Using FitDay

I'll give credit to Jessi for the idea - I've started using FitDay for my meal and exercise tracking. I love the little charts it creates!

Like her, I will have to tweak the values of different exercises to get the actual calories burned (per my HRM, which I trust more). However, another good benefit of using FitDay is that when I eat foods for which I don't know the calorie count and I guess, the tool makes me actually think through the number of calories I assign to a food. (It uses the formula fat grams * 9 + carb grams * 4 + protein grams * 4 need to equal something close to the total calories I put in.)

My weight this morning was 140 even, and it's Friday so I want to overeat. But yesterday was good, in general I'm on track, and today I'm wearing a size XXL sweater.

Why, you ask? Because I bought it in the girls' department. Not women's - GIRLS! :-) I take some sick pleasure in wearing clothes meant for 12-year-olds.

And while I'm on that subject, how cool is this! I went to Old Navy the other day to buy clothes for Camille (my three-year-old). She's got a long torso but short legs, so for pants I still shop in the toddler section, but for shirts, I can get her extra-smalls from the girls' department. Well, I found this cute black shirt that ties with lace in the middle - and they had an extra-small and an extra-large, so I bought one for each of us! So I can shop in the same department as my three-year-old. So ridiculous, but I think it's cute, too. (Of course, she doesn't want to wear it because it's not pink. Her mother's daughter, I guess!)