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Old October 3rd, 2003, 09:18 PM
Don Libes
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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
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Old October 3rd, 2003, 09:59 PM
Patricia
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in article , Don Libes at
wrote on 10/3/03 4:18 PM:

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.

-----------

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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Old October 4th, 2003, 03:13 AM
Cat
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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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Old October 4th, 2003, 03:35 AM
Jennifer Austin
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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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Old October 4th, 2003, 04:30 AM
Don Libes
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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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Old October 6th, 2003, 02:38 PM
George
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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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Old October 7th, 2003, 07:14 PM
Don Libes
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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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