My name is Chris, and I'm a 28 year old software developer. Like many, I have struggled with maintaining healthy eating habits. It's a fact that most people are very bad at determining the calorie and nutrition content of what they consume every day, and I'm no exception. I consider myself fortunate that I am naturally athletic, and have a slim body type- it's easy for me to build the endurance to cycle and run long distances, and work out at intense levels. However, despite being pretty active, I have always struggled with addiction to soda and candy, and that has always hampered my efforts to develope a leaner build and feel more motivated and energetic in my life.
I am writing this blog to explore an idea. I'm sure this is not an original idea, but I've been thinking about it a lot lately. My idea is that for people that are trying to get a hold of their food intake and budget, current tools and methods for tracking what they eat are too time consuming and annoying to use. Any tool that requires daily input of exact amounts of food eaten takes a substantial investment of time and motivation. I believe that many people like me would be more likely to stick to a budget and eat healthy if they were to determine a weekly caloric goal and macronutrient breakdown, think generally about the types of foods they like and can realistically eat in a week, and then buy all the food for that week and be able to make whatever dishes they can think of out of it.
The motivation to actually start this blog came from a recent post in Runblogger (http://www.runblogger.com), which is a fantastic and motivating blog about running by fellow New Hampshire-ite Pete Larson. He made a post about the recent F as in Fat Report, a report on obesity rates in America. I made a couple of posts about my idea, and set out to create a week's shopping list and implement my plan. My next entries will be near copies of those, and I'll continue to post about my results and thoughts in the coming weeks, and hopefully months.
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