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MIKE WENDLAND: Web services offer free diet, fitness motivation
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It's springtime and time to slim down for summer. Watching what you eat and getting exercise is critical to get in swimsuit shape. Freep Tech Columnist Mike Wendland has found some Web sites that can help you plot your way to a new you.
Here's my video show-and-tell, script and links follow:
The idea is to write down everything. What you eat and what you burn in calories by working out, bicycling and running. And the FitDay.com site is a great place to do just that.
It's free, and all Web-based. Set your weight loss goals, how many calories you can consume a day and then enter in your food and workouts. It keeps track of everything. A lot of people have lost a lot of weight and credit this site with giving them the motivation.
Another, similar site is TheDailyPlate.com. The idea is the same. Keep track of what you eat and what you burn. Information is power. As long as you burn through physical activity more than you take in through food, you lose weight. And if you write down everything, you'll know there's no room for excuses to NOT lose weight.
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Of course, you have to do more than just write it down. You also have to DO the exercise.
To that end, I'll be in the parking lot of the Rochester Public Library in downtown Rochester at 8:30 Saturday morning, May 3, to start my annual quest to get in shape for this summer's big Michigander multiday bicycle ride.
We'll do 10-15 miles to shake out the bones and progressively add more miles every week from then on.
Join us for our weekly "Train with Mike" rides. If you want to learn more about the Michigander, which this year rides the state's western shoreline from Grand Rapids to Traverse City, go to www.michigantrails.org/michigander/.
It's a terrific ride with terrific people. The six-day event, which I'll be doing, is July 13-18.
By MIKE WENDLAND
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