Counting calories with Google docs
The past few weeks I’ve been working hard in the garden (see my other blog, Easy Roses), but once those planting and mulching duties subside, I need to be in the gym. Walking six days a week may do it for some people, but it isn’t enough for me.
In any case, I tried to do Atkins again for a few days and realized–duh–how foolish that was, given that I was doing strenuous physical labor in the garden (on my vacation week!). I simply can’t function on nearly zero carbs.
But calorie counting, a la Tom Venuto’s method (use the search function on this blog [search term zig] for an explanation of the zig-zag method and the sidebar at left for info on ordering his e-book), works very well for me. The hard part used to be keeping track between home and office. I kept e-mailing myself an Excel spreadsheet that I had designed to track daily calories and grams of protein.
Now that I have access to Google docs, it’s a piece of cake (should I say “it’s a toasted pita”?). I just work in the Google doc via my browser with whatever computer I’m on. If you haven’t signed up for gmail and Google docs and all that stuff, I recommend it. I don’t work for Google, I just love their (free) offerings.
