So glad, because I have really been conservative with estimating calories. I use the Lose It app for tracking calories and exercise. I freaking love it. Here's why:
- It has a whole database of foods, even from restaurants, and not to mention a barcode scanner! Scan the barcode on the package and bam - all the nutrition data is added and you just pick how many servings you had.
- You can create your own custom foods with calorie and nutrient data.
- It has a nutrient tracking option, so you know how many grams of fat, protein, fiber, carbs, sugar, etc. you are getting daily.
- There is a database for exercises and you can also create custom ones. You can customize the length, intensity, and type of your exercise. Then it will estimate how many calories your exercise has burned and subtract them from your daily total.
- You can track your weight loss over time and it will adjust what your new calorie intake should be.
- It will tell you if you are over or under your calories for the day. Since I cook all my own dinners/most lunches, my strategy for that is to count and estimate the calories based on the ingredients (that is if I am not using a recipe where I already know the calories) and then just make a custom food called "300 calorie meal" or whatever. That way I don't have to enter in every single recipe I ever use. And as I said I'm pretty conservative with this so I always over estimate. The drawback to this is you don't get an accurate picture of nutrients. But for me that's ok. With the amount of different things I cook, it would be insane for me to enter every single one into my phone!
- Knowing how many calories you can eat really makes a difference - makes you think twice about eating those chips at night!
- There are a bunch of other cool features that I don't even use. You can share your progress with friends and all that good stuff
Today was a yoga day. I am doing the P90X yoga which is 90 minutes. Thats a long freaking time. And it's hard. I am not new to yoga but it has been awhile - still, I think I did a decent job. I had a really calm mind today so I was very focused on what I was doing and it seemed to help alot. When I did yoga in the past I always had trouble with the breathing - remembering to breathe, make the breaths long and deep, and timing them with the movements. But if I do my best to concentrate on it I tend to do a much better job. I need to focus on breathing and study all the poses to make sure my form is correct. And I need to not kick my overly curious cat when I'm coming out of runners pose :)
My body feels a bit weak and tired right now, but at the same time I feel great. I feel very loose and stretched out. Evidently this yoga class burns a ton of calories too. So I think I'll be doing this 1-2 times a week. It'll keep me in good shape for running and help build up my core.
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