Technology

Technology is such a huge part of our world today.  Sometimes we use it and sometimes we fight it.  I have found myself fighting it on more than one occasion.

I went without a cell phone long after most everyone I knew had cell phones.  When Bryan reminded me of how convenient it would be to own cell phones over and over I would tell him that we can be inconvenienced from time to time.  So we have to use a pay phone, so what?  I don't need to be available to everyone all of the time.  I fought it tooth and nail.  I am always trying to save a buck so I had a hard time justifying the expense of a cell phone.

Finally, one day Bryan came home from his umpiring job with a pay as you go cell phone that he stopped at the store to buy. He said he tried 3 different pay phones on the way home and none of them worked.  All of the other umpires had cell phones and everyone was expected to call in their scores as soon as their games were over so the office staff could go home.  I understood his predicament and gladly accepted his reasons for buying "that technology."  Over the next two years he would remind me on occasion that I should now enter the real world and get a cell phone too. I keep resisting until my birthday when he gave me one as a gift.  I was happy to play with my new toy and enter the world of technology after being dragged in to it.

I now use my cell phone almost every day.  I'm not as attached to it as many people are in this day and age but I also don't really live the lifestyle that needs one every day either.

I've come to use technology to help me in my daily life.  Since technology is such a great use these days I was wondering what technology I should be using to help me lose weight.  There is so much available to us if we are just willing to try it.

I am using ww.com to use etools.  If you are not a WW member you may not know what etools is. It's a fabulous piece of technology.  I needed a boost in my motivation.  I've been playing the up, down game for a couple of months and needed something to pull me out of the rut.  I decided to try something different.

Although I have always used etools to figure out PointsPlus Values for recipes.  That's always been helpful.  But I've never been one to use it to track my food daily.  Last Friday I decided to start using etools and it has given me a new outlook on my eating habits.  I am enjoying it thoroughly.  I like being able to go to the computer and tell it what I ate.  It does the math for me.  It tells me how many points I have left for the day and the week.  It keeps track of my Activity Points too.  I've never been good about tracking activity points.  This does the work for me if I just punch it into the computer.  I'm loving technology this week.

How do you use technology to help you lose weight?

Corinna

"Then someone came to him and said, 'Teacher, what good deed must I do to have eternal life?' And he said to him, 'Why do you ask me about what is good? There is only one who is good. If you wish to enter into life, keep the commandments.'" -Matthew 19:16-17