188.
Stuck to the diet reasonably well this week, and last night measured in at four pounds heavier than the week before. That may sound like a lot, but big changes like that usually happen when I’m starting out my efforts; which I suppose is just the change from running on half empty to running on a full tank; after this it usually gets harder to progress.
But, of course, I’m sticking to it. I use DietPower to keep track of weight and calories and calculate my “metabolism” (I do so despise that word). I’ve mentioned before that entering all those individual foods daily is tedious and unrewarding, which is still to an extent true; what I’ve been doing for the past couple of weeks, which I think I can sustain better, is just putting my whole meal plan for the week in at once: while I’m filling out my grocery order, I just take what I plan to eat and put it down for the day I plan to eat it on. Then everything’s accounted for so long as I eat everything I bought, and I only have to go in at the end of the week to put in my weight. The program’s pretty good, so long as you stick to its calorie budget—and planning while buying the groceries helps keep me from falling short and having nothing in the house to eat.
Anyway, that’s my plan. Enough rambling for now. Pics when I get to 190.
Glad to hear you’re using Diet Power. (Your blog came to our attention via Google’s Alert service.) Dunno how long you’ve been using our program, but if you use Smart Search (the default) in our Food Log, you’ll find that entering a single keyword usually brings up the very food you want, at the top of the Found list — because Diet Power remembers all the foods you’ve logged recently and gives them list priority. This is one of several reasons that logging your foods in Diet Power happens faster than in any other weight-loss software.
Good health to you!
Terry Dunkle
Diet Power founder and chairman
Oh, it’s not time-consuming… the search works fine (and the favorites is even more useful, for someone like me with repetitive eating habits). It’s just tedious; I expect working with it is less of a hassle for people who are trying to eat *less* and have less to put in. :p