Fitness Apps

Fitness Apps are making it much easier to keep track of how well I am doing on my diet!!! I am loving the new Fitness app I just downloaded, MyFitnessPal. It scans the bar codes of foods I eat and keeps up with the amount of calories I have had. I also have an app, Noom, that uses GPS to track how long, how far, and how fast I walk. It also keeps up with how many calories I burned during the workout. These apps also keep track of my weight loss. So today, I had a pretty good day. Here is the scoop....

Calories: 1,300
Exercise: Walked 1 hour
Calories burned:  410
Water: Only 12 ounces (I know! I will do better tomorrow)

55 points WOW

I realize I haven't posted in a while. I have got to get better a that, but I have been pretty busy. I started my new job last week, which I love. Then, I had a pretty busy weekend. Brennen's birthday party Friday night, girl's night Saturday night, and I ended the weekend with the lovely stomach virus. :( I need to get back to posting everyday and also posting my calories, exercise, etc. I am getting excited about my diet again. This warm weather has made me realize that summer is around the corner and with it comes swimsuit weather. This realization has renewed my willpower. :) So, get ready for the weight to start falling off again. :) Weekly weigh ins will be returning next Monday. Oh, and if your wondering why the title of my post is 55 points WOW, did you know that a single serving of cheese fries at The Outback is 55 Weight Watcher Points!!! Well, neither did I until after I ate them! :( I am not doing WWs but I do know that is not good for a diet. Lesson learned. I won't be making that mistake again.

Getting Back on Track

I am finally getting back on track. For anyone who has ever dieted, you know how hard it is to get back on track. So I am happy to say, I had a much better day today. I consumed about 1,300 calories and walked 4 miles. I also started a new job today, which I am so excited about!!! I am now a 6th grade teacher aide at Central. It is going to be great experience for me. I am praying that next year I will get a job as an elementary teacher with a classroom of my own. Central has great lunches, but I am going to try to take my lunch everyday so that I stay within my daily calorie range. Tomorrow, I am going to take a bowl of multi grain cheerios and a banana. I really hope that the slumps are over and I can stay on track now.

In a Slump!!

Okay, confession time! This will be my first post in a while. My computer has had some sort of virus the past few weeks. I think I finally fixed it today. Honestly though, I could have still been blogging using my phone. I just haven't!!! I don't really know why. I am beating myself up a little bit (actually A LOT) today. I worked so hard to lose weight from mid-July until Thanksgiving. I did such a good job, but since then I just haven't stuck with it. I have had a few good weeks here and there, but for the most part I just haven't tried. I started Biggest Loser and really thought it would get me motivated again, but I have actually gained weight since I started!!! I haven't been exercising and I have been eating much more than I should!!! I am slowly watching the scales go up instead of down and it is very depressing (which causes me to eat more)!! Why is that? I have also made some very difficult decisions in my life recently, and I tend to eat more when I am going through rough patches. Why couldn't I be one of those people who find it difficult to eat when life gets hard? My goal to get in those "dream jeans" and that cute bathing suit by summer is getting further away. I have got to snap out of this slump!!! I am just disgusted when I think of where I could be right now if I had kept it up the past 3 months. I would be soooo much closer to my goal!!! When I started this blog I gave myself a year to get where I wanted to be - from FAT to Fabulous. I have got to get back on track or that will not happen. I need some motivation!!!