Counting Calories

I'm not one to count calories (or even look at a scale, the only one I own is my Wii fit), I grew up being taught if those things don't really matter as much as eating healthy and living healthy (it is easy to get hung up on a number and that is what my Mom was trying to help us avoid). Living like that has been good for me, it has helped me feel good about myself regardless of what a scale says, and I enjoy eating but I am smart about it, without counting calories. My feelings on the matter haven't changed but with this week's Challenge to track what you eat for a week, I wanted to find a application (for my ipod touch) to keep track what I ate for me. I ended up finding an awesome one and I wanted to share, it is called My Fitness Pal and it has a ton of awesome features! Including the fact that it has a website, so you can use it even if you don't have an ipod, there is a huge database of different foods and exercise, making it easy and accurate to track everything you eat and do!

I was able to do both challenges, the food diary/calorie counter part of the challenge reiterated to me that all calories are not created equal! Shoot- If I could eat the way that I did last week and still be under my 'allotted' daily calories... somethings not quite right! I think I will stick to tying to eat healthy and not worry too much about calories! Though it was fun to see what everything had in it and I really noticed how eating out has a ton more calories!

(If I had a dog and was skinner this is what I would have looked like as I was walking this week! Except I probably wouldn't have worn heals... or had such large bangs...)

The physical part of the challenge was okay, I did it but it was mostly walking. I didn't have as much time this week to get outside, thats why my workout DVDs work so well for me, when I have a little time I just pop one in... Maybe I need to get a tv for outside :)