Back to the weight loss (again)

Once again I find myself trying to shed the flubber that has collected around my midriff over the last few years. So I've taken a 3 month membership of the gym, not the first time and trying to reduce amount of crap food I'm eating. Again, not the first time.

Why am I succeeding this time?
A combination of factors/motivations:
- feeling really unfit and noticing the lard more than I used to
- weight got to 105Kg, too much to lose pre (Judo) competition to get under 100Kg
- using software to track food/exercise helps monitor/motivate me

I have recently discovered a website (www.myfitnesspal.com) that helps track calorie intake/expenditure on a daily basis. Great, if you happen to be near a computer all day (just so happens I usually am!) but they also have an application for phones which is a real boon. The phone app synchronises your data to the website so you can build up a historical record of diet/weight loss.

Also on my phone I have a small program called 'libra'. A great little application that plots your weight as a graph. So what, a graph? Well the graph doesn't show a simple plot of daily weigh-ins rather it shows a trend line generated by analysing the data you give it. So while your weight changes day to day you can see how todays weigh in compares to the trend of weight change. Libra also provides a visual projection on the graph of your trend line which means you can see when you might expect to hit your target weight if weight change continues at the current rate. A fantastic little application.

I started this round of weight loss around the middle of June 2011 and after a month I'm still going strong and the weight is coming off. In no small part thanks to the motivation of these weight loss apps.

MyFitnessPal - Free Weight Loss Tools

MyFitnessPal - Free Weight Loss Tools