I’ve been tracking calories.
March 4th, 2009
Yes, this is actually bike related.
My lovely wife has been tracking her calories for a couple of weeks, and since I have to do everything she does, I started as well. Probably the fair truth of it is that I wanted to show her how much easier the Livestrong app (itunes link) is than the one she’d used, called Lose It (itunes link). Devious of me but I still maintain that the Livestrong one is better. Mainly because it can be interacted with on their website, which can make all the data entering vastly easier. I will say that the interface for Lose It is easy enough to make the previous point about Livestrong app moot. But whatever. 
In any case I have been tracking my calories for a whole three days. I haven’t found out too much, aside from that I eat a lot. I haven’t been just terribly hungry all the time, and I’m pretty much hitting the target (that, according to Livestrong and my profile, would have me lose a pound or 2 per week). Throw some exercise in the mix, and I should be good to go. Exercise is something that Lose It couldn’t handle, so it’s nice to use the Livestrong app for that reason alone.
Going on. I have glanced over the clearly representative set of data from my eating pattern. And come to this conclusion. I eat. a. lot. of. salt. I hit 149% of my goal today. That is 3 and a half grams of salt. I’m not sure if you know how much salt that is. I do. It’s a lot. And my first day was 122%. Yesterday was much less, but then I didn’t enter all the foods I ate, and incidentally they were some of the saltier ones (canned beans x 2). I will have to go add that data.
Now. The part that relates to cycling. I have shed a few pounds lately, and that’s very needed. I hope to hit 175 by the time I do any serious group rides. And by that I mean races. But will include any ride where I don’t want to feel like a tool at the back of the pack, sweating his winter weight. Fortunately the lovely wife is on my side this time! It’s nice for her to be counting calories too. Nice for me, I mean; she’s beautiful any way, of course.
Now I wonder if Rold Gold make slow salt pretzles. If they don’t, they should. (duh).
Update: Yesterday’s properly updated salt (yes I mean sodium salt) was 134%. Also not good.
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