It’s been five months since I started
using a handy little app for my Kindle Fire called “Ultimate Value Diary Plus”.
It uses the point system of the Weight Watchers program, which was something I
was unfamiliar with but willing to try. My weight has followed a very common
course of slowly creeping up as I age. I’ve had previous success in losing some
of the extra pounds and did relatively well during pregnancy. But last year, after
I stopped breast feeding in August, I became very aware of how much my habits
had changed when I quickly gained 10 pounds by Christmas! I realized just how
easy it was to quickly lose control over your weight. I set out to simply lose
the 10 that I had gained and call myself successful. With that goal in mind, I
started using the app to log my food and exercise and start playing “the point
game”.
It was hard at first. I felt hungry ALL
THE TIME for the first two weeks. But after that, I felt great. In
those two weeks, I had lost 4 pounds and that was enough to stay motivated.
Within 6 weeks, I had met my goal. 10 pounds gone. Since then, amazingly
another 10. No tricks, No gimmicks. The app simply informed me of what food
choices I was making that were really busting my diet. I began to make better
food choices in an effort to stay under my “point limit”. In five months, I have become a 36-year-old
version of the old me. I sit in amazement at what this little app did for my
life (Yay, technology because I guarantee I wouldn’t have done all this on
paper). It’s also changing the lives of my loved ones. I passed the little app
on to my mom who also got a Kindle Fire for Christmas. As of today, she’s well
on her way to meeting her own personal goal WAY before her deadline. A recent
annual visit had her doctor singing her praises for the progress she has made
already.
So I share today with one goal in mind.
Express my sincere gratitude for my family, who went together and bought me a
Kindle Fire for Christmas. I thank my sister-in-law Jenny for inspiring me to
try the weight watchers system (Her story is TRULY amazing). And to spread the
word that this was the easiest thing I’ve ever done. The app did much of the
work for me. I just had to be faithful in logging and honest about what I ate.
So, for all of you tech geeks out there who use at least 5 different apps to
waste time; how about trying one that will be WORTH your time.
My version is for Android users, but it's also available for the iPhone folks. Happy summer everyone. Where’s my
swimsuit?!
