[link] Fitday helps with the food tracking quite a lot.

Also, have you read Will in the World? Will of the World? The Stephen Greenblatt book? It's amazing. Very thought provoking.

Not yet - keep meaning to, but the To Be Read pile is already hi-yuge. And AWESOME on you sharing your paper. Can't wait to read it!

Fitday never really worked for me -- according to their calculations, I should have been losing almost a pound a day the whole time I was tracking my eating habits, which...no. NSM. Their estimates of caloric intake were pretty accurate, but their defaults for caloric expenditures were way out of whack.

I use Fitday when I am trying to really watch my blood sugar numbers. What would be more useful for me is if I could get into the habit of useing it 3 or 4 days a week- but I find it too hard to use on the weekends , when we eat out more. But I need to keep better track of things on the weekend. I keep makeing attempts to make my own food journal - something that works for my needs

Will in the World is awesome. Greenblatt's take on Shakespeare is very much from a historicist perspective. And since the religious conflicts were so huge in England during this period, it's cool to read how what we see as the universality might spring from the desire to keep hidden politically sensitive ideas.

Fitday is interesting but I'm not dedicated enough for that. I used to keep a paper journal, but I don't even do that anymore. I should give Fitday a try, mebbe.

I have a migraine too, ita, and I am frantically willing it to go, as I have a dentist's appointment at 3:00 which is going to involve the drilling and the novocaine and the glayvin. I'd cancel, but I can't get another appointment before we go on vacation, and I need to get this tooth fixed STAT.

but their defaults for caloric expenditures were way out of whack.

I've heard this from runners-- they just default to "sleeping" to keep track of their running activity with some accuracy.

If anyone is interested weight watchers is about $17/month for their online program.

yeh, fitday seemed to think I shold be loseing weight , too. I used it more to spot patterns. - like if I don't eat much before 6 , I don't seem to stop eating in the evening. and drinking anything alcoholic increases my calorie cunsumption in a big way. and on the weekends I eat more. And I eat a lot of cheese.

Oh, all kinds of sympathy to both ita and Robin. I cannot imagine going to the dentist with a migraine. Any hope you can get knocked out entirely for the appointment?

I think I will try the FitDay thing next month. I've been doing the Sonoma Diet, which is tasty food and is effective to the extent that I follow it, but has no discussion at all of calories. It's supposed to free you from the tyranny of counting stuff, or something, but it just makes me feel underinformed and unsure about substitutions.

Fitday thought it was dead. But I'm not interested in caloric expenditure. I'm more interested in the breakdown of what nutrients I am and am not getting. I want to make sure any tweaks I make to how I eat (ha! I don't think I've ever successfully tweaked my eating habits significantly except for the vegan episode) don't end up with me getting rickets or some such.

Oh, man, Robin. I'd be begging my dentist for the sleepy gas. Actually, I really want sleepy gas.

In lieu of that, I'm going to go sleep in my car, and if half an hour of that doesn't break the back of this beast, I'm going home and finishing up from there.

I've been eerily productive and detail-oriented this week, despite feeling quite crippled.