by Dave on March 10, 2008
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Today I talk about two free websites that I just got turned on to (wish I knew about these before I spent money on the other software titles).
The first one is www.sparkpeople.com and this site lets you do EVERYTHING. Track your food, your workouts, calories, birthdays, shopping lists, and more. It also has recipes, motivation, and wellness areas. Again, it does just about everything. It’s free. It does have advertising on the site, and if you do sign up for the emails, those have a fair amount of advertising in them as well (but you don’t have to sign up for these). HEY IT’S FREE. You can see in the image to the left the advertising on top, and the square advertising on the right side. I can tolertate it (especially if you are on a budget).
The second one is traineo.com this is a much simpler system. It lets you "Guestimate" how many calories you consumed, and it allows you to track other items (measurements, sleep, etc). It is simpler (and thus takes less time to learn). It did have one feature that Spark People didn’t have, and that was you could enter a mentor or partner and it would email them your progress on a weekly basis. What a great way to keep you accountable.
So the traineo site is easier to learn. This doesn’t mean the Spark People Site is hard. In fact, the Spark People site has a decent amount of help and it doesn’t take long to catch on. Unless you hate advertisements, the Spark People site is really powerful.
I’ve created Spark People"Logical Weight Loss" team
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by Dave on February 13, 2008
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I’m using the Vidaone software, and I like it because I can exercise with a hear rate monitor, and when I’m done I download the exercise information into my software (and creates a graph of my hear rate during the exercise). I’m sure I could look at my heart rate monitor and it would tell me the calories (and in the end isn’t that what I’m really interested in?). So I can see where people may go, “By the time you download, etc, wouldn’t it be the same time as entering the workout and putting in the calories burned?” Hmm.. you might have a point. I’ll let you know as I’m going to do both software for a bit so I can compare apples to apples.
As I mentioned in the blog, I have a Omron HBF-500 on the way (so that should be fun).
My problem today is I have been putting myself last, and staying up very late and working on projects. Then I don’t get enough sleep and when that happens you lose the will to fight. The strength to make the right choices, and for me to exercise. However, I did re-measure myself and I’ve lost a few inches on my belly, my chest went up, and my arms and thighs went up (so I’m building muscle). This might explain while the weight is dripping off instead of falling off.
The key is to not give up. If I am building muscle that means burning fat will be even easier in the future if I just keep doing it. Am I sad that I’m not “on track” with my original goal? Sure. However, I’m still pointed in the right direction all I have to do is push.
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by Dave on February 7, 2008
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I was watching one of those “Geezer and the Blond” morning shows and they did an investigative report on the top 5 diet pills (that sold 160 million last year).
#5 Slimquick is the same as drinking 5 cups of coffee. Hey if you want to find out if you have a mild heart problem here is an easy (and dangerous) way to find out.
#4 Zantex-3 More stimulants. The equivalent of 10 cups of coffee
#3 Realacore says that if you reduce stress you reduce your weight. Did you know that exercise reduces stress, and reduces weight? Realacore also has a mild anti-depressant. Did you know that exercise is an anti depressant?
#2 Hydroxy cut – According to the doctor who was on the panel, this is not good for diabetics, and may be linked to dimentia. Once again, we have gobs of stimulants in the drug.
#1 Alli Our favorite “Fecal Urgency” tablet. This product does not have stimulants. But it does stimulate you. According the research their website stated to bring a change of pants to work with you. As crazy as this sounds 82.4 million dollars of this stuff was sold.
THE LOGICAL TRUTH
If you take these (especially those with stimulants) and you lose weight you will gain all the weight back. Why? Because your heart is going ZZZZZZZZEEEEEEEEEEEE! when you are on it, and BBBBWWWWWOOOWW when its not. So you will not be burning calories, and you will gain it all back. Don’t waste your money. Just get on that treadmill, or whatever you are using,,, and exercise.
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