I just discovered a great web site: EverydayHealth.com
I was searching for a daily calorie/nutrition counter that wasn’t going to elicit tons of advertising emails, such as Weight Watchers, etc. I just wanted to find out my target points for calories, cholesterol, fats, salt, sugars, and to make a daily log to keep me on track. Well, Everyday Health is wonderful. Not only do they have an excellent web site for information about all health questions, but they have a wonderful “Daily Journal” program which calculates all the food values and charts them for you daily, weekly, even monthly while it compares your goal values.
I really love that it keeps me in daily tracking and therefore calculating all that I put in my mouth. They also have great pie charts and graphs of your progress. Its all free! I discovered that when I am bored at night, I make many more trips to the fridge than I thought. Not out of hunger, just to entertain myself. This has helped me to be aware of the little mistakes I make all day and to correct them. Also, found I intake much to much salt and sugars, even though I thought I was being careful! Frozen entree’s and processed foods hide so many bad ingredients disguised as “diet” foods. Those Dunkin Donuts Reduced Fat Blueberry Muffins, eek! A whole days sugar and salt. I am trying to give them up, tee hee. Good luck and use this site, it’s great. Ciao for now. Ainslee Grace Edwards, Massachusetts
I gave up both a university position and a teaching position to move due to a short-term career opportunity for my husband, having been told that finding something comparable to what I had would be no problem where we moved Well, I've been applying
I love listening to French Radio on Pandora. I feel like I am strolling down the Champs-Elysees. The music is happy and takes me right back to Paris. Enjoy it!
I haven’t been to EverydayHealth yet. However, there are two other free sites that people may like. One is Sparkpeople.com. The other is Livestrong.com. I know that Spark People has a huge following, I’ve been away from both sites for longer than I should have. I’ve got to get back on the wagon that I hurled myself from!
Ugh, me too. I did well until Springy weather arrived, but I am losing so that’s what matters. Thanks for the other ideas, and iPhone accessible ones. Everybody has thier own requirements and likes, so it’s always good to post up your. Ciao and eat well.
If you have an iPhone, IMO the BEST food tracking tool is “LoseIt!” ~I find I use it more than Fitday or CalorieKing, and I love being able to enter foods on the go. Awesome.
I LOVE lose it – I’ve lost 11 pounds verrrrrrrry slowly and painlessly and can fit in my skinny clothes right now. Whoever thought counting calories could be FUN!?! My husband has lost 25 pounds and is at his goal – I have two more to go.
I just went and joined the website to use the calorie counter and made a pledge to start a diet and get more exercise. Actually within calories but get no exercise and I am hoping posting the daily intake online will help me get started. I just found this site and so glad to find a website devoted to women in my age group. My kids act like they have deserted me but have to go on living even if they choose not to participate in my life. I am single and a baby boomer female and life is not easy alone, or at least with my emotional and situational problems! This website has gotten me excited! I hope enough to get me up out of the computer chair!! Eliza
Yes, isn’t VN great, and it’s great to have a place to share all our ideas and finds. You go gal, it’s really hard to be left behind when the kids moture. They don’t really understand and I’ve been very down in the dumps since my son met a wonderful girl. But, the best way to deal with it is to pull up the bootstraps, get in to shape you can be proud of, and find things to do for yourself. One reader told me some great advice….”be happy and amuse yourself so that the kids see someone that attracts them back to you….” I thought it was great advice. The calorie and information is wonderful to really make you aware of everything you put in your mouth, even if you sit behind a computer. Ciao. Ainslee Grace