Ruthi’s Losing Weight - Santee, CA

When we saw our newest Family Medicine doc in June she suggested that Ruthi begin counting her calories and adding some exercise in hopes of losing a pound a week. So, Ruthi decided to give it a try. She found an APP MyFitnessPal (http://www.myfitnesspal.com/) for her smart phone. This app works on both PC and phone. Ruthi can track her calorie intake/burn, weight, waist, etc. The PC version provides reports while the phone version allows for real time data entry.

So far, in the 6 months (26 weeks) of paying attention and recording, Ruthi has loss 32 pounds. Yea!!! And, she has not felt deprived or like she was “dieting”. Ruthi did need to buy shorts in the next size smaller and they are getting loose now. She will continue for another 6 months, in hopes that she will get her weight low enough to eliminate some of her medications (pre-diabetes and high cholesterol). She could move from morbidly obese (a horrible term, by the way) to just obese! Then she can use the APP to maintain her “new” weight for a few months before working on moving from “obese” to simply “overweight” and maybe below that.

A side result is that Boots is also losing weight as she also is bike riding more and more conscious of her food intake. She is not a geek and is not keeping records on her phone or PC.