Fun Fitness Stuff

I was given a link to a great fitness website a few months ago. Spark People is the name and it's absolutely free to join. I am having fun with it. There are some great features there like a food tracker (food journal) and fitness tracker to keep track of the activities/exercise you do. It gives you the #of calories burned and a great analysis of your food's nutritional value ie: calories, protein, carbs, fat, and you can also set it to find out how much fiber and/or other nutrients are in there. I'm amazed at the nutritional value or lack thereof in many different foods. There are many other great features too.

I also found another great site that will give you a nutritional analysis of your recipes. You input the recipe and the yield and it will give you a nutrition label like the ones you see on packaged foods. I love that! I've used this to find out serving sizes so that I can go input it into my spark food tracker. Very helpful! I was pleasantly surprised at how great the Hearty Meat Lasagna scored since it is my new favorite! I won't even bother with my favorite cheesecake recipe though. Some things are better left in the dark.

Another site I've used to find out height to weight ratio--Body Mass Index and how many calories I would burn doing nothing--called Basal Metabolic Rate is here. I then use that to find out other fun stuff like "can I eat that slice of Chocolate Turtle Cheesecake?" There's also a body fat percentage calculator. Just to be informed. After all that "analysis" I might have to just eat the cheesecake anyway to lift my spirits! So fun!