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four months of fitday
This graph shows the past four months of my weight as tracked by
fitday. I've basically been forced to lose weight - due to knee problems, it's either lose weight or stop running - and the choice between those two is easy. http://www.libes.com/don/fitday/4months.gif I've actually used fitday off and on for 2 years but if I showed you the 2 year graph, you'd see just a bunch of useless yoyoing as I held my breath from day to day to see if I could stick it out another day. That's changed. Now my diet has become easy. What I've come to realize is that fitday (or any such system) is only half the solution. The other half has to come from within - you have to be committed enough to make a proper diet a must-do. And every person is different as to where they get that motivation or if they can get it at all. I told my dad about fitday. He wants to lose weight and is enough of a techie to use fitday and he gave it a try but he won't stick with it; He talks about losing weight all the time but he doesn't want to lose weight enough. Until he wants to so badly that he will actually change his behavior, fitday or any other tools, diets, or any other things I could say are not going to work. Since coming to this realization, I've become a lot less fervent in my glorification of calorie counting tools. I don't berate my dad over his dietary choices any more either. Thanksgiving should go a lot more smoothly this year. Don 200/165/155 |
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Me, too, Patricia. I don't use Fitday (except now and then to look up some
calorie counts), but I believe I'm doing the same thing as you in a way. I'm tracking what I eat and calories in a food journal. It helps me a lot, because I have a tendency to stop paying attention to what I'm eating and I could easily gain back the weight I've lost. The food journal keeps me focused. Cat What you say is true...Fitday IS only part of the equation. BUT.... It kept me in touch with the reality of what I was doing (or not doing) and was a great way for me to see in a very graphic way .. I was indeed on my way down. Bless the person that conceived this idea and made it available. Patricia |
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"Cat" wrote in message .net... Me, too, Patricia. I don't use Fitday (except now and then to look up some calorie counts), but I believe I'm doing the same thing as you in a way. I'm tracking what I eat and calories in a food journal. It helps me a lot, because I have a tendency to stop paying attention to what I'm eating and I could easily gain back the weight I've lost. The food journal keeps me focused. Cat Journaling is so important to loss and to maintenance for that reason - keeping you focused and accountable. One of the people in my group said she's less likely to cheat knowing that she has to write it down in her log (which no one sees but her). My dad is doing WW (-70 lbs so far so I guess it runs in the family) and said that he got better at logging when he reached a plateau and it helped him figure out what was wrong and he has been doing great since. Jenn |
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four months of fitday
I only use fitday in the morning and afternoon. Once I can see how
things stack up, I know what kind of dinner I can/should have and don't bother to enter it. (Which is nice because dinners tend to be more complex to enter.) At this point, I could do without fitday entirely - indeed, you can see that in the middle of that graph there's a section that's a straight line for two weeks and then it jumps down to indicate continued weight loss. That's when I took a vacation without net access. But I was able to continue my diet just fine during that time. Fitday simply makes it easier (and a little fun too in a geeky sort of way). Don Cat wrote: Me, too, Patricia. I don't use Fitday (except now and then to look up some calorie counts), but I believe I'm doing the same thing as you in a way. I'm tracking what I eat and calories in a food journal. It helps me a lot, because I have a tendency to stop paying attention to what I'm eating and I could easily gain back the weight I've lost. The food journal keeps me focused. Cat What you say is true...Fitday IS only part of the equation. BUT.... It kept me in touch with the reality of what I was doing (or not doing) and was a great way for me to see in a very graphic way .. I was indeed on my way down. Bless the person that conceived this idea and made it available. Patricia |
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On Fri, 03 Oct 2003 23:30:06 -0400, Don Libes wrote:
I only use fitday in the morning and afternoon. Once I can see how things stack up, I know what kind of dinner I can/should have and don't bother to enter it. (Which is nice because dinners tend to be more complex to enter.) At this point, I could do without fitday entirely - indeed, you can see that in the middle of that graph there's a section that's a straight line for two weeks and then it jumps down to indicate continued weight loss. That's when I took a vacation without net access. But I was able to continue my diet just fine during that time. Fitday simply makes it easier (and a little fun too in a geeky sort of way). You might consider Lifeform... great program, design the graphs you want and track all kinds of stuff, food, exercise, bloodwork, weight, measurements, you name it. It's not free... but it's not expensive either. And available whether you are online or not. Plus, you can easily copy previous meals from your log into the current day. And then edit them if needed, so that makes entering things easier. I've also found that the BMR calculations seem to be fairly on target, at least for me. hjttp://www.fitnesoft.com I believe there is a free trial version you can download and try before you buy. 262/239.0/200 first goal |
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George writes:
You might consider Lifeform... great program, design the graphs you want and track all kinds of stuff, food, exercise, bloodwork, weight, measurements, you name it. It's not free... but it's not expensive either. And available whether you are online or not. Plus, you can easily copy previous meals from your log into the current day. And then edit them if needed, so that makes entering things easier. I've also found that the BMR calculations seem to be fairly on target, at least for me. hjttp://www.fitnesoft.com I believe there is a free trial version you can download and try before you buy. I downloaded lifeform from fitnesoft and it does seem like a nice product. However, I called the support line and the person who answered the phone said it did NOT have an online mode and she went on to say that she didn't recommend using it from two computers (which is the way I would use it) because people seem to run into database corruption nor does it run on the Mac (again, the way I'd use it). She also went on to say that product is no longer being developed and the food database had not been updated for about 5 years. Don |
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