One week on Fitday

This morning I weighed 260.6. That’s a 2.2 pound loss after one week of counting my calories on fitday.

Not bad but I’m a little bummed. I weighed 259 at some point this week. Don’t know what happpened but I just went right back up to 260 the next day. Still happy with two pounds though. That’s a completely healthy weight loss and I should know that by now.

As for Fitday, I really like it. I thought it would be difficult to keep up. In fact, that’s what has kept me from counting calories all along. It’s not difficult anymore. For the first two days I devoted a LOT of time to that site. I manually entered in the nutritional information of every single food I put in my mouth. Seriously, it seemed like my whole day revolved around looking at labels and typing them down. By day three I found that 90% of the foods I eat were already entered. Every once in a while I’d enter a new food but it wasn’t much of a hassle. By the time I entered yesterday’s entry it took 5 minutes max. Almost everything I eat now is entered onto the site so it’s just a matter of a few clicks. In fact, it’s so easy for me now that my wife decided to go through the hassle of entering her foods and counting calories.

Aside from helping me count my calories and helping me make sure I stay around 3000, an interesting thing about Fitday is the reports. It tells you your break down of carbs, fats and proteins. Last week I ate 40% carbs, 30% fats and 30% fats. Seems reasonable. I also learned that I ate around 225 grams of protein a day. I’d like to eat my body weight in grams of protein but that’s just too difficult right now. As I lose weight I think I can get closer to that goal.

All in all, an interesting little experiment here. I’ll definitely keep it up for a little while longer since it’s so easy at this point. Hopefully I can have some success now and start losing consistently. If I stop losing I”m going to experiment with zig-zaging calories and other things like that.

I feel really good about counting my calories on fitday. It feels like I’m finally doing everything I can to lose weight. If I can stay committed to logging my workouts on this blog and logging my calories on fitday I think 2008 is going to be the year that I get this done. I’m extremely excited.