounds, maybe I can ease it off a little and not go overboard.<\/p>\n
A couple of weeks ago I was thinking about a young person I know who has been having a rough time.\u00a0 I don’t really have any way to influence the situation except through prayer and good wishes.\u00a0 I decided to fast for a day and try to remember to meditate on that person when I was prompted to eat.\u00a0 That went OK.\u00a0 I enjoyed my breakfast that next day, that’s for sure.<\/p>\n
But then I thought, it wasn’t so bad.\u00a0 I mean, I definitely felt it.\u00a0 I could tell I had much less energy than normal and neither my body nor my brain were working at full capacity.\u00a0 But I didn’t really suffer or anything.\u00a0 So I decided to download MyFitnessPal and try to limit my intake to some reasonable number and see how far I get.<\/p>\n
I don’t know if the fasting accomplished anything for my young friend.\u00a0 I hope he\/she can see the importance of turning around from some of the poor decisions.\u00a0 And I hope I can do that too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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