Showing posts with label melissa. Show all posts
Showing posts with label melissa. Show all posts

Tuesday, October 28, 2008

List of Free Online Weight Loss Tools

Here are some great online tools that will help you lose weight for free, listed according to their most basic traits.

Calculators (BMI, Calories etc)

Fit Day

Calorie Count

Nutridiary

SparkPeople

CaloriesPerHour

FreeDieting

Calorie King

Nutrition Data

Traineo

Support Groups, Forums and Tips

Calorie Count

Nutridiary

SparkPeople

PeerTrainer

Fat Secret

Traineo

Diet Plans

Fit Day

Nutridiary

SparkPeople

Exercises & Plans

IntroPlay *

Calorie Count

Fit Day

Nutridiary

ExRx

SparkPeople

FreeDieting

Gimme 20

Goal Plans, Logs and Trackers

Fit Day

Calorie Count

nutridiary

SparkPeople

Traineo



* Many thanks to Dosh for suggesting IntroPlay

Tuesday, October 14, 2008

Dieting #1

Everyone who's been trying to lose some serious weight by dieting, should by now know that there is more than one method.

The most known approach, is reducing the amounts of food one consumes, or reducing calories (though it's not exactly the same thing).

If you've been into the dieting for some time, you should have found by now, two very good excuses to avoid this type of dieting (at least I have):

  • Hunger and
  • The scale getting stuck easy.

During low calorie diets I felt constantly hungry and my metabolism was getting used to having less energy to burn. This meant that I should reduce the calories I was eating a bit more, till I get stuck again. At the end of such diet (if successful) the problem is this: Your metabolism is much lower than when you started, so gaining weight by eating the same amount of calories you used to eat is much easier.

Plus having to calculate calories all the time isn't fun, both for you and your company.

Being tired of this kind of dieting I've tried a number of other solutions, some of them worked but others were more harmful than helpful.

Today I know this… starving is not ok, and the results most of the times are just temporary, but don't forget that you're on a diet, no pain no gain, reducing the portions you consume will make a difference.

Eating less (NOT starving) and eating right makes the trick.

Monday, October 13, 2008

The Time of Truth, week 0



As I promised, today I took measurements and a pic of myself. (I will not be posting all my measurements, in order to save time)

So here they are:
Weight: 98.6 kg (217.37 pounds)
Waist: 98cm (37.79 inches)
Hips:128cm (50.39 inches)


So now it’s time to be placing some goals, isn’t it?
Keeping in mind my metabolism isn’t working very well, I’ll try to lose 1kg (2.2 pounds) within the next week (for me this is a big goal but I’ll try to do my best).
My final goal is to weight 55 kg (losing 43.6 kg or 96.12 pounds). A pie chart on the left of this post will be showing my progress towards my final goal.

For me visualizing my goals helps so, here are 2 3D models, showing my starting state and my final goal:
Today--------------------------- Goal




















If you’d like to try making a 3D model of yourself too (for free woot!), visit this link (please keep in mind that I do not try to promote WebPages and services, but I, as I promised I will be sharing with you every tool I can find).
Next time I’ll post the changes I’m going to make in my daily routine.