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Post by Mary Ann on Jan 16, 2007 7:27:06 GMT -5
When I got aggravated with the other site not having a counter feature with the food log, I went back to FitDay in hopes that it wasn't as aggravating as I'd remembered. While in many ways the WW log is much easier, I really liked the changes in FitDay since I was last there! It's a lot easier to use, and I really like the way you can run totals at the end of the day and figure out stuff like if you're getting enough calcium or not. With WW you can't do that. And for those watching things like sodium or carbs, it'll keep track of that for you, too. I'm going to try it for awhile and see how it goes. The price is sure right! And I can custom tailor it to whatever it is I really need. But I still can't get over the way their food list didn't have tilapia in it. Tilapia, for heaven's sakes!  |
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Post by DorothyB on Jan 16, 2007 7:48:34 GMT -5
I played with it yesterday, but couldn't find pepper jack cheese. Since I'm more interested in my food exchanges (diabetic exchanges) and I can't find a way to track that on FitDay, I will stick with my spreadsheet.
I'm going to try FitDay to track my exercise.
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Post by Chrisnstar on Jan 16, 2007 8:12:25 GMT -5
hehehe
you can add custom foods, my dears! Just read the nutrition label on the food y ou are eating and enter it in custom foods!
Cheeses are fairly similar in fat and calories, except for skim cheeses like mozarella. So You could probably substitute "colby jack" for pepper jack and be very close, Dorothy.
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Post by Mary Ann on Jan 16, 2007 9:37:04 GMT -5
D'oh. Good point, Chris. I did substitute a fish with a similar calorie content. It worked, and was within a dozen or so calories of my tilapia. We may need to call on you from time to time again to get tips, Chris. No point in reinventing the wheel. And I see they have horseback riding as an activity!  |
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Post by Trailpal on Jan 16, 2007 9:41:37 GMT -5
I just added "oatmeal" - gee they had every kind of snack food "oatmeal cookie" "oatmeal cake" but I couldn't find just plain ol' oatmeal. So I did what Chris suggested - the form for entering a new item is just like the nutrition label on your product, so it was really painless. And once it's entered, it's in the system, at least your personal system, so you don't have to enter it again. Man, I hope my book comes soon, I've got a lot of weight to get moving!  ps something else I noticed... I made some fudge over the weekend.... the thought of having to record that, or worse, having to enter the ingredients in the program so I can record it is enough to make me not eat it! |
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Post by Mary Ann on Jan 16, 2007 9:46:43 GMT -5
Woohoo!!! I'd call that a NSV if I were you!!! ;D ;D ;D
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Post by DorothyB on Jan 16, 2007 10:43:52 GMT -5
Is there a way to get FitDay to remember exchanges (or even up to 5 "custom values") for food items? I guess I could go in and alter everything I eat - make sodium = breads, etc, etc - No, just easier to use my spreadsheet.
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Post by Mary Ann on Jan 16, 2007 12:56:55 GMT -5
It may be easier to just use your spreadsheet. Or you might like FitDay better once you get several things logged in. I just put in the Kashi Lime Cilantro Shrimp I had for lunch, and I loff it! I can't believe I went so long with an old assumption about this program!
There's a moral in there for me somewhere, isn't there?
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Post by LoriB on Jan 16, 2007 13:07:49 GMT -5
I had shrimp, too MA. I threw it over my salad. Yum!
I know what everyone is thinking. Gee I thought she was vegetarian, LOL.
Mostly.
We still eat fish.
DD and I are the only ones that eat shrimp.
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Post by Mary Ann on Jan 16, 2007 13:12:11 GMT -5
Oh, I didn't even realize!
We spent quite a few years as ovo-lacto-vegetarians. It wasn't that we didn't like meat, but the thought at the time was the way meat is at the top of the food chain, more vegetarians would equal feeding more people. Came to find out so many of those that are hungry are hungry not because of a lack of food per se, but a lack of infrastructure to deliver it. But we still eat at least one or two meatless meals a week. I loff vegetarian cuisine!
What's your approach?
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Post by LoriB on Jan 16, 2007 13:17:51 GMT -5
We eat eggs and dairy. We have fish sometimes, not much.
No beef, chicken, or other meat.
It started out for reasons relating to the animals, but the health benefits (despite my being overweight) are tremendous. So, we have stuck with it. I've been one for about 22 years now. Hard to believe.
I've never had BP higher than 110/70, even when pregnant.
Cholesterol was 163 when it was checked 2 weeks ago.
Kids have never had meat, and the smell of it turns them off. Although, I loff the smell of a good BBQ, LOL!!
Women used to tell me that I had better eat meat when I was pregnant with my first, because if I didn't the baby would be too small.
Sure. He was 8lb 15 1/2 oz and broke his collarbone on the way out.
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Post by Trailpal on Jan 16, 2007 14:45:31 GMT -5
Fitday has "activities" you can enter. I was browsing around and found a few horse-related ones. Grooming expends 6 cals/min, walking only 1 cal/minute.... I guess my horses are gonna be real shiney now!!!
Now if I could just find "mucking stalls" LOL!
Lori - I tried being vegetarian for a couple of years... I had lived with an old 7th Day Adventist lady, she did all our cooking and I did some of the heavier chores (* she was badly crippled with arthritis). When I eventually moved away, I continued to avoid meat and most animal products. But I wasn't very balanced and ate way too many refined foods. She made lots of multigrain porridges and balanced meals. I eventually got back on meat, I was too lazy to figure out my protiens.
*she was bedridden with arthritis a few years before I met her. Some Adventists visited her (she was a religious lady anyway) and told her that her arthritis would improve if she quit eating meat. For whatever reasons, she became an Adventist, adopted the lifestyle and was able to get around and even garden by the time I met her! I think she was in her late 80s then.
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Post by Stephanie on Jan 16, 2007 21:25:06 GMT -5
The good thing about buying fitday is that you have more options for saving your created foods and it's much easier to add them to your daily meal. Also, if there's stuff that isn't on fitday look at sparkpeople.com it has a different variety of foods than fitday, including most fast food foods...so you can just look at what they've got for calories and nutrients when creating your fitday items. Sparkpeople also has great articles about nutrition, exercise, and motivation, as well as messageboards. I swear by fitday for logging my food, but I like sparkpeople for information and browsing. It's free to join and use, and you can log foods/exercise there, but I choose not to since it takes longer than fitday.
Plus with the downloaded fitday there are more reports to run so that you can see how you're progressing with eating healthily.
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Post by Mary Ann on Jan 17, 2007 7:33:00 GMT -5
Kewl! I was wondering if anyone had ever done the downloaded version. Thanks, Stephanie! |
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