6/02/2017

Weight
155 today

I've been logging my daily food into the Fitday program, which is a great little tool, it really is, however....I just discovered a little hitch.  Every morning when I log the food from the previous night's supper, I check the "stats"--it's important to get plenty of fat, not so much protein, and a certain number of daily carbs should come from veggies.  I noticed a couple of days ago that the numbers seem high (too high) for the fat category and the protein, so I took a closer look at the details of each food.  It looks to me as if Fitday makes certain assumptions with foods such as broccoli and cauliflower, and even raw chicken eggs.  Because when I compared the nutritional numbers with those foods on this site, which is the one I've used for years, Fitday numbers are off.  For instance, I know darn good and well that there is NO natural fat in broccoli or cauliflower.  The good thing about Fitday is the ability to create your own "custom" food, where you can plug in your own values, and that's what I've done now.  I'm not going to go back and correct all of my previous entries; too much work, in my opinion.

5/23/2017

157.5 today
Had a conversation (via email) with my friend and mentor Adele yesterday.  She reminded me how important low carb veggies are to our Lead With the Diet lifestyle.  Even though I had only gone zero carb for about a week, as a sort of system reboot, so to speak, I needed the veggie reminder.  I had forgotten about the veggie rule...  I have not been getting at least 11 grams of daily carbs from (low carb) veggies.  I don't know why that's so hard for me to remember, however this is why it's a good idea to reread Adele's essays.  So for a while, I'm returning to tracking my food in my log at Fitday.