Google 15

A very helpful tool that my husband told me about is the Google 15. It's a weight tracker where you enter your weight every single day. Now, most diets recommend that you only weigh in once a week, and that's fine too. But the premise of this tool is that you don't want to wait a week to find out you're not on the right track anymore!

So what they've done is create a program that calculates a moving average based on the scale weight you enter everyday. This is because you don't actually lose 3 pounds overnight, no matter what the scale says.

I have found this tool to be VERY beneficial for me. There have been a couple of times when my weight was the same 2 days in a row, but the moving average still went down. The same is true of the one day when my scaled weight was up slightly. It's very encouraging!

One thing I would advise is keeping a separate Excel spreadsheet of your numbers. Something bizarre happened last week and all my numbers were gone. It was crazy how deflated I felt seeing my progress disappear. So since then I've been keeping my own file of the numbers in case it ever happens again.