Calories, again
Goal Post #5 Last November (Thanksgiving week, precisely), I started tracking my daily calories again using the app on my phone. This is the same app I'd tried to use to track calories earlier and failed, but it's where I'd been tracking exercise and efficiency is apparently more important to me than accuracy. Strangely, counting calories over the holidays was the double-bluff my mind needed. Knowing I had a good reason to fail at this somehow made it okay to start trying. For two months I was constantly and sometimes obscenely over my intake goal. It was the easiest goal by they way: cutting 250cals/day. Allowing for failure actually made it more enjoyable. The activity became about tracking my eating habits: figuring out how much was I eating and how many calories were in those foods. Finally , seven weeks into keeping track, I started meeting my calorie goal consistently. For a while, I also didn’t cut any particular food from my diet but a t some po