I've been charting *everything* on fitday lately. (If you haven't tried the site, I highly recommend it...it's been great at keeping me accountable. I just wish it had a little encouragement thrown in. Some sort of "Yay! You just met your fiber intake goal for the day!" or something. Although, if it did, it would probably drive me crazy as I got more consistent about meeting my goals, lol.
I do have a couple questions though. Do you guys also log all your activities? I had been including any exercise (the going to the gym type exercise) for a while, but the last couple days, I logged everything, because I could get to the gym, but I cared for children who act like monkeys and have you carry them around constantly, and helped a family pack/ move boxes and furnature, and did allot of heavy scrubbing. It seemed like a better workout than anything I do at the gym! So, I put in all my activities (including showering, dressing, sleeping, eating, all that). But, it seems like then wouldn't you be getting double credit for the some of that under both "lifestyle" and "activities"? I have my lifestyle in as "seated with some movement" so the lifting and scrubbing was out of the ordinary, but I definitely shower, get dressed, cook, read, write, do laundry, and all that all the time. Do you all put all your activities or just the purposeful exercise in?
Also, I've been working on meeting my vitamin and mineral goals, and I'm consistenly short on several (Vit K, Calcium, Magnesium, Iron, Zinc, Selenium, and Phosphorus). I read the post about the lack of Vit K just in the fitday database, and I think I probably eat enough of foods that are sources of that. So, as a whole, I think I'm doing well on Vitamins (thanks to fortified oatmeal/ bread/ cereal and a stash of the old Lunas). But, I'm chronically way low on the minerals. I've had trouble with taking a multi-vitamin in the past, have any of you found it eaiser to take a pill of just calcium, or just iron, or whatever, compared to an actual multivitamin?
Or does anyone have suggestions as to how to get more minerals in my diet, even though I have a very hard time with fruits and vegetables?
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