Taking stock
Not long ago I wrote about getting back on track with my health and weight loss habits, and I wanted to check in with myself to see how I'm doing. Accountability is a wonderful thing so I'm sharing it with everyone to read.
Since recommitting to the plan, which I believe was November 2nd, I haven't missed a day of logging and all entries to this point have been marked as complete. This is excellent! That was the goal of this phase of the process.
Some of the entries are estimates, but I did my best to over-estimate calories. It's better to err on the side of being over my goal than to think I'm under and end up eating too much anyway. If it turns out I didn't eat as much as I thought, the scale will eventually reveal the truth.
A recent addition to Crononeter is the ability to log your food with photos. It's appropriately called "photo log"; take a picture of your meal, and the app will scan the contents and approximate what's on your plate with matching entries from the food database1. I haven't used it often, but it was helpful for estimating the calorie content of the turkey soup my mother-in-law made.
I've added data to a table below the post to show how I'm doing. I feel it's more useful than writing a paragraph full of numbers and trying to explain what XYZ means. Suffice it to say, I'm pleased with my results and I feel ready to move on to phase 2: paying attention to the numbers. And not only the overall calorie total, but my "macros". I've been in the calorie counting game long enough that I need to evolve and learn how to eat "properly" to lower my cholesterol numbers.
In addition to the food logging goal, I had a secondary goal of getting back to my nighttime flossing & brushing routine. I have been doing that every night this week, but I can't recall if I was diligent about it every night for the last two weeks. I should create a tracking chart to keep track; food logging is easy, because I have an app that can show me specifics. I rely on memory for flossing.
A negative number in the calories column means I was under my calorie goal; a positive number means I was overbudget. Numbers go to November 12th because this post is being published Friday Nov 13th.
| Date | Calories +/- | Morning Weight |
|---|---|---|
| 11-02 | -326 | 252.4 |
| 11-03 | +125 | 251.3 |
| 11-04 | -10 | 249.8 |
| 11-05 | +108 | 249.6 |
| 11-06 | -245 | 249.8 |
| 11-07 | +523 | N/A |
| 11-08 | -349 | 249.1 |
| 11-09 | -199 | 247.4 |
| 11-10 | +800 | 247.4 |
| 11-11 | +929 | 247.4 |
| 11-12 | +272 | 250.7 |
This morning's scale reading: 248.7
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I know that Cronometer has added some AI elements to the user interface and functionality, and I'm OK with that. It serves a useful purpose while not bending my data into content somewhere else (that I know of).↩