Saturday, February 1, 2014

A Big Achievement!

In addition to the 11.8 pounds that I'm down in 1 month, I had another major success today!

We took my 2-year old son to see Sesame Street Live tonight.  The show started at 5:30, so we had to leave at 4:45, which meant we didn't have time to eat dinner before we left.  We didn't get out of there til 7:00, so Louie suggested we stop at McDonalds after.  I immediately took out my phone and brought up My Fitness Pal.  I planned to have a 6-piece chicken nugget and small fries.  When I told Louie, he suggested that we get the 10 piece nugget meal and split it.  So that's what we did!  I'm still a little hungry but not starving, and it's bed time anyway.  But just the principal that I ate McDonalds and still kept within my calorie goal...that is pretty exciting!

I really like My Fitness Pal.  I can keep track of how many calories I'm eating, how many I'm using for exercise, general nutrition, what I do for exercise, water consumption, notes..and it's not very time consuming.  Plus I can scan the bar codes of foods and it will bring it up with the nutrition info.  If I want to add it to a meal, I can do that easily.  I've rarely had a food that the bar code couldn't find!

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