I have successfully made it two weeks without a gall bladder. I am starting to bike and am doing quite a bit of walking. I have been testing my ability to process food and this morning's results confirm my liver is not yet up to the task of digesting regular food. By regular food clearly I mean food wrapped in a visibly grease- spotted bag thrust at me from a freakishly small window by someone who has the culinary skill of a 5-year-old as I cruise by hoping the semi-literate teenager on the other end of a 30 year old army surplus speaker understood when I said no cheese I actually meant NO CHEESE. Haha just kidding! In this particular instance as far as I can tell regular food means eggs.
So this week I took a look at Lose It! The greatest insight I learned after countless minutes or research is I hate research. So this week I also took on a research assistant. Her name is Matilda. I was able to capture her reaction the moment I gave her the good news:
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| Matilda reacting to the news of her new job. |
Note the genuine enthusiasm. During our research time Matilda and I did learn about Lose It! Lose It!, like most other apps, requires a log-in and password so people cannot spy on my super secret meal plan or publish my favorite foods in Cosmo. I give the app basic information including age, height, weight, and fitness goals and it determines the amount of food I should eat. I then use the very user friendly interface, the bar-code scanner, or the food history to log my food. This lasts for about a meal and a half before I get distracted because almost anything in the world is more interesting than logging my food. This in not the fault of Lose It! Without knowing what I am eating Lose It! cannot possibly berate me for not losing weight in a timely manner. It just so happens I would rather watch my research assistant play with a half dead moth than log food. But for those people, and I know you are out there, who live for logging food and exercise it is a very simple and effective way to do so:
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| My daily summary |
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| Logging my exercise. |
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| Logging my breakfast. |
One of my main priorities is to track fat intake. In order to do so with Lose It! I would have had to purchase the premium version. I briefly considered doing this but there are other programs, which will remain nameless but rhyme with FryWitnessGal, which give me easy access to macro-nutrients so I chose to spend the $40 on tools to patch the area of my lawn where my research assistant was convinced lay buried the greatest archaeological find of our generation.
Within the free version of Lose It! I did not see anything that really makes it stand out from the competition. Unless you count the somewhat comical little pictures of food by the descriptions. Which I do not. But it is as good a program as any for tracking food which I highly recommend for as long as you can possibly stand it.
