Today was a great day! I went against my own rule and stepped on the scale again today and I was 175.5, down 1/2 pound from yesterday. I am going to try and stick to weekly weighing though because I don't deal with those little daily fluctuations well. I spent a lot of time logging all of my food in CRON-O-METER today. It's a free download and I believe is intended for people following extremely restricted diets in an effort to prolong their life (way past 100!). It tracks every calorie and micronutrient. It took a lot of time for me to do today because I eat a lot of multi-ingredient foods. My daily smoothie for example includes a mixture of water, spinach, flax seeds, green tea leaves, apple, blueberries and cranberries. I did it for one day because I was interested in tracking more than just calories and seeing were I was at nutritionally. I came out very well with vitamins, minerals. fiber, omega-3, etc. Way too much work though to do every day.
My calories came in at 1340 which is a little lower than where I would like to be. I am hoping that I can lose about 2 pounds per week at around 1400-1500 calories. Today's food is below:
I went out for a bike ride today which was not easy for me to do. I bought a new bike the beginning of April and this is only the third time I have ridden it. I know it's just temporary, but I'm really self conscious riding it on the streets around here. At my current fitness level, I struggle to make it up even not very big hills. My face was so red when I got home today that my neighbor thought I had a bad sunburn, lol. What I need to do is load the bike on the back of my car and take it to one of the trails around here. They are fairly flat and then I can ride longer to start building some strength and endurance. I really have to start worrying less about what people think of me!
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