MyFitnessPal App

The MyFitnessPal App lets you track what you eat, exercises, how much water you drink, and more. I've used it in the past to track how many calories I eat in a day. When I used the app regularly last January, I lost weight. With anything, if you get relaxed on something, you lose the consistency. I am reinvigorated to be under 200 pounds by the end of the year, so I know I need to start using MyFitnessPal daily again.

Not all foods/calories have to be entered in manually. There is an option to scan the bar codes of food/packaging, and it'll pull in the data for the calories/serving sizes. From there, you can adjust the serving sizes. If you eat the same food regularly, you can pull in a new day's food/calories from items that were previously logged.

I've talked about setting a standard for spending money on food, and I need to set a standard for how many calories I eat a day. You can see from the app that my "Goal" is 1,840 calories a day. This "Goal" was determined by my current weight, activity level, and goal weight. As I start using this app again, I will stay within the standard of 1,840 calories a day.

Aside from calories, another thing I'll be closely monitoring is how much sodium is in the food I'm eating. I haven't heard of any debates challenging excessive sodium being bad for you. The sodium levels in packaged foods is very high, and it is something I need to keep in check.

I'm slowly working my way back into using this app, and I hope that it'll aid in my weight-loss Missions.

Signed,

Mitch