Spark People

I've been tracking my food intake and my calories burned on sparkpeople.com for just over a week now. I love this free website - it allows me to track my food, it has just about any food and recipe you can imagine with the calories already calculated for you. If you want to add some food that isn't on there, there is a spot where you can add it in. You can have foods that are kept in your favorites so you don't have to look them up all the time. You can add your own recipes, it's pretty amazing.

I don't know all there is to know about this site yet - like if it has meal plans that you can follow, but I am going to try and find out. I love that I can also track my fitness. I can input my gym workouts, and my soccer games and it calculates the calories burned for you. I'm not sure how accurate that part is - I am hoping it's right and it should be, because why would they say it was higher? But my fitness goal for this week, determined on how much I weigh, was 770 and like I said in my last post, I went way over that in just 2 days. That kind of bugs me - I know that I exercise a lot, I know it, I do it, I track it...and yet I still don't lose weight. Bummer. But it's nice to see that I am burning loads of calories and it does make me feel good knowing that I at least have that part in my routine. Exercise is not something that I have to worry about - I actually like to do it and I have been consistent with that for 8 years now. I just get more and more exercise all the time.

I had my cheat day on Saturday - it was soooooo good! I did fine for breakfast and lunch, but at supper we went to the Bavarian Inn in Bragg Creek and had schnitzel. It was worth every single calorie! I also had ice cream 2 hours later for dessert. I am not going to go half assed on my cheat day!

We had to eat out today and I did ok - not as good as I would have had we had a little more time and didn't go to DQ, but it was ok. I guess I'll get my veg intake with supper tonight. I shared a meal with my daughter and that helps a lot right off the top.

I'm still doing just fine, I did really well all week and I am still down 5 pounds. I have a game tonight and will get tons of calories burnt off. Sometimes after a game I used to eat because I thought I was hungry. Now I don't at all. It helps that I have late games and all I want to do it go home and go to bed, but I also know that I'm not hungry. I drink at least 2 bottles of water each game and I don't feel hungry - I used to use the games as an excuse to eat, but now I just decide that I don't need to eat.

I am going to get even better this week - work out some meal plans and get the right groceries. It feels nice to be in the 2nd week and not feel like giving up.