Track, Track, Tracking...

Tomorrow I start my Hype or Help series on my main blog. My first experiment being Tim Ferriss's new book the 4-Hour Body. I thought a lot about how to do my tracking for this. I'll be sharing weekly posts on my main blog, but I also want to track my food intake, workouts, etc. I usually use a fitbook or sparkpeople, but I wanted to do this more publicly than those options..so, I started this blog.

I've always heard that studies say people who track consistently lose more weight than people who don't. In The 4-Hour Body Tim Ferriss says:  "...tracking even a mediocre variable will help you develop awareness that leads to the right behavioral changes." To me, this whole losing weight, getting fit journey is about behavioral changes. So, track I will. He also discusses a study where people took pictures of everything they ate. This is how I've decided to track my diet. I'll be doing daily posts on this blog with pics of everything I eat. Even the higher calorie day I'll be doing once a week!

I'll also be posting my workouts here. I recently got a new Polar HR monitor, so I'll be tracking that data too.

So, off I go...track, track, tracking!