The best feature they offer is called MyPlate, which allows you to search a huge database of foods and claim "I ate this" for each of your meals. This is a quick and easy way of monitoring nutrient and caloric intake. You can easily set goals for weight loss and monitor your actual caloric intake against recommended caloric intake to determine success on a daily basis.
It's a fantastic tool that can help you lose, and monitor your failures and successes. They also have developed wonderful apps for most of the smartphones, including the iPhone and iPad. www.livestrong.com
Since the surgery, I've not been concerned about caloric intake or anything else. I've focused on getting as much protein as possible and meeting my other critical daily requirements (milk, water, etc.) But I thought it would be interesting to once again monitor my intake, just to see how many calories I am eating a day.
The results shocked even me. Most days I eat around 800 calories. Half of that is due to my morning protein shake and a mid-morning glass of milk. Those 800 calories are keeping me stuffed. With my walking routine, I burn between 250-390 calories a night, depending on how far I walk and at what pace. So some days I actually burn half the calories that I've eaten.
Couple that with the fact that my body doesn't absorb the fats and other bad things from the calories like it previously did, and it's no wonder people shed weight at an incredible pace after this surgery.
I am steadily working toward my sixth week post-surgery. Tomorrow marks the end of the fifth week. I'm so excited about the sixth week for several different reasons. Mostly because it frees me up to start some resistance training. Currently I'm on restrictions from strenuous activity due to the threat of a hernia. But I'm ready to hit the gym and start on some weight-lifting routines. I feel like I'm meeting my cardio goal right now of walking five nights a week. I hope to implement a routine where I lift weights and do other resistance training 3 times a week at lunch, and maintain the nightly walking routine. Last week I walked 6.3 miles. But it's time to turn some of this flab into muscle!
It's so great to hear from friends that I haven't heard from in years. Your support means more than I can ever express in words.
Weight this morning: 387.2 (-54lbs)
Regards,
John
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