Why Fitday?

[heatherhitz]

I just tried it out & I thought it was to much time concuming! I would put what I ate and there info would all be wrong. I then tried doing it manual & thought do I have to do this with everything I eat... Is there another way of doing this that I dont know about?

[chinadoll]

Re: Why Day Fit?

It is best to add ingredients individually but as you do it more often, the site saves your recent entries so if you tend to eat the same things, they will be far easier to enter. Also it becomes less cumbersome out of habit. You may not like doing it, but when starting, many people don't realize just how many carbs they are eating unless they chart it all. It can be very helpful in the long term.

[liv]

Re: Why Day Fit?

I think if you add raw ingredients is is fairly easy. But do not use their compound recipes (such as scrambled eggs) Add eggs, butter, bacon, cheese etc. Their raw ingredients are very accurate based on the us database.

[heatherhitz]

Re: Why Day Fit?

Oh ok!!! Look's like im gonna have to look into it... THANKS!!!

[Georgiana]

Re: Why Day Fit?

I would put what I ate and there info would all be wrong.

What exactly is wrong?

[bizzlekitty]

Re: Why Fitday?

What I typically do is enter the food I ate as specifically as possible (ex. beef, raw or broccoli, raw) and then select it. Once I have all the foods in there, I go back and put in the quantities.

You can also look at previous days food and add them to your daily food. Look for the "View Recent Foods" link. This will take you to another page where you can see previous foods and select them to add to today's list. I found this works well, especially if you eat similar things alot of the time.

Don't forget to set up a nutritional goal for dietary fiber. This will make it easier to calculate your net carbs.

I also use it to track weight, activities and body size.

[james_brooks]

Re: Why Fitday?

Don't forget to set up a nutritional goal for dietary fiber. This will make it easier to calculate your net carbs.

So does dietary fibre = your net carbs = what you have to keep to max 20 on induction ?

[atkinsgal08]

Re: Why Fitday?

>>So does dietary fibre = your net carbs = what you have to keep to max 20 on induction ?>>

Dietary fiber does not equal your neb carbs.

On Fitday, total carbs minus fiber equals net carbs.

[Elizellen]

Re: Why Fitday?

No, net carbs is what we count onAtkins.

In fact in UK our nutrition labels dont even count fibre as being a carbohydrate at all, so our labels already indicate 'net carbs' in the 'total carbs' section, and the fibre is listed separately later in the label.

In USA and some other countries they do include fiber as a carbohydrate so they have to take the fiber off to get their 'net carbs'

So for US-style labels (and fitday which is based on the USDA database)
Total carbs - fiber carbs = net carbs

[james_brooks]

Re: Why Fitday?

Ahh cool - thanks for the clarification! woop!

[Carbonator]

Re: Why Fitday?

If you find that you don't like Fitday, try out fatsecret. That is what I use and I think its awesome and super user friendly. It calculates net carbs for you and it interfaces with my Android cell phone.

It saves most recently eaten food items for each meal catagory and you can also save meals with all ingredients and name it so its a one click add feature to quickly recall meals you eat often.

[james_brooks]

Re: Why Fitday?

Hmm...is there anything like that which works with iPhone I wonder?

[Carbonator]

Re: Why Fitday?

Yeah, actually Fatsecret has an iphone app.

[poobears1972]

Re: Why Fitday?

I agree with OP I can not get fitday to work well enough to use. It's horribly slow and tedious.

[pstansel]

Re: Why Fitday?

The iPhone app is actually very cool, although it crashes a lot