Any preferred nutrition tracker?

[Turin39789]

I tried doing this once before and it seemed too time consuming, I was on fitday but it was mostly a time management/motivation problem.

Going to try again and I see there seem to be more options out there. Anyone used more than one? Any preferences?

 

[brikis98]

I initially used fitday but eventually switched to thedailyplate as it seemed to have a bigger & more complete database of foods. The first week or two was by far the hardest, as you had to take time to create "meals" you typically ate and find or add each piece of food. However, now all my meals are in there, all the foods I eat often show up in a "What I Eat Often" list, and the whole process is much faster. I'd say it takes me less than 2 minutes a day to track what I eat, which is well worth the weight loss that resulted from it.

 

[Megatomic]

I used sparkpeople when I dropped from about 300 to 162. The site is easy to use and pretty much feature complete IMHO.

 

[Turin39789]

Originally posted by: brikis98
I initially used fitday but eventually switched to thedailyplate as it seemed to have a bigger & more complete database of foods. The first week or two was by far the hardest, as you had to take time to create "meals" you typically ate and find or add each piece of food. However, now all my meals are in there, all the foods I eat often show up in a "What I Eat Often" list, and the whole process is much faster. I'd say it takes me less than 2 minutes a day to track what I eat, which is well worth the weight loss that resulted from it.

Hey thats you! I got linked to that yesterday and it put it all in simple enough terms that I felt like I had a chance again. I'm working on starting a thread to bitch about how hard life is and how impossible this all seems. I think this is the third one I've done. hoping it sticks.

 

[brikis98]

Originally posted by: Turin39789

Originally posted by: brikis98
I initially used fitday but eventually switched to thedailyplate as it seemed to have a bigger & more complete database of foods. The first week or two was by far the hardest, as you had to take time to create "meals" you typically ate and find or add each piece of food. However, now all my meals are in there, all the foods I eat often show up in a "What I Eat Often" list, and the whole process is much faster. I'd say it takes me less than 2 minutes a day to track what I eat, which is well worth the weight loss that resulted from it.

Hey thats you! I got linked to that yesterday and it put it all in simple enough terms that I felt like I had a chance again.

Heh, indeed it is me. I'm glad it helped.

Originally posted by: Turin39789
I'm working on starting a thread to bitch about how hard life is and how impossible this all seems. I think this is the third one I've done. hoping it sticks.

If life was easy, it wouldn't be any fun 🙂

Seriously though, "hoping" a diet sticks isn't going to do much. It just takes effort, being honest with yourself, and consistency. As I said before, the first few weeks are the hardest. After that, it becomes routine. And as you weigh yourself week to week and see the weight begin to melt off, you won't want to quit that routine for anything.

 

[scootermaster]

A big problem with weight loss is that people focus only on the "hard" or "not fun" parts.

Feeling better, not having little kids cry when they see you, being able to find your penis, wearing normal sized clothes, being able to do sports you may like, not being tired all the time, not being scorned for being a member of one of the last groupings it's okay to outwardly hate and having better self-esteem are all "fun".

So it's just a matter of which is more important, I guess.

 

[KoolDrew]

I started using fitday just like everybody else. Then I gave sparkpeople a try, didn't think it was any better. Then I tried thedailyplate and that's what I use now. Very easy to use and it has the largest database AFAIK. Most of the things I eat I can just look up and it's already in the database, making tracking a lot easier.

 

[Turin39789]

I'm trying dailyplate, and I'm looking for a feature they don't seem to have or I can't figure out.

I 'd like to make a meal from foods already in the database, then break that meal down by portion size.

For example, I made a pseudo hoppin john last thursday. I used about 2.5 cups(cooked) of kroger brown rice, two cans of kroger black eye peas, a can of diced tomatoes with jalapenos, a can of regular diced tomatoes, and a cup of kroger frozen veggie startes(onion, green/red/yellow peppers).

I'd like to be able to add all of those items into a recipe, and then say I ate a cup of this at 10am, and a cup at noon. Is this something I can do at dailyplate or elsewhere?

 

[brikis98]

Originally posted by: Turin39789
I'm trying dailyplate, and I'm looking for a feature they don't seem to have or I can't figure out.

I 'd like to make a meal from foods already in the database, then break that meal down by portion size.

For example, I made a pseudo hoppin john last thursday. I used about 2.5 cups(cooked) of kroger brown rice, two cans of kroger black eye peas, a can of diced tomatoes with jalapenos, a can of regular diced tomatoes, and a cup of kroger frozen veggie startes(onion, green/red/yellow peppers).

I'd like to be able to add all of those items into a recipe, and then say I ate a cup of this at 10am, and a cup at noon. Is this something I can do at dailyplate or elsewhere?

On thedailyplate, on the right side of the "my plate" page there should be a "create a meal" link.