favorite fitness apps

so i've probably been talking

ad nauseum

about the fitness trackers

the diet

the workouts

blah blah blah

awesome right?

well i know sometimes it's just so hard to get started

and get going!

with a new lifestyle plan

how do you even begin to try and change your eating habits

and how do you even figure out how you're going to run or walk 5 miles

without a plan and without an easy way to start it can be overwhelming

so let your smart phone help you out!

here are a few of my apps i'm currently using

myfitnesspal

i know - i've talked at length about this app.  but it works.  it's easy.  my husband thinks it's easy.  you can scan just about any food you eat.  you can create recipes, you can create  meals.  you log.  and you're done.  you can also track your fitness and calories burned.  seeing a snap shot of everything you ate for the day helps you see it all at once - and, at least for me, the fact that i have to log it - holds me accountable for what i eat.  i may want that candy bar, but because i HAVE to enter in that food, i'll stick with carrots and hummus.  oh - it's free too!

couch to 5k app 

there are several versions in the app store.  pick a free one - there may be some adds, but big whoop.  i like running with my phone and like having the lady tell me when to walk and when to run.  you could also just write the intervals on your hand and run with a watch if you're more simplistic.  it's a great way to start running, ease back into running, or a good interval speed workout.  you may also opt to start the 8 week program somewhere more in the middle if you have a bit of cardio under your belt.

runkeeper

i run runkeeper behind my couch to 5k app and also turn it on when i'm going on a walk.  it tracks your pace via the gps on your phone.  it also estimates calories burned.  and my favorite part is that it links directly with myfitnesspal!  after i hit "stop" on runkeeper it syncs with my other app and VIOLA!  i don't have to record my workout!  you do have to go into your myfitnesspal account and allow it to access runkeeper, but it's a fairly easy process

instagram

why?  sweating selfies are the new duckface...duh

 

instagram sunday

i'm sneezing

i'm tired

i woke up to dark, rainy skies

this time change has really messed me up.

i guess it's not fair to blame the sneezing on the time change

but i do what i want.

and besides feeling like i slept the day away sunday (even though i was up at 9 am...)

i did enjoy a warmish weekend.

and because i feel like a grumposaurus

here's, basically, my instagram feed from the weekend

what i wouldn't give to be laying on that floor cuddled up with my pup right now

or having a cool ranch dorritos taco for lunch.  or anything for lunch.  i didn't have time to make my lunch...which is only going to add to my grumpiness...

spent some time browsing $20 watering cans and old shutters. but seriously - $20 watering cans? i believe macklemore has single-handedly jacked up the prices at thrift stores.

this should surely be included in your pinterest inspired nursery...

and you can never have too many bills... (bill, my husband, holding billy beer, wearing a bills t shirt, oh, and he's a bill collector to boot!)

it wasn't until 1 ish when i realized i hadn't had any caffeine.  at which point it had to be iced - hot coffee mid-day just doesn't sit well with me.

and actually, nothing was sitting well with me - i had started to get chills saturday night, and sunday i felt off

we came back home, and despite feeling a little sick, i didn't want to waste the warm weather

so we biked

albeit, we biked around our neighborhood and nearby and not like on a 30 mile trail or something... and wound up at a biker bar

no one asked us about our sweet rides...

after a couple of these we rode back home

cut out coupons, and tried to deny this sweet face some pizza.

we called it a night with an episode of the walking dead

which, by the way, ugh - come on - that was the longest drawn out episode where nothing happened.

i feel like the previews for the week are more exciting than the actual episodes anymore.

and the sex scene...ugh...

i totally felt like that time i watched forest gump with my mom (i had to be like 8) and jenny has her boobies out and is trying to get forest to feel her up

when glen and maggie go at it - so so awkward.  i really wanted a zombie to interrupt them (maggie and glen, not forest and jenny)

but a zombie didn't...and we just get a very vivid shot of maggie and glen having makeup sex.

and i laughed nervously and pretended to be distracted by the dog. 

the end

i'm going to petition to get the time change to happen on a friday night. 

that way we have a weekend to adjust.

the end, for real.