My Fitness Pal..

How do I do it maintain a "healthy-as-possible" diet? My number one recommendation to anyone is any type of calorie/nutrition tracking app for your phone or PC. This works in the same way as Weight Watchers without the cost of membership.  My pick is My FitnessPal: http://www.myfitnesspal.com/

This online community and app is the BEST and FREE way for holding yourself accountable on what you eat.  Here are the basics of the app:

You log your daily meals and FitPal does the rest.. calculates the calories, carbs, fats and proteins to help maintain a well rounded diet.  The most amazing part of this app is that is has virtually every meal you will eat stored in a nutrition database.  I have been using it for over a year now and yet to enter something that was not in there. 

You will find that using this type of app forces you to eat better and smarter because you will NOT want to add that cheeseburger and french fries and take up your entire calorie allowance for the day! Here is an example of my breakfast:

There is a grand total at the bottom that tracks for the entire day.  I set myself a max of 1200 calories a day and try to stick to that as much as possible.  The beautiful thing about FitnessPal is it also allows for you to track your daily exercise and add those calories to your total!  For example below, I gained extra 287 calories thanks to a workout.

 

Below is the exercise page, it also has every type of exercise you can think of and calculates the amount of calories you burn.  This is my favorite part because I love seeing those calories burned being added to daily allowed calories I can eat. : )