Day Two: I heart My Fitness Pal

So, I am actually writing for the second day in a row. I'm so proud of myself :) Day one of this weight loss journey was a success! I was given a website: myfitnesspal.com and it is wonderful! You put in your weight and weight goals and such and then it helps you plan meals, plan exercise and you put in what you actually eat/do. You meet people who are there to encourage you and support you. It's where I got the ticker to the right of this, too. I woke up excited to continue with this plan, which is a huge deal since I usually lose motivation very quickly. I set My Fitness Pal as one of my home pages so I that I will actually see it every morning and hopefully it will give me a kick in the butt to keep it up. I'm a dork and like to be able to say that I ate something healthy/did this specific exercise so I'm doing what I should so that I can honestly say that I did. If you add friends, they can see your food diary, so it's a motivation not to eat a ton of junk. It also tells you how many calories you have left if you want to keep up a weight goal. It's very helpful to know if I have the calories left for that yogurt after dinner or if I wasted them. I also like that I have a ticker so that when I weigh in, I can watch the number change. I'm still so excited for this and I'm sorry it's all over the place. I'm hoping to have a more organized feel after this. I have a lot more energy since I'm not crashing after eating chocolate for breakfast or from too much sugar and caffeine in the tea. It's too hot to take the dog for a walk or to cut the grass right now so I'm trying to think of something to do in the house. I guess I could do a workout video. Maybe. That just still feels like I'm exercising and the others don't. And, on a side note (although this entire post has been sporadic), my scale says I've lost 10 pounds since yesterday morning. I think my first reward, after I stick with this for the first month, will be a brand new digital scale that's accurate. We have an analog one and if I'm going to do this right, I want to do it accurately.

Anyway, that's my random, jumbled mess of words for today!

Mandiy