The fitbit side effect

I want to do a one-year study of how our lives are affected in a positive way by some of the electronics we choose to wear and use. I have selected fitbit as the company I prefer to use for a couple of reasons.

The first reason is because I have had a fitbit for many years and they were one of the first to come out with a economical and reliable device. I started with the fit one and have now upgraded to the fitness surge and their scale.

I also feel my fitness pal is a very good choice as food tracker because they have a large database and their daily login of food items is pretty easy. It is very hard and discouraging when you try to log food items and there is nothing in the database. At that point you are building their database with your food items which takes a lot of time. I do eat a lot of homemade foods so that is where you run into a lot of your tracking problems because you are guessing on portion sizes and a few other things to just get it done. For example beef stew could be one thing to one person and something else to another, depending on how thick or thin the gravy is can make a big difference in the calories.


I have used other Internet sites like sparks people, which I do like but you have to make a choice and so I picked my fitness pal. I just completed a challenge with my fitness pal and maybe that's one of the reasons I prefer it because they do have some extra items linked with it I enjoy. Other sites also have these challenges but you have to pick so this is what I did.

We need to talk about Internet communities because they are very important in our success at weight loss and health management. I have used a couple of the communities and have enjoyed them but as trends change people pick different things for different reasons. I met a lot of very nice people on sparks people and if I ever have a question on something I asked the community because most of the time somebody has started a thread on it.

Jillian Michaels can a coupon for her fit fusion so I signed up for a couple of months on her on-demand workout channel. Since then I have found a couple other on-demand that I might like better. On-demand is an interesting thing because you can sign up for a month and then switch to a different one. This is a good alternative to buying DVDs that you may or may not like. I have signed up for the beach body spray trial thinking I would like it and it just wasn't for me. The biggest reason I say this is because I own a couple of the beach bodies DVDs and I didn't want to pay for them twice.. I do like Charlene DVDs and the 21 day fix they are both good. The one you should pick is the one you're going to use so it is worthwhile to do a 30 day trial.

So over the weekend I did do my first livestream on Facebook and I going to put a link to them on the next blog I have started so you can refer to them. I will try to do my best but remember I have a desk job during the day and video technology is not an area of my expertise.

To sum this up the whole experiment will be on using the 27 concepts and what happens if you truly stick to them for a year. So in every experiment you have to have an objective, a control, a hypotenuse and probably something else I don't remember. So your this past year I stayed pretty much the same weight and body fat over the year by keeping a pretty good watch on what I eat and working out 0 to 3 times a week. Our hypotenuse is going to be if we give up sugar the boot and work out a little bit more we can drop the 10 pounds I would like to get rid of.

I need to go out and get some shoveling done so I can get to work. I will try to post on a consistent basis but as we know computer work is a sitdown and does take time. Follow me also on my Instant Graham chatthefat and let's see how I do.

Lets do some math

So you start with a 8 oz bag of cheese.  Put it on the scale 8.28 so .28 is the bag 

You had a salad out of the cheese already on day 1 and used 2.43 oz of cheese and logged it as 2 1/2 oz on food log

So you are starting with day 2.  This is what you are starting with. should be the same as the finish from yesterday unless you have co-workers that buy the same brand as you and grabbed yours by mistake.  You do not have to log what they eat but please note name on bag.  This all has something to do with the amount of peanut butter I was going through.

5.85 - 3.17 = 2.68  or just 2.5  If your tracker lets you I would put in 2.68 x 1 oz servings

I will enjoy my lunch, and log it into myfitnesspal.  This is the easiest way to measure amount used or eaten

 

Myfitnesspal challenge

I started this challenge on Monday Oct 17th.  It is a team challenge.  Minutes of working out counts as miles to walk around the world.  I tell you the  people that set up some of these challenges really put some work into them so if you sign up be ready to follow through on someones hard One of the things we had to do was a drum challenge.  Look this up on U-tube.  Before I knew it 30 min was up.

As you see you can improvise with things.  this is my workout area.  The pole is nit for pole dancing, it really helps hole our house up. Cant be moved so I kind of worked around it.  I will let you know how the challenge goes.  I did a couple more U-tubes.  There are a lot of workouts on U-tube you just have to look.  Let me know if you are also doing a group challenge and how it is going.  Also if you learn something new.

This challenge is really fun.  I tell you there is a lot of work that went into it.  Sometimes the creators of these challenges just need buddies with their own weight loss.  Remember to give them feed back and thank them for their hard work.

Step it up America Challenge

I joined this challenge thinking it would force me to walk more, get more steps in and just motivate me more.  Well I am not really excited about their website and it all proves how hard it is to set something like this up.  Maybe this is another thing that is wrong with diets.  We have expectations that the diet doesn't fulfill.  I need to say it here that I know no words on paper about a eating plan is going to suck the fat off your but.

If you want health your going to have to do the work.  I have asked it before, what art you willing to do to achieve the body you want.  I am going to try to add more pictures to my blog.
I am also going to pick some things from pintrest  to eat.

What you didn't eat

Why don't we get credit for the things we didn't eat.  In a way we do.  What happens when you don't eat cake??  Your teeth thank you to start with.  It doesn't always show up on the scale as a loss but it may save you from a gain.  As we make choices everyday as to what we eat and how we spend our days it's not always something that shows up on the scale.  The closer we get to our goals the cleaner we need to eat.  At one weight, skipping a meal or getting sick over the weekend may produce a loss but the closer you are to goal you realize how important it was to workout and strength train to maintain muscle.  The goal of chatthefat is to maintain maximum health.  The "skinny fat" is not a goal.  No one is going to raise a flag because you did a pass on something or made a good choice but when you put all those good things together you will be surprised at the questions.  When others ask you how you did you you can think of all those thinks you didn't eat and then your but will thank you along with your heart.  When people say you are deprived they forget there is a limit.  You need to deprive your body of the toxins sugar causes, the side effects of deep fried foods, simple carbs and the list goes on.  Remember the 80/20 rule so if you want something special please pick carefully.  You get 1 so are you going to waste it on something that rates a 5 on the 1-10 scale.
Here's to healthy eating

What is next in my life as a diet coach and New York Trip

So what is next?  You lost weight and you just have this new life with this healthier body that you are just so excited to share with the world.  Is there a next step or is this why people fall back into old habits.  We have all heard the side effect of the biggest loser diet and now have this huge fear that we will all fall into that trap, relax and lets research it.  As you know I love to test out these diets on myself and report what happens.

I keep coming beck to the 27 concepts.  I hat to talk to my mom the other day about my work and who I follow in the diet and cancer world.  I think I have to order the food revolution.  What is truly in our food?
In the beginning of October I got back to the 27 concepts.  Back to eating high nutrition, think before you eat, and really give it an honest effort to working out.  I did sign up for Fitfusion.  So far I have done 1.5 workouts.  I need to set some limits like, do 10 workouts or I can't renew the next month.  I was at the gym tonight and got those 2 miles done.

It is so easy to fall back into old habits.  I can think of a whole list of excuses and they are all true.
1.  Other people eat fast food for dinner and live.  It's fast and cheap.  Answer; some die
2.  I don't like water and diet soda is the same.  Wrong
3.  I don't have time.  Neither do I.
4.  I don't like veggies.  OK you got me here.  I love salads and other veggies.
5.  I have a family to cool for.  So you deprive your family nutrition.
6. I don't have time to learn about nutrition.  I have to watch Kim K. Learn to multi task or turn kim off! Your health is more important.
7. I'm at goal weight so I am done.  Health has no finish line.

I am doing a Instagram of some of the things I eat to keep up my health.  I do love salad and eat a salad almost everyday for lunch at work.  I will try to post more pictures.

We went to Boston and ate lobster as much as we could.  I never get lobster so when in boston eat the good stuff.  Here in WI I eat different items.  Person I was traveling with doesn't eat meat except seafood so plan was set.  How did we do it??  We ordered two sides or 1 main item and a side and split it.  Here are some of the things we ate.  I remained the same weight  due to our eating plan and a lot of walking.  There was no real reason to take a cab if we could walk.  We picked a hotel so we could walk and that was the plan.

80/20 rule

Pervention had an articular about this http://www.prevention.com/weight-loss/weight-loss-80-percent-diet-and-20-percent-exercise?cid=NL_EUSD_-_091216_WeightLossFraction_hd&utm_source=PVN07&utm_medium=email&smartcode=YN_0000161752_0001569508  This is one of my  27 rules I talked about and follow.  The important thing is that the 80% is high nutrition.  Make sure it's not just calories you are counting but nutrition.