Mrs. G's Journey to Better Health

Today I did not feel like going out for a walk. I felt like everything is an uphill battle and I can't seem to get any traction. It's hot, my knee is bugging me, I'm not loosing any weight, I'm tired...*sigh* I reluctantly got up and went for my walk in a grumpy mood. It took my a few minutes to find earbuds and sync them to my phone. By this time, it didn't matter, I was going to go for my walk even if I had to drag my feet the whole way. I got my fitness tracker set and hit "go." I didn't know what I wanted to listen to. Music? Not really. I started the next episode of Doug Wood's podcast, but it was over an hour long and I was not going to walk for over an hour. I could start it and finish it later? Nawh. It would leave me with a feeling of not completing something else. Ugh. My goal was a mile. I checked the episode times, scanned my options and decided Rob Du Haime's episode #25 was an acceptable length, 31minutes. On my walk I got to he...

There is a lot going all the time. School, work, kids, holidays, ... and laziness, lack of motivation, procrastination, does not help my weight loss journey either. I think it's time to dust off my LoseIt book and start reading from page 1 again.

SportsLine SX Elite Heart Rate Monitor watch     It is tough to motivate myself to keep track of my caloric intake. It is even tougher to motivate myself to burn more calories than I take in. What I seem to like is gizmos and gadgets. I dug through my drawer and found an old heart rate monitor, put in a new battery, looked on line for the manual, and today I used my new old toy.  My day was spent wearing a Sportline SX Elite Heart Rate Monitor. For 10 hours it tracked my heart rate and how many calories I burned. At a quick glance of my wrist I could tell how many calories I had burned so far. Although I did not feel very active, seeing the caloric counter increase was nice. It seemed to put a little boost in my step to keep moving. I tracked my food using the LoseIt! app. I went over my daily caloric budget by 82 calories. Not too bad for my first day back on my weight loss journey. I tracked my calories burned using my heart rate monitor 2800+ calories. As ...