What Online Daily Journal Do You Use?

[gonnabskinny]

There are lots of online calorie/carb counting and fitness journals out there. Which one do you use? What do you like about it and what do you not like about it? What features do you wish it had?

I have not found one that is perfect for Atkins, but there are many good ones.

The one I use is my-calorie-counter.com The thing I like about it, is it seems to have more selections in the menu to choose from, even many name brands. I also like that on the custom membership (extra upcharge) it has lots of charts and graphs. It will calculate the percentage of fat/protein/carb calories, etc. You can also add customized food options, and it keeps a list on the journal page of your most recent food choices. I also like that you input it by meal of the day, breakfast, lunch, snack, or dinner. It also tracks your water intake and exercise.

Dislikes, there is no way to share your online journal with others (like fitday). You have to be a member of my-calorie-counter.com in order to have access. No quite as user friendly from that aspect.

I also found the USDA site useful to find out nutritional value, whenever there is a dispute on various sites as to the actual counts. www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/foodcomp/search/

[cincywbbw]

Re: What Online Daily Journal Do You Use?

I am totaly stuck on fitfay, it allows you to enter your own lables and foods. Tells ya how much weight ya got to loose and how many days it will take ya to loose it to reach a certian goal.

[Lyssie]

Re: What Online Daily Journal Do You Use?

thedailyplate. It calculates how many calories per day based on how many pounds per week (yes, I know we don't track calories), and then it tells you how many calories you have left to eat for the day. So for me, I try to eat at least 1600 calories, so I have it set for that..

Oh, and you can track fitness, a journal for each day, charts/graphs, a weekly overview of how much you ate, water, percentages, and it has a *ton* of brand name foods, plus you can put in whatever else you want, *and* you can make your own recipes, so like, for PBCC or my pumpkin cheesecake thing, I only have to hit one thing to include them instead of 4. Oh, and it also has measurement tracking too. And you can print weekly/daily *printable* versions of what you ate.

It beats the lowcarber one since it has the water, more brand names and recipes... which I think tops Fitday.

Anyway, I <3 the site. *and* it's free.

[flugger]

Re: What Online Daily Journal Do You Use?

I use Fitday, PC Version, but it really annoys me that Fitday doesn't seem to have Sugars information for foods. Am I missing this or something ? It's been baffling me for months.

[sadie147]

Re: What Online Daily Journal Do You Use?

Like Lyssie, I also use thedailyplate. I was a 2 year fitday user but find this site has many more foods (especially brand names, including canadian ones), and i don't have to do nearly as many custom foods. and when you do add a food yourself it becomes public so others can see/use it as well.

I actually paid $25 for the gold membership which gives you custome measurement tracking and nutritional labels etc. I'm a huge fan of this site for tracking.