I’m back to counting calories, having fattened up by about five pounds over the past six months. What’s different? I let my gym habit slide, simple as that.
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.
