SparkPeople again

Over the past couple of months I've been slacking in the health and fitness area of my life. Now I can see and feel the effects on my body. So last week I decided to get back on track. I started using SparkPeople again and I've already lost 5 pounds. It feels amazing when that happens.

Hopefully next week I'll have finished planning my fitness routine and I'll be back on track and in decent shape.

Right now I'm just trying to stay within the food boundaries I've set for myself. The hardest thing I've had to deal with so far is not drinking any beer and not eating as much bread. I'm finding that vegetables are a great way of filling me up as a snack versus having a couple slices of bread with butter.

Anyway,

SparkPeople is a free tool that helps you do things like track the food you eat, calculate the total number of calories you've consumed, track the amount of fitness you've done, and track your weight. It will also chart your progress so you'll have a visual representation of how well you're doing.

The best things about the site is it's free to use. It's definitely worth checking out.

The Body Relationship.

As many of you know I'm reading Microserfs by Douglas Coupland. The main character in the book, Dan, likes to talk about many different things that happen to him.
One of the things he talks about is the awkward relationship that he has with his body. After reading about the awkward relationship I realized that I'm starting to feel the same way about my own body.

So I decided that I'm going to put an end to the awkward relationship that I have with my body and start living, eatting, and treating it better. In my efforts to do so I have joined SparkPeople. SparkPeople is an amazing site. It's helping me keep track of all the things I eat in a day, counts my calories, check that I'm getting all of my vitamins, checks the amount of protien I should be eatting and it is help with my goal of losing weight and getting in better shape. It's doing it all for FREE too!

I would definitly recommend this site to anyone that has wants to start improving their health.