One Twenty Five

Did y’know this is the first time in my life I’m actually using “calorie counting” as my method of losing weight? Considering I’ve been trying to lose weight since I was 11 years old (true story), I find this a little odd as “calorie counting” seems the obvious way, especially for me - someone who believes calories-consumed simply must be less than calories-used. 

I suppose I’ve never tried calorie counting before because I’m a lazy person by nature (hello Mr. Couch, mama loves you soooo much. SO MUCH.). The mere thought of “calorie counting” sounds like so much work (SO MUCH WORK. OHMYGOD HERNIA COMING ON.).

And! how the hell am I supposed to know how many calories are in the random piece of free delicious cake aunt Lucy baked? Exactly. I always figured “calorie counting” was too much effort and well, impossible. Thus, meh - I tossed that method aside and tried nearly everything else in the book.

(Things I’ve tried: High-Protein, Low-Carbs, No-Carbs, Smoothie-diets, Atkins, South-Beach, Weight-Watchers, Paleo, Gluten-Free, Dairy-Free, Jenny-Craig, Dr.-B., Cabbage-diet, Eat-Clean-Diet, Amputation Diet <- nearly!)

BUT-BUT-BUT.

Cue modern technology. I’m looking at you iPhone and Google (mama loves you guys too).

And, cue the Lose It app. Everything I need in the palm of my hand to shed the lard, look sexilicious next bathing suit season and run marathons in speedy (for me) times.

You guys, I lurrrrveeee it. And it’s FREE. And it’s made for stupid people (ie. me)

See? So easy.

But the beauty of this app is inputting the food. It’s even somewhat fun (did I honestly just say that?) and makes me want to input everything and record my calorie intake (I know, I know, as Uncle Joey would say, Cut. It. Out!)

They’ve thought of everything too. You can look up restaurants, scan bar codes, or input your own food (I added my mom’s curry to it), which means all my but I don’t know how many calories that has! thoughts are put to rest, because if all else fails you can make quite the educated guess.

And of course, it lets you input exercise too (However, please note I actually have a personal policy never to increase my calories because of exercise (unless it’s a 20 mile+ run).

And, it also gets a gold star for tracking your weight loss progress for you.

Also. Can we please not mention my insane weight gain? Ithankyouinadvance. Oh! and-and-and, I tried on the pants (these babies) I hiked to Base Camp in today and it was TERRIBLE. Like, ohmygod-how-did-this-happen? terrible! They didn’t do up. At all.

But, in other news… Day Two of operation Twenty One Days was awesome (see next post for proof please).