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I haven’t done a “stuff I love” post in a while (for more, see the category), so it’s high time I talked about my hands-down favorite bookmark thing on the web: pinterest. If you are a visual person (hello graphic designers, fashionistas, photographers), this is for you.
It works like this: You are on a website with an awesome photo or a recipe you want to try or something you want to purchase. You hit “pin it” (after you install the browser extension) and then you choose from available images on the page to “pin”. You write a short description, choose the “board” where the pin belongs, and hit enter. Pinterest sends your note and image to your bookmark page and you go on browsing. Later, when you want to review your photos/recipes, etc., you draw up your board and you can see everything laid out for you in a very visual display.
I’m a very logical, data-oriented person, so I wanted to track all of this for myself. I am floored by the clarity of my results and have impressed those I’ve shown these charts, so I’m going to put them here on my decidedly not-diet-related blog. First, we have a chart showing my daily calorie and carbohydrate intake. There’s a crazy, surreal spike on the left side of the chart because I was trying this whacky Tim Ferris Four Hour Body thing. It required one massive binging day and I really, really went for it. I also did not lose any weight on that diet, as you will see. The last week I haven’t been very good about tracking and that’s why everything is so low there on the last dot.