 Hi, this is Mitch Mitchell and I thought I would give a one-week update as to Things I've been doing with the my fitness pal app as well as a minor Update change to the channel in a slight way, but we'll get back to that Let's talk about the my fitness pal my last video. I introduced that I was just about to start using it I think I'd used it one day and I tried to show some things about it and talk about it Whatever so I have now gone eight days using it and let me tell you It's not always the easiest thing in the world It's just not not that it's not easy enough to use but sometimes trying to figure out What foods to put in and how to put them in can be difficult? I think I mentioned that last Wednesday. I went to the Japanese restaurant and Because it's not a chain restaurant. I had to pretty much estimate how much I thought all the different foods were well tonight I had kind of had to do that because I Ended up having to walk The pretty good distance to get back to the hotel. Yeah, I'm in the hotel. This is not my background and You know over an hour walk Almost three miles and you know, I've had back problems. So I you know, but I made it I got all the way back here and I decided I had earned myself a piece of cake Haven't had a piece of cake since the wedding Which was this past Saturday and I didn't really eat much of the cake because it was whipped cream frosting and Okay, that's just my own little personal thing so anyway, I get this cake at a place called fresh market and I get back here and I try to look it up and Fresh market is listed into my fitness pal thing But not any of the cakes. There's a cupcake that was listed, but it's not quite the same thing still, you know, what I was able to do is Figure out just on my own. I was kind of guessing What some of the nutritional values are I don't know how accurate it is. I don't know if I'm really close or not I'm gonna assume I'm close, but it's sometimes it's stuff like that that you're just not really sure What's your what you're getting and one of the other issues? I've had of course is that I think I mentioned I have a potassium issue where my potassium is too high It turns out that not all the restaurants not all the fast food places list potassium It's not one of the things that they have to list So for instance, I know that today I had a Wendy's hamburger and the hamburgers have gotten smaller at Wendy's What's up with that? Anyway, I know that the bread has some kind of potassium in it bread has potassium in it But I have no idea how much because Wendy's doesn't list it Burger King doesn't list it McDonald's list it, but the other two don't so I don't really know how to you know Measure that type of thing. I could try to guess but I haven't figured out if you can override Any of the numbers that you're given from these restaurants? So I'm not worried about it. The funny thing is that out of the eight days I've only been over the calories twice once was the very first day and once I think was Monday, maybe Monday was a travel day and travel days I'm either going to way under eat or Way over eat. That's just how it is. It's you know, sometimes it's like grabbing food You can eat it Because that's how it is when you're flying a lot of distances. So Have I lost anything? Well, I may have lost a pound I know that when I wake myself Saturday morning before I got just to go to this wedding It said I had lost a pound, but you know, you're never really sure how these things work out But yesterday I was under the calories I was allowed to have by 600 and It doesn't like when you're that far under, but I'm thinking wait. I was way over in fat. I was way over in sugar. I don't I Don't know I've never counted calories before and I'm letting this thing do it so that I don't have to do it on my own I don't know how this is gonna work, especially I'm trying to figure out how do I go over in fat and still lose weight I'm not sure. Maybe it's some of the exercise that I've been doing. Yeah, I've actually done some exercise So what are you gonna do? So that's the thing. I'm kind of sticking with it for now. I'm gonna give it a good shot I'm gonna give it a good three to four weeks to see if I actually lose any weight It definitely has made me more conscious about looking at the foods that I'm eating and you get amazed when you look at some of the Numbers and you realize where you're supposed to be. I've gone over on the sodium 7 out of 8 days Like I said before I'm so glad I don't have a high blood pressure issue because I'd be in trouble So it's really making me think about my foods and I think that's a good thing Now I've talked about that so that now I can talk about a slight change, you know I've been looking at a bunch of YouTube videos. I love watching YouTube videos. I have some people who I love I'm following I think are subscribed to something like 42 43 different channels And one of the things I've noticed is that there's nobody who's talking about well 50s people who are in their 50s And I started to think about that because I said, you know We actually have kind of an interesting perspective There's things that we go through that people in their 20s and 30s may never think of there's things that we can impart to you Because we've been there things that you may not have ever thought of heck We could be talking to other people in the 50s who may not have thought about this stuff for these 30s And I said, you know what that would be kind of a niche for me talking about things From a 50s perspective for instance, I'm just gonna throw this out there really quick And I'm gonna explore this deeper at another time But one of the things we can talk about is that when you're in your 50s, you start thinking about What's gonna happen when you get to retirement age? Are you gonna have enough money put away too retired? You have any money whatsoever? Can you live on Social Security? For me, I work for myself. You know what? I don't pay Social Security So any Social Security money I'm going to get is gonna come from when I was working I don't think that's gonna be enough So this is one of the things I have to think about is putting some money away But if you're in your 20s early 20s mid 20s late 20s You could start something now and be well off You can if you don't believe me and I'm not saying anything really big Don't believe me go look out on YouTube for a video warm buffet that did talking about how If you had invested like just a little bit of money early on in one particular company You'd have been a millionaire by the time I think you were 65 or maybe 55 or something like that You know, it's out there. Anyway What this will get me is a few more videos that may kind of turn out kind of vlog ish there's people who are doing these personal vlogs and whatever and I can said I think it's a perspective that I can offer because you know, I'm there I'm not gonna go to other direction. I keep hoping I will Actually, I keep hoping that my mind develops like this episode of Outer Limits one time for the guys mind developed to such an extent that he was able to Basically lose his physical body. He just became this entity that was going to be immortal It was never gonna die. That's why I used to read a whole bunch of books and study dictionary I was trying to get my mind to that point No, that doesn't work But we had to try right so anyway We're gonna see what happens. So I'm Mitch Mitchell and I hope y'all are watching the videos if you're not it happens But if you do like the video, please like the video think about subscribing to the channel There's some pretty good stuff on this channel if I say so myself and I'm pretty much the only one is gonna say it Y'all take care. Have a good night