grrlTravels

p.s.

It's been encouraging to read your resolutions. I feel all trembly and excited to get working on everything. Cool. Thanks so much for sharing.

Yesterday in my haste to post I forgot to mention the Live Strong site. When I was looking for a food tracker/calorie counter for my iPhone I happened upon the Live Strong app. It has a fabulous database that I have stumped less than 5 times in the past 6 months or so. If you do manage to stump it and you have access to the nutritional panel of the item you can submit it. And the site itself is chock full of good information and lots of encouragement.

To track calories or your food intake create a login and then click on "Daily Plate". [The iPhone app is downloadable from the home page.] I personally find the iPhone app slightly easier to use and more attractive than the Web site. But the Web site gives you lots of additional information.

When you search for food, be specific. Don't search for "bread". Search instead for "Panera French bread" or "7 grain bread". Putting in the brand name often helps but sometimes doesn't. If you don't get any results, reflect on your search terms and try try again. When you exercise you can log that too, and if you're counting calories the exercise buys you extra! (Not that I would know anything about exercising solely to get more calories for the day...)

If you have a site or app that you like, let me know. Have a great weekend. Next week I'll be back with a new long-term project and an update on Z.

Posted by grrlTravels at January 15, 2010 2:19 PM