So I do have to say nutritional tracking sucks, and sucks majorly.
Last Friday my trainer held a nutrition seminar to show us how to calculate our kcal intake vs outtake.. Now before this seminar we have talked about this many times before and always THOUGHT I understood it but I guess I didn't.
Since I got my fitbit it started to make sense. I work a sedetary job and sit all day. After a whole day of work I only got 2000 steps in. But my fitness pal said I could eat 1600 calories in one day. Since I got my fitbit I began loging all my food and I noticed that if I do not get 10000 steps in I can not eat 1600 kcal. I can only eat 1200. This got me realizing that I have been doing my fitness pal WRONG for a whole year and this may be the reason why I am only maintaining the same weight since January instead of losing anything.
After 2 days of the fitbit and going back over my notes that I wrote from the seminar I realized I was so wrong about nutrition. Its not only about kcal counting but also about the nutritional facts on every single piece of food we put into our mouths. Why has this never made sense to me in the past? I think only beacuse I've never had a pedometer attached to my apps to show how much I THOUGHT I was doing was actually what I wasn't doing.
Well now that I understand my fitbit and myfitness pal i started to realize I am not hitting my protein, fat, and carb goals my carbs and sodium are always high and yes I am hitting my kcal but I am eating the wrong foods.
So today while I waiting for my cat to get groomed I needed to get pet food at walmart. Unfortunatly its the cheapest place to get it in NY. While I was there to only grab pet food I started walking around. Ugh Walmart just pulls me in so badly but I live 20 min away from it and only come here 2x a month. My budget for food for a week is 150 for my family of 3 and sometimes 5 if we have my boyfriends girls for the weekend. Anyways... I picked up some uniforms shirts for my son as he is starting Kindergarten in Sept then I decided I would go grocery shopping while I was there. Ugh.
As I went grocery shopping I went by the bod-e app i have as I am going to start it on monday so I got the grocery list on my phone and started buying foods. On the list it says low carb, low fat, low sodium so on so forth. I never realized how hard it is to really shop this way. A 1 hour trip to get just pet food took me 2 1/2 hours looking at every food label of what products I needed and determin the best. Overall the products that didnt say fat free, low fat were not the best option but more the worst option because it had 2x the amount of sodium in them I was just stunned in the amount of sodium all this processed lunch meat had. After seaching and thinking I had ok enough of foods I cashed out and my bill was $243 Ugh if I take out the pet food and the uniform clothes. I spent $200 on food alone. So now is the question is all the food I bought will I be able to eat it all in one week. I am going to put this to the test this week to see if it was worth buying $200 worth of food and do I lose weight from it. I sure hope I do.