Last week’s weight: 173.4
This week’s weight: 173.8

Change this week: +.4
Total weight lost:  36.2 lbs!

Well, I didn’t have the best week food or calorie-wise so I knew I might gain a little this week.  While it’s always a little disappointing to see the number going up instead of down, I’m choosing to focus on the total weight lost number and that number makes me happy.

I switched up the way I log my calories in the middle of the week this week- I was using a bodybugg(I’ve had it for forever and I found it when I was cleaning and decided to use it again), which is super cool because it tracks all the calories you’re burning throughout the day BUT the apex website super sucks.  Their database of foods is not so great.  It’s not that easy to log your calories or add new foods.  Plus it’s $10 a month.  The site was down for a whole day so I wasn’t able to log my calories, so I’m pretty sure I went waaaaay over.  That’s when I decided to switch.

I decided to switch to SparkPeople. I had played around with it a little in the past and I liked it.  When people ask me for a good website to track calories I usually send them to SparkPeople.  So I thought I would give it another go.  It’s free.  It’s pretty easy to use once you figure out how to use it (It can be a little confusing at first).  It has a huuuuuge database of foods and you can even find foods that other members have added manually.  There’s also a recipe calculator- I LOVE this!  Plus they have an iPhone app, so that makes it super easy to log my calories and workouts.

So in summary I’m choosing to focus on the overall fact that my weight is going down even though I gained this week.  It will eventually get where it needs to be.  On weeks like this it’s easy for me to say “oh screw it- I give up”.  That’s what I naturally want to do.  But I try my best to be a positive person so I’m just going to keep chugging along and know that I’m doing my best.

I’m going to leave you with my favorite quote, which really helps keep me on track especially on weeks like this…

“Believe in yourself, trust the process, change forever”  -Bob Harper