Re: healthy log-better food journal
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Chansonette
CA
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01/05/2006 Total Posts: 315
2.4 Years Ago
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Some of us use www.sparkpeople.com for the food logging aspect, and then just enter the day's total calories into the FJ food log -- easy to do,and that way on the one site (sparkpeople) you're tracking your calories and all the nutritional content that's important to you, but you can take advantage of FJ's daily calorie report on your FJ home page -- to see whether you went over or under (there's nothing like that on Spark). Something else to consider. |
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Re: healthy log-better food journal
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Michele
ca
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06/01/2006 Total Posts: 9
2.4 Years Ago
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A really great site to track calories is Calorieking.com. I wonder if some we can't upload information from that site to this one?? If so, it would be great!!
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Tri Geek
MN
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02/20/2007 Total Posts: 459
1.7 Years Ago
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Well,
I've looked at a few sites and am going to try sparkpeople because it's free to start and fairly comprehensive in terms of food lists. It will take time to post all calories and make use of regularly. But I think its an educational process that is learned over time.
I'll check back in a week or so with feedback.
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Steve
MN
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08/30/2006 Total Posts: 47
1.7 Years Ago
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Wow. I finally went to SparkPeople and I see why people use that for tracking food. Very slick. You can even save items that are not in their DB for later recall. Same for meals or "groupings". For example, if I frequently have one Dannon Yogurt cup, mixed with .5 cup milk, .5 cup granola, and 1 scoop protein powder, I can enter that as a grouping and just grab it off the list every time I have that concoction for breakfast. Very impressive. (Or as they'd say here in MN, "Oh for useful!). The site itself is pretty cluttered and busy. I much prefer the FJ look. Also, unless I'm missing something, SparkPeople only gives you room to enter 3 meals and 1 snack. So for those of us doing the 5-6 small meals thing, that's another reason to calculate there then enter the totals here. |
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Tri Geek
MN
Member Since:
02/20/2007 Total Posts: 459
1.7 Years Ago
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Steve,
Guess I hadn't got beyond entering three meals and a snack yet on sparkpeople. Guess if i have more meals I'll have consolidate under lunch or dinner.
Yes, the spark site is waaaay too busy. But the tool is useful and a good concept for FJ to use if possible. I definitley am into the sleek, non-cluttered, dashboard look.
I'd love to hear more about food journaling, as I am terrible at it. No consistency yet.
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Beverly
MO
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05/31/2005 Total Posts: 1142
1.7 Years Ago
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I'm working on my food journaling too. I use sparkpeople to estimate cal/fat...and then transfer totals to FJ as Chansonette suggested. It is a busy website and sometimes a bit cumbersome but, hey, it's free and gives me a rough estimate. |
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Steve
MN
Member Since:
08/30/2006 Total Posts: 47
1.7 Years Ago
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I've used SparkPeople today and yesterday and continue to be impressed with the features and extent of their DB.
Greg, I'm terrible about tracking food too. I thought I'd try it just for this current challenge, but I've been inconsistent at best. In week 4, I gave up entirely, figuring I'd gained a rough feel for how much to eat at each meal ... and bam! gained 3-4 pounds that week. So much for that. When I'm keeping track, I find that I've been ending up short towards the end of the day, becuase I resist eating things I can't easily record. When I'm not keeping track, it's very easy to go over my calorie target. Hopefully SparkPeople will make the task just easy enough for me to stick with it all week. This week- so far so good. Everything accounted for starting with Monday.
Beverly, credit where credit is due - I think you recommended SparkPeople to me weeks ago, and I didn't bother, thinking that using two sites would be too cumbersome. But you're right. It makes it significantly easier. Thanks. |
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Sue
QL
Member Since:
02/01/2007 Total Posts: 38
1.7 Years Ago
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Weigh (pun) too hard for this little black duck, ask beverly i had enough of a challenge just finding the challenge let alone going elsewhere if anyone can give simple an i mean simple directions then feel free to help.
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Laura
OH
Member Since:
01/02/2007 Total Posts: 87
1.7 Years Ago
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I decided to join in and check out sparkpeople.com also. I do like the site. I know I have to track my food and this will help a lot. I am being aggressive on my weight loss goals, and therefore the calories they are giving me a day are too low (1300). Yesterday I had a heavy workout day, and burned approx 1700-1800 so I make adjustments. Maybe I need to be more realistic with my goals. |
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Todd
CT
Member Since:
04/11/2006 Total Posts: 121
1.7 Years Ago
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A great website I have been using is Nutritiondata.com It has an extensive food data base and an option to add your own items. All is saved with a user name and password for access anywhere. Once you build up your pantry it's a snap to analyze entire meals for placement into FJ.
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Susan
WV
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11/13/2006 Total Posts: 2
1.7 Years Ago
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I agree with you. Have you tried www.myfooddiary.com? It's a great site and only costs less than $10.00/monthly. Good luck. Any tips on how to get back on track? I've been eating everything in sight. lol |
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Steph
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05/29/2007 Total Posts: 138
17.8 Months Ago
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Susan - I've used www.myfooddiary.com and I think the food journal there is brilliant. It would be great if Chris could do something similar on here as the food journal is the weakest part of the site I feel. |
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