I’ve been wanting to lose some weight for several years now. I went from a fairly physical job to a desk job a few years ago and didn’t really change my eating habits. I also feel like my metabolism has slowed dramatically as I move into my upper twenties. I can no longer fill my body with garbage and be skinny as a rail. It was a good run though.

I feel like I need to lose about 30 pounds to get to where I want to be. A few things stand in my way though. First I am an extremely picky eater and most of the food I like is not exactly healthy. Second, I have trouble sticking with any kind of diet. It is real easy for me to stop trying after about a week. I think I have stumbled upon something that works for me though. Unsurprisingly, it involves a bunch of tech. Here’s what I’m using-

•  #1 is definitely myfitnesspal. This service is what keeps me honest. They have a website as well as iPhone & iPad apps. You just enter in your height & current weight, tell it how much weight you want to lose, & it gives you a daily amount of calories to stay under. It has a great catalog of foods and makes it easy to save specific meals and foods so they are easy to enter into your food diary. You can also find friends that are also using myfitnesspal and encourage them and they can do the same to you. I have entered in all of the food I have eaten for the past 57 days. It just becomes part of your routine. Seeing how many calories are in some of my favorite foods has been extremely eye opening. I was putting a ridiculous amount of calories into my body.
• Next important would by my Fitbit Flex. I received this for my birthday in April & have worn it every single day since. It keeps track of all my steps in a day and definitely encourages me to be more active. You can connect it to your myfitnesspal account and have the steps show up in the myfitnesspal app. Get a lot of steps & it will add more calories to your day’s limit. Pretty cool. It also acts as an alarm & sleep tracker, which is a nice bonus. Lastly the tracker itself is removable from the band and there are bands available in a bunch of colors, perfect for people like me who want it to match all of their outfits.
• Also important is our Fitbit Aria scale. This scale connects to our home wifi and uploads all my weigh-ins to my fitbit account & from there to my myfitnesspal account.
• Lastly I use the Runkeeper app to track my walks, jogs, & bike rides, which also are then sent to my myfitnesspal account. If that wasn’t enough I use my Pebble Smartwatch as a display that I can quickly glance at to see how I’m doing.

So that’s what I am using to help me lose weight. I have been using all of this faithfully for two months now and have lost about 13 pounds so far. I’m almost halfway to my goal! I really can’t recommend myfitnesspal enough. There is no way I would still be watching what I eat without this service. I will try to post an update when I reach my goal.