NPR is great and I’m proud to say that I’m a card carrying member.
Here is a story about weight research showing the people who logged on an Internet site frequently to track their weight were significantly more likely to actually lose weight.
I think it goes without saying that losing weight is a healthy thing for almost anyone to do. Sure there are a few lightweights out there but they are definitely the minority. If your BMI is in the overweight range (strangely mine is at the moment), then you might benefit from tracking your weight online. You can check yours using this BMI Calculator.
Here is a free resource Fitday.com to do just that. You can set up your profile, then start recording your weight. I’m going to try but I’ve found just using a spreadsheet is the most effective thing for me.
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I’ve had pretty good luck with Spark people, a similar site. Before that though, I knew I have a tendency to be a terrible mathematician when it comes to estimating what I ate on any given day without writing it down. I am an expert at lying to myself so writing it down is the only thing that works for me. Currently I’m down about eighty pounds from my top weight of several years ago. It’s been very slow going, but using the website has been very helpful–twenty of those pounds have been lost since I started logging on in January of this year.
Elizabeth – Great story and congratulations on the weight loss! Keep it up.