The Cheap Man's Weight Loss Plan

As I've told ya - sodium is a real sonofabitch. Fortunately, it doesn't take long to flush it all out of your system, but it can cause some crazy weight swings after weekends of ridiculous eating and drinking. I'm pretty sure knowing what I know now, I could put back on all the weight I lost and kick some serious ass on The Biggest Loser. Load up on salty foods before your first weigh in to protect you from elimination in week 1. Then just start count calories and walk around all week while others are busting their asses in the gym.

The Fitbit ecosystem has served me well, but I've finally decided to leave it behind for Google Fit and MyFitnessPal. There are definitely some tradeoffs that I'll get to in a bit, but it's been kind of a worrisome transition. Like most people who've lost a lot of weight, you become paranoid about changing from the formula that got you to where you are and gaining it all back. The simplified Fitbit system made keeping track of things easy, whereas Google Fit only tracks your activity. You need to hook in a separate nutrition app, and the dashboard just isn't as clean as Fitbit's. The thing that annoyed me most about Fitbit was step count accuracy. If you're wearing a hip mounted tracker, it was always going to be a lot more accurate than something worn on your wrist. Your wrists are constantly moving and doing various tasks, and while they've done a pretty good job at tuning the gyro in it to eliminate most of the statistical noise, I don't th