Monday, January 6, 2014

Happy fucking New Year

I am sitting at six pounds heavier than I was before Thanksgiving. It needs to go.

I downloaded the Lose It app, as that has been the most highly rated that I have seen, and boy is that thing upsetting. To mess around with it and see how it works, I programmed that I want to lose 1 pound per week. So I logged all of my food an exercise (and can I just express how much I love the "barcode scan" feature on the app? That thing finds everything) and I came in at about 1,000 Calories over what it said I should have logged for the week (I went to two Christmas parties last week, which put me over my Calorie limit twice) in order to lose 1 pound (which would be a 3,500 Calorie deficit). By the logic of the app, I should still weigh about what I weighed last week. 

Instead, I am 3 pounds heavier. 

Ugh. 

And I was supposed to be starting school again today, which I was hoping would help with routine/stability/weight loss, but I live in the Midwest, and it is currently 20 below zero (with a wind chill of -40) so school is closed. 

So I am at home, trying to ignore all of the food in my house, and I should be studying. But instead, I think I am going to read some of Wasted because that book always gets me motivated. 
I did well last year. I can do well again this year. 

3 comments:

  1. Those guides never work for me either about how much you can eat to gain, lose, maintain etc. It's so annoying. Well, you know I'm on a mission to lose too. Good luck to us both!

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  2. I tried the Loseit app - but it wasn't for me. It's not an app people use here in the Scandinavia and I couldn't use the scan thingie either cause it just didn't have the product in it's register or something..

    Happy new year hon and GL with your goals.

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  3. Thank you. I missed it here. Enjoying catching up on your posts!

    The holidays are finally over, so you won't have that as an obstacle anymore. I love Wasted, it's my favorite ED book. Lately I've been staying motivated reading Ana Regzig's blog after you referenced it in a post a few months ago.

    Good luck! Hope the weather warms up there sometime soon.

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