Keep on Keeping on.

So, despite being really upset that my scale went up again, I tried not to let it get me down yesterday and decided that I just have to give my body time to adjust. Something's got to give since I stopped eating cookies, and eating out all the time. I am at least down today to what I was on Sunday. I think that yesterday's spike was sodium. I totally forgot that I put a ton of "0 calorie" cheese flavor on some air popped popcorn on Saturday. I looked at it - it's Salt. 1/4 teaspoon has 7% of daily sodium on a 2000 cal diet. Which means I had WAY too much on Saturday.

I ended up doing pretty good yesterday. I came in under 1200. And I exercised on a ski machine for more than an hour - with breaks every 10-15 minutes for pushups, squats, dips and lunges. I am not as sore today as I am after my Jillian Michaels DVDs because she focuses on weights alot and this was 90% cardio.

I have been writing down all of my calories. Way back when I first got skinny I wrote down calories/fat calories/ fat grams for everything ate. At one point I was trying to record Cals, Fat, protein and carbs, but it was too hard and lately I've just been recording calories.

So, after reading Fed Up's blog about her Ipone app "lose it" I found a similar one for my Android phone. "Lose it" isn't available on Android. So instead I found "My Fitness Pal" (it's also free). Which I can record my food, exercise, weight, measurements, and goals in. It keeps track of everything for me so I can see how much sugar, protein etc I am getting. There are a few things about it's functions I'm not in love with - it's hard to move a food from one meal to another, it only has one entry for "snacks" each day, and the exercise calories burned don't match my heart rate monitor so I have to fudge them a little to get an accurate report of calories out. But I LOVE the fact that it has a Barcode scanner. So instead of searching for every food I scan the barcode of what I eat (if it's got one) and the app finds the food, I put in how much I ate of it, and presto-chango there it is! A few things - organics mostly - haven't been in there, but are when I search by typing in the brand name. Once I've picked a food the app remembers it, so I don't have to re-search things every day.

So far I'm digging it. Though I do miss my little notebook of numbers. Probably good thing not to be using it though, what with my "you're starving yourself" co-worker still mouthing off. Now she's got my boss chiming in with things like "as if you really need to work out." Yes, I'm working out to lose weight, but why does it have to be for that? Can't a person work out to be healthy? Whatever. I need a new job anyway - this place is making me cranky.