You don’t need a personal trainer to meet your diet & fitness goals

I was exercising. I was eating right. I just wasn’t shedding the pounds that I expected. (Actually I wasn’t shedding A pound) No results for my best behavior. How frustrating!

I mean, I felt like I was starving myself for the last two weeks. I even gained a pound! What’s up with that??

Last week my friend passed along this website. Her employer challenged them. They needed to sign up for a free account, track their food intake and their activity. They finish a week’s worth of logging, submit them and would have an opportunity to win prizes. I would love an employer that thought this was important. Why? BECAUSE IT IS IMPORTANT.

This was just what I needed. caloriecount.about.com , a FREE resource that provides guidance and support to live a healthy lifestyle. It’s a community of people with the same dietary goals.

You create your goal. If you’re trying to lose weight, get healthy, build muscle or excel at a sport, you’ll need specific goals. You take this assessment test to see what kind of eater you are. You track all your food you eat during the day and all your activity. It’ll perform an analysis of the kind of eating/activity day you’ve had.

There are so many other tools on this website. There are different exercise programs. There are different workout plans depending on what kinds of equipment you have or don’t have available. There’s a section where you can get food suggestions. For instance, I thought drinking Lipton Sweetened Iced Tea was so much better than soda. It was but a better choice would be Propel with Lemon, or Gatorade; less sugar. I thought that I ate a salad with Ranch dressing, that I was being good. Turns out that a tablespoon of Ranch dressing was the food with the most calories I had consumed for the day. A better choice would have been Balsamic vinaigrette dressing, or Olive Oil and Lemon. You can journal on the website, you can get support from the members of the site that have experienced what you’re experiencing. There’s a staff of professionals and lifestyle experts ready to give you advice on healthy living.

I’m really getting a better understanding of my food choices, that they’re not as good as I thought. This is a great free website with so much information at your fingertips. I’m really digging on it right now. Maybe I didn’t need that personal trainer from the gym, the one I paid $300 for 6 sessions. I could have saved me some money, darnit!