Okay so...last week I discovered Sparkpeople.com. An awesome FREE website that includes nutrition tracking with menus, fitness tracking with online exercise videos & printable workout guides. It will track the number of glasses of water you drink each day, your total calories consumed & worked off (I haven't found just general everyday activity calories burned, but deliberate calories you can enter). DID I MENTION IT'S FREE????
Reasons Why I Love Sparkpeople.com
1. It's FREE!!!!
2. Meal/menu planning....all I have to do is print the grocery list, mark off what I already have, shop & then prepare & cook. Oh yeah, I can choose different things, search recipes, never cook something I wouldn't eat etc.
3. It helps me set practical goals that will provoke a lifestyle change!
4. They also have free apps for my Droid phone!!!
5. It's easy to use.
6. It's practical.
7. It's FREE!!!
OK. So, the first week was shaky, basically my laptop cord broke & then when my battery died I couldn't use it anymore...gotta order a new cord! Anyway, all I really accomplished the first week was I gave up drinking soda. I haven't even missed it. Just from reading some articles on sparkpeople.com I got to thinking about what I consumed & decided that soda was the least productive calories I took in. I am not saying I will never drink it ever again...but who knows. As for getting started, I needed to be drinking more water & this was an easy fix.
This week however, I decided I am going to walk every night after the boys are in bed. So, Monday = Day 1 + good friends = 2.5 miles walking at the track...oooh & we even did one set of stairs! Then I came home, logged onto sparkpeople.com & planned our meals for the week & made my grocery list (my printer is broken). Woke up early (for me), went to the grocery store before the boys woke up. Bad side is I spent almost double my grocery budget for the week! YIKES!!! Maybe it will get better....anyway! I some breakfast & then made some muffins. They smell & look amazing! They are Applesauce Oatmeal Muffins. And as much as I would love to dive into one, I will wait until breakfast for tomorrow! Then...if they taste as good as they look & smell I will share the recipe & nutrition info!
So, I LOVE sparkpeople.com
Check it out!!!
me too! It's amazing... I love that you can pretty much always find someone else out there in almost the exact same position as you and use them as your buddy. It's also kind of nice that you don't know the people for some reasons too. yay!
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