pacer and my fitness pal

The past year I've seen a drastic change in my weight and not in a good way. I've always been comfortable in how I look and the way that I feel about myself. I've never been one to worry about my weight or if I was too fat. I view my body as a tool that I use and as long as it worked I was happy. But a comfortable relationship to a professional chef has lead to a large increase in my weight. It was a slow gain with a few pounds here and there but two years later I've gained almost 35 lbs! I'm starting to feel that weight gain now that it is summer and I want to be more active. So I've decided to work harder on getting healthy and maintaing a healthy lifestyle. We already eat a majority of fresh, home cooked meals so I'll be focusing on portion control and eating at least three times a day. Right now I usually forget to eat breakfast and sometimes lunch so by dinner time I'm starving and I overeat.

The second part to my weight loss/getting healthy goal is to be more active. My husband and I just joined a gym and my goal is to go twice a week to start and eventually three times a week. I've also downloaded my fitness pal and pacer on my phone. My Fitness Pal is one of the most popular food and exercise tracker on the market and Pacer is a pedometer app. They link together so I can see how active I am on a day to day basis in comparison to the food that I'm putting into my body. I'm not looking to restrict the type of food that I'm eating but rather to see how portions of even healthy food make a big impact on weight gain and energy. I'm using Pacer to see how active I am on a day to day basis and see if I can make improvements. I'm averaging about 6,000 steps a day and my goal is 10,000. I'm really trying to change my daily habits to create lifelong behaviors that will protect my health and benefit my body.

I'm going to try to post here every so often about my fitness and general health in order to keep myself accountable!