Gonna put some emphasis on this next year, help me....

morpheus

Just, let me start here..

Lose It app, very good for counting calories, plan on using it.  But, is there anything out there that will help me add up grams of carbs vs grams of protein vs fat, etc?

Or is there a good resource that I can use for getting ideas.... a "how much of what food yields higher nutritional calories" kind of resource? 

I'm looking to get the engine running cleaner & smoother, getting leaner, without going on any big 'diet'.  For racing purposes, but also for 40 year old husband/dad purposes, ya know?

Ideas?

 

penlynwilson

I like myfitnesspal.com. They also have an iphone and other smartphone aps. Lets you track calories, carbs, fat, protein.

zildgen

Chris, Penny put me onto Myfitnesspal.com and I love it. I find it equal to or better than lose it. Very happy with it so far.

Paul Stone

http://nutritiondata.self.com/

morpheus

checking them out.

mgraffeo

Chris, LoseIt also does that. Just look at "My Day", and then tap "Nutrients". Good to go!

morpheus

Huh?! Didn't know that, just getting started with this, dreading the idea of calorie counting, so it must be just what I need for the next step.

Thanks

jburbatt

I just switched from lose it to my fitness pal and love MFP so much more. The food database is HUGE and if you can't find something and it has a barcode you can take a photo of it with your phone and it will get the nutrition info. Very cool. They also do a complete analysis of your nutrients, etc. and how you are doing on a weekly basis meeting the requirements. Would highly recommend it.

Kevin Walter

Haven't use MFP, but Lose It does the bar code scan thing as well (as an iPhone app). Also tallies carbs, proteins, fiber, cholesterol, etc on a daily and weekly basis. You can also set up Lose It to e-mail you daily and weekly summaries. Also integrates with my Withings scale so my morning weigh-in result gets beamed directly to my Lose It account (and Training Peaks too). MFP might do all this as well, but have been very happy with Lose It.

jburbatt

Posted By Kevin Walter on 15 Dec 2011 05:34 PM

Haven't use MFP, but Lose It does the bar code scan thing as well (as an iPhone app). Also tallies carbs, proteins, fiber, cholesterol, etc on a daily and weekly basis. You can also set up Lose It to e-mail you daily and weekly summaries. Also integrates with my Withings scale so my morning weigh-in result gets beamed directly to my Lose It account (and Training Peaks too). MFP might do all this as well, but have been very happy with Lose It.

 

Looks like it's been a while since I've updated my apps better get on that!  Thanks for the info.

morpheus

I've been using Lose It since you guys have helped me out.

I think they are all very good. But, I'm a finding the Lose It app a little more user friendly, just for me.

Only having one problem with it....it's allowing me about 100 cal too little in the daily budget every day. Clearly, the app has a glitch and is miscalculating.....

morpheus

As I mentioned on the Dashboard, I'm 2 weeks into the mindful eating and logging, using Lose It right now.

It is very motivating to squeeze in one extra short workout to earn calories. Also, knowing that I'm going to have to search and log a food or treat seems to deter me from actually getting it from the plate to the mouth.

All in all, a success. At first, I thought it would be too much of a P.I.T.A. to do, not so much now.

MattAaronson

I use trainingpeaks. It tracks macro and micronutrients. The USDA database is very good although the "community" database has some questionable entries. For recipes I cook at home I use NutritionData to tabulate the stats for the food, then set it up as a new food in TP.

Geoff P

Lose It really has gotten better, especially the new scanner. Scanned my bottle of Sam Adams Winter last night while cooking dinner! Like others have said, if you enter the values, it does indeed track fat, carbs, and protein.

My only wish is that it had a "water intake" tab or something. Hydration is something I want to focus on this year. 

Also, with all these apps, I think the PITA is homemade food. We cook alot, and it's a hassle to enter in recipes and such. Or, yesterday, the chef at my favorite cafe threw together a beautiful penne dish with chicken, kale, tomatoes, kalamata olives, and a thousand other things. I just looked at it and thought, "How the heck will I enter this!"

[Deleted User]

I deal with this in two ways - create a new recipe in lose it, entering just the significant ingredients (meat, grains, beans, etc - anything with significant calories) and skip all the spices and other minor ingredients. That speeds things up a little. I also have a custom food called "SWAG" and gave it 100 calories per serving. If I really need to ballpark a given meal I select "SWAG" and adjust the number of servings as needed. No nutrient breakdown for the SWAG "food" though.

Coach Rich

Posted By Chris Hardbeck on 23 Dec 2011 06:26 AM



It is very motivating to squeeze in one extra short workout to earn calories. 

 

That's the power of tools like this:

1. You quickly realize that exercising earns you the right to not be starving all the time. This leads to discipline on the "get out the door" side of the equation.
2. You also quickly realize that eating that donut is exactly the same as shitcanning 40' of your 60' run

Geoff P

Posted By Jim Daley on 05 Jan 2012 10:39 AM

I deal with this in two ways - create a new recipe in lose it, entering just the significant ingredients (meat, grains, beans, etc - anything with significant calories) and skip all the spices and other minor ingredients. That speeds things up a little. I also have a custom food called "SWAG" and gave it 100 calories per serving. If I really need to ballpark a given meal I select "SWAG" and adjust the number of servings as needed. No nutrient breakdown for the SWAG "food" though.

Great idea, Jim. And good point about entering only significant ingredients. Not entering tablespoons of herbs and spices will definitely speed things up!