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My Experience with the CT1 Personal Calorie Tracker By Regina Melchiorre  I
am one of those people who have struggled with my weight pretty much
all of my life. In school, I was definitely "the fat kid" until puberty
hit. Through high school, I managed to maintain a normal weight
primarily through "fad" dieting - diets I found in magazines, appetite
suppressants, etc. I also went on a popular weight loss program for a
time, losing 12 pounds. The weekly weigh-ins and meetings got to be a
hassle, and I soon went back out on my own.By the time I graduated from college and got married, I was definitely overweight again (the "gain 10, lose 5" syndrome). I went on one popular weight loss system, which took off a small amount of weight, but only as long as I drank the shakes. I enrolled in a second highly touted weight loss system, where I lost 40 pounds in 9 months. After losing those 40 pounds, I really thought I had the problem "licked". It took several years for the weight to come back, gradually, but boy did it, along with 40 more pounds. I saw pictures of myself and was shocked. How did I ever get this big? In March of 2000, I was offered a chance to be a "beta tester" for Stayhealthy's calorie tracker device (CT1). I was curious about how it worked and what it would tell me. I truly didn't believe at first that I would lose any kind of weight, as I never had lost more than 5 pounds without some kind of diet in my life. I set up my CT1 unit and began wearing it daily. It looked just like a pager, so much so that airport security asked me to change the settings. Five days after I started wearing the CT1, I called Stayhealthy. "This thing is broken," I said. "It's not moving off its baseline measurement." They asked me to do "something unusual" for me, so I walked up and down the stairs at work for 10 minutes. I was completely out of breath. To my surprise, when I uploaded my data again, my activity chart showed a sharp increase. It wasn't the unit, it was me! I had become so sedentary I hardly burned anything.  So
I began setting activity goals - betting myself that I could burn off
2,800 calories per day, up from 2,400. To achieve my new goals, I began
tracking my calorie intake for 2 weeks in order to eliminate 500
calories per day from my diet (2 pieces of toast with butter, 2 cans of
regular soda). I lost a pound, then two, then five - One pound per
week, every week. My doctor said that was a healthy rate for weight
loss. I noticed a lot about my eating habits that I never saw before -
like that I eat when I'm tired or reading. I began walking vigorously,
burning 360 calories per hour.I'm up to 40 pounds off now, from a size 22 to a size 16. For the first time, I can honestly say I'm in control of my body. I never thought I could do that before and it's still kind of amazing to me at times. I use my calorie tracker to motivate me - both through the charts and just by having it clipped to my waistband, reminding me in a very subtle way.  Regina Melchiorre is a senior project manager for CHI, a healthcare company in Southeastern Virginia, where she lives with her husband, two dogs and two cats. In her spare time, she enjoys attending professional hockey and baseball games, reading, SCUBA, and traveling, and is an avid birdwatcher. We will be monitoring Regina's progress and keeping you posted on this page. If you have questions for Regina about her experiences, email webmaster@stayhealthy.com and we will pass them along to her. If you have a story about your experiences with the CT1, please let us know! |
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