My Fitness Pal

Tippity tap tap...is this mic on??  I'm glad to know that Dana and I are doing good so far!  Way to go, D!!How about everyone else?  I know, we all lead busy lives, don't we!?!  Just a few words though, would be nice to know how it's going! (and to know that you are reading along!)

Anyway, I promised a post on this awesome app/website.  You should really check it out.  I know some of you already use it.  In fact, Betty and Holly showed it to me!

Nothing drives me further away from a diet program than when I have to keep a food journal or counting my calories!  Let me tell you, this takes all of the pain away!  If you have a smart phone, (droid or iphone) you can get the app My Fitness Pal or you can check out their website here.  I haven't actually spent anytime on the website but I use my app ALL of the time!

First, you put in your height, weight, and your goal weight and it keeps it in a chart for your viewing pleasure.  It's so satisfying to watch that line go down, down, down!  Then it computes for you the amount of calories you should be intaking daily.  Then throughout the day you add what you've put down your trap.  They have a place for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and snacks.  They have almost any type of food and its nutritional information that you can think of.  I've never not been able to find what I ate on there, even restaraunts.  There is also a place to log your exercise which it then subtracts the calories burned from the calories consumed.  I mean rocket science people! 

One more cool thing you can do on the phone app is if you have a product wrapper you can scan the barcode and it enters it in for you!!  Ah, technology!

I'm sure it does a million other things but this is the part I use it for.  It's amazing!  Check it out!

Don't forget to email me Saturday with your first weigh-in!!