Weight Loss Time

While I am loving the Nike+ system and my shoes and the overall experience of running it is time for me to get on a strict plan and lose this excess weight I am carrying. Ideally, I would like to weight between 160 and 165. As I jumped on the scale this morning I stood there staring at 190. Ugh.

I have a stomach that could certainly be smaller and I know that I could be more toned. Over the coming months the hope is to see a drop in 25-30 pounds, an increase in my overall running speed and hopefully more traffic on this blog.

The main tool that I will utilize in my efforts to lose weight is the tried and true method of counting calories and burning more than I eat in a give day. A nice free application called Lose It! for my iPhone. As you can see it does a nice job of tracking your calorie budget during the day. All you have to do is enter the item and how much of it you ate. It even helps you develop the calorie budget you need to reach your goals. Enter your weight, how much you would like to lose a week and it tells you a suggested daily calorie budget. You can also enter you weight as you go and watch it go down towards your goal weight. I entered my goal of 160 and my desire to lose a pound a week. It told me my daily calorie budget is 2,135.

You can also include your daily exercise and subtract those calories burned as well. For example, yesterday I ate 2,388 calories and burned an additionally 360 from exercise (some walking and a shortened run) for a net of 2,028 calories (107 under my daily budget). Not too bad. Now I just need to keep that going and I will see some positive results.