What's (Currently) Working For Me

Hello everyone!  I thought I'd check in and discuss what's going on in my fitness and wellness life right now.

I made the decision a couple of weeks ago that I'm going to workout Monday through Friday.  When trying to figure out a way to track my goal, I stumbled upon the Way of Life app.

They call it the 'ultimate habit building app'.  It's basically an app where you add goals and track them each day.  Right now all I have on there is "exercising".  I figured I'd make this easy on myself until I built up momentum so I define exercise as some kind of physical activity.  Brisk walking works.  Squats, pushups, and crunches work.  As long as it's something.  This app keeps me accountable...if I don't exercise, I have to log a big fat red X for that day.  Not fun.  It also made me realize I missed working out on Tuesdays a lot.  Why?  Because Zaxby's (casual fast food restaurant) gives a discount to employees where I work and I tended to choose that over working out.  So I made a conscious decision not to go there anymore.  Go me!  I also changed my schedule so that I eat part of my lunch at noon and then go workout at 1:00pm so I can watch The Chew while exercising.  Hey, don't hate...it's what gets me through.  :)

Thanks to my sister, I started using Lose It again.

This blog post has a pretty good review with lovely images.  I loved their app when they first started and now that they've made their website more 'social', I've rekindled my relationship with Lose It.  I've tracked my food and exercise for several weeks now and it's all thanks to their challenges.  I'm doing two right now:

1. No Miss November where you aim to log the most days between November 1 and November 30.
2. Holiday Move It & Lose It where you aim to log the most days between October 31 and January 1.

Honestly, I don't think I'd be tracking as well as I am had I not joined these challenges.  I signed up for Weight Watchers a couple of months ago and did I log?  Nope.  Not even knowing I was wasting all that money.  Give me a couple of challenges and some badges and the competitor in me comes out!  I'm kind of scared what will happen once the holidays are over and/or I get really busy.  I'm hoping I will have made tracking such a habit that I continue to do it.  Or that I've seen such great results that I continue to do it.  Only time will tell I suppose.

Unfortunately, When I weighed myself this morning I hadn't lost any weight...but nor had I gained!  I've decided to go another week with what I've been doing and if still no change, I'll mix something up in my diet/exercise routine to see if it helps.  Here it is in all its glory:

There's a two year period where I obviously wasn't using Lose It.  My starting weight was weight gain from right after my wedding when I went crazy with the food and no exercise.

Anyway, that's what's working for me.  Come join the party and be my friend on Lose It!