Want to lose weight?
I’ve spent many months considering the problem of weight loss. Losing heart is the biggest problem people face, when trying to lose weight.
I have a solution or two to this problem. The biggest problem to not keeping to the weight loss path is not being able to see the truth. What is it every big business uses to determine their successes and failures? They use log books, charts, and graphs.
I recently found an app that tracks what you eat: showing calorie intake, nutrition value, and weight loss. If you fix your own food, you can enter the ingredients. It even allows you to pull up the menus from a lot of restaurants. I was already losing weight when I started using it, but being able to look back at the times when I was losing weight and being able to compare them to the times I was staying steady or gaining weight, has helped me through some rough times.
Now, there are probably other apps that do the same thing… possibly even better. This is the one I found and there are some things that I would do to upgrade the app but it’s a good start.
Try it out, you have nothing to lose but weight: My Fitness Pal.
If you do, I recommend that you NOT try to diet for a full month, while using the app. This will give you what scientists call a control, which is an unaltered example for the purpose of comparison. If you start feeling… less than optimal, I recommend leveling out for perhaps a week or two (not trying to lose or gain weight).
What started me losing weight? Increasing my intake of vegetation to 2/3 of my diet being fruits and vegetables. This literally changed me from a couch-potato, who had difficulty walking around in a store, into someone who could, at will