{"id":32303,"date":"2012-07-11T08:35:56","date_gmt":"2012-07-11T15:35:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/?p=32303"},"modified":"2012-07-11T06:37:23","modified_gmt":"2012-07-11T13:37:23","slug":"how-do-you-track","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/?p=32303","title":{"rendered":"How Do You Track?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Being accountable, even only to yourself, is how you stay on the path to weight loss and successful maintenance. It’s a very different beast to kind of “count\/guess” in your head and to actually\u00a0write it down.\u00a0<\/em>Seeing it in black and white can often be the shock of reality that is needed. At least, it was for me.<\/p>\n

If you need to catch up on some old posts on how to lose weight, here are some links:<\/p>\n

Week One<\/a>,\u00a0Week One Check In<\/a><\/p>\n

Week Two<\/a>\u00a0,\u00a0Week Two Check In<\/a><\/p>\n

Week Three<\/a><\/p>\n

Week Four<\/a><\/p>\n

Week Five<\/a><\/p>\n

Five Truths of Weight Loss<\/a><\/p>\n

Let’s get down to the nitty-gritty. How do I track my food and fitness? Do I track every day? Yes, nearly every day. Every once in awhile I take a few days off from counting, sometimes when I’m on vacation I take a few days off but not too many. It’s been awhile since I’ve taken a break. Sometimes our brain just needs a break!<\/a><\/p>\n

Tracking Fitness<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n

I see people on Twitter\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0posing this question often: how do you track your workouts? When I’m in the gym lifting weights, I see a lot of the serious people with a little journal keeping track of what they’re doing. I’m incredibly impressed that they can do this. It lasts about a week for me. I just didn’t want to track which machines I used, how much weight I lifted, etc. (Don’t tell Suzanne<\/a>!)<\/p>\n

I *do* however keep track of mileage for running and biking. I use simple Excel spreadsheets, nothing fancy, and just keep a log there. It helps a lot when I am training for an event. I keep track of my individual mileage as well as my weekly total.<\/p>\n

Tracking Food<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n

When I first started counting my calories I wrote it down on paper in a little journal. Not very high-tech. Eventually I got an iPhone and started exploring the apps that are available out there. My favorite is by far the Cronometer<\/a> because of the in-depth analysis it gives me.<\/p>\n

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I want to make sure I am doing the right things, eating the things my body NEEDS and kind of assess what I’m eating too much of (um…sugar, carbs…dammit….). The Cronometer gives me good feedback for that.<\/p>\n

Eating out at restaurants is one of my weak points and I’m sure you guys struggle with that, too. It’s difficult to go to a restaurant and stay on a plan when you have no idea how many calories are in something. Some of those weight loss apps have restaurant information. Check it out.<\/p>\n

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The single biggest factor in keeping the weight off is TRACKING. Keeping track of my food has helped me so so much I cannot even stress that enough. It has to be done consistently to work, too. It’s not like tracking food one or two days a week will do the trick. In order for a lifestyle change to be effective and\u00a0stick<\/strong>, it needs to be a healthy habit!<\/p>\n

QUESTION: How do you track everything?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Being accountable, even only to yourself, is how you stay on the path to weight loss and successful maintenance. It’s a very different beast to kind of “count\/guess” in your head and to actually\u00a0write it down.\u00a0Seeing it in black and white can often be the shock of reality that is needed. At least, it was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[55,60,5436,101,104,1816,105,106,107,2663,1452,152,154,193,194,247,1,298,3372],"tags":[2349,8599,496,5588,6127,585,6124,8630,2031,6125,3166,8662,8688,1824,6126,6128,8758,4454],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32303"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32303"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32599,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32303\/revisions\/32599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}