October 10

266.3 this morning.  Probably has something to do with all the water I drank yesterday.  Normally I don't drink much water at all, mostly just coffee.

So far I've weighed myself and poured my water.  Planning for gym and some errands - library (which was closed yesterday for a water leak repair) and the mall, to return a jacket I bought for teenage daughter (that she actually liked!) that didn't fit.  After that I may or may not go up to the Wool Arts Tour and do some wandering around - depends at least a little on how late it is, because the gym opens at 6, but the library doesn't open until 9, and I don't think the mall opens until 10.

Maybe I should go to the gym, then do the Wool Arts Tour (in the rain ...  less competition for parking spaces that way, I think...).  If I go to the gym first and then do whatever, I'm far more likely to hit my 10K steps by the end of the day.

Gym reading:  Fat Land by Greg Critser (subtitled:  How Americans Became the Fattest People in the World)

Downloaded two iPhone apps - Weight Tracker & Lose It.  Weight Tracker just tracks weight, but it lets you set a goal weight and goal date, and helps keep track of that.  Lose It is a freebie, and seems to be not only a little more hard-core, but has lots more to it.  It lets you set weight (although it only measures in even pounds; Weight Tracker measures in tenths, like 265.2 - includes that *.2* - which my scale also does).  Besides weight, you can set a goal and how much you'd like to target for weight loss - 1/2 a  pound a week, or 1,  1-1/2, or 2.  For each option it estimates a goal date.  It also asks for gender and height.  Then - this is really a lot for a free app! - it also tracks exercise and food.  It has a little window that tells you how many calories you've had and how many you have left in your "budget" for today.  I'll know later how it treats exercise, whether it gives you more calories for exercise done or not.  Not sure yet. 

It has lots of foods in it already, along with portion sizes.  You can select a portion size, and it changes the calorie count - say, from one cup of spaghetti to two, and see what it does to the calorie count.  This assumes you're going to count and weigh and measure, which I know can get old fast.  It does let you add custom foods, though.  I went online and found a recipe calculator, and that will let me customize homemade foods nicely.  It saves the foods you've used, too, which means you don't have to do a search for them again.  I know I have the same thing for breakfast just about every day (we buy oatmeal in bulk, and that's what's for breakfast 99% of the time).