It seems so peculiar posting my health stuff and everything else in one place. I need to move my photos over to here as well but its awkward knowing what to move or just start from fresh.
I’m working on changing my daily calorie (kcal not just cal) intake as I’m changing my work out routine. Its so much harder than I thought. Normally I keep it around 30/30/40 on proteins side, but wanting to up ones total calorie content for increased expenditure produced insane results.
MyFitnessPal Short Falls
I enrolled the MyFitnessPal app to try and help, but it has its quirks…
- Doesn’t count calories of strength exercises.
- Doesn’t by default track water/liquid (but can be added per day)
- Can’t sync with built-in phone pedometers.
- Can’t adjust food, like where I order breaded chicken (only high protein option at the time) and remove the coating.
- Bundles fibre as a carb, but not a biggie.
- Doesn’t allow custom weights for lots of things.
Saying that on balance its a good guide and tracker. Point 6 above, if you can do basic maths you can enter 0.5 and 0.25 into the portion to artificially create a custom weight of food.
Bad Habits
The app has revealed a few bad habits. The biggest being portion control, especially down to the size of my bowl. Breakfast when I have ready oats, I didn’t realise just how carb heavy it were. Another example is the bit of dark chocolate I have mid work out , often isn’t being taken mid work out, its being taken once home, and not only gym days.
Its made me more aware of time keeping, I really wish the app would keep track of the times things were eaten or drank. The reminders help a little.
Its also shown my protein intake is about 75-100 grams short, while carbs are 100-120g over. I’m not sure if the figures are accurate and some days I have to mentally adjust for the removal of coatings, not having sauces, etc.
Anyway, Moving to 25/30/45(protein high) is proving impossible without going over on one of the other macros unless I make everything from scratch which isn’t possible, I need to find a way to buy off the shelf and stick within margins.
On a side note, water and cardio are evil.
A Manchester Based Photographer and Website Developer with interests in Strongman, Fitness and Geekery.