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01-22-2010, 12:58 PM
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Loser :-)
Thread Starter
Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: Seattle-ish
Posts: 707
S/C/G: 273/251/175
Height: 5ft8
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Which online calorie calculator do you use?
Are they all about same? I am looking for something that is super user friendly and easy to use.
I appreciate your help!!
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01-22-2010, 01:01 PM
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Calorie counter
Join Date: Nov 2009
Posts: 5,679
Height: 5'4.5"
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I just discovered caloriecounter.about.com. You can put a family recipe in there and it spits out an analysis! Very cool.
I haven't found any I'm particularly thrilled with for entering in one food item. I like fitday, but if I enter "egg", for instance, I have to sift through hundreds of different preparations and I think it lists the egg's family tree. LOL! I don't care who its parents are, I just want to know how many calories are in an egg! 
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01-22-2010, 01:03 PM
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dirty labour daughter
Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: urbana, IL
Posts: 35
S/C/G: 250/250/125
Height: 5'10"
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i use fitday.com, but i almost exclusively enter custom foods - they simply don't have a lot of the things i eat in their databank!
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01-22-2010, 01:06 PM
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is recommitted
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Central Florida
Posts: 860
S/C/G: 338/see sig/150
Height: 5'6"
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I use the Daily Plate on livestrong. They just put out a new beta and I rather like it. It makes putting food in a lot easier than the old one, but you don't always get to see the descriptions.
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01-22-2010, 01:09 PM
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#5
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Senior Member
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: In La-La Land
Posts: 3,846
S/C/G: 297/198/190
Height: 5'8"
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I use fitday even though it's a pain. I'm a creature of habit. The nice thing is that once you've entered a lot of custom foods you can use the "see my recent foods" and it's pretty straightforward. The bad thing is I'm too lazy to input nutrition info on the custom foods-- I just put the calories.
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01-22-2010, 01:10 PM
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#6
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Senior Member
Join Date: Dec 2009
Posts: 2,020
S/C/G: 263/ticker/156
Height: 5'7"
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I use Fitday. I have had decent luck finding things but sometimes you have to try both the search and the browse feature to find what you are looking for. I also have created a lot of custom foods, but the nice thing is that once you create it, it's always there and easily found the next time. At this point, almost everything I eat is on my current foods list, so it's mostly go back through those, and sometimes adjusting the portion sizes.
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01-22-2010, 01:32 PM
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One day at a time!
Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: The deep south
Posts: 4,349
S/C/G: 301/see ticker/160
Height: 5' 2"
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Second for the Daily Plate
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01-22-2010, 01:35 PM
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Argh.
Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: Alaska
Posts: 1,430
S/C/G: 308/273/175
Height: 5'9"
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I'm a Fitday user - have had it for years. I am something of a geek, though - I use the PC version on my desktop. I use the online account so I can add stuff from work or somewhere else and then sync with my computer later. I don't have trouble finding things because I type much of it in the item box.
By and large I really like it, though I agree that Fitday would do well to have more regular food database updates.
Last edited by calluna; 01-22-2010 at 02:40 PM.
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01-22-2010, 01:35 PM
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Ready for Change
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: East Coast, USA
Posts: 239
S/C/G: 216.6 / 208.2 / 116
Height: 5'1
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Third for the Daily Plate. I LOVE it! I even have the app for my Blackberry and the two synch together.
Last edited by SNMomof1; 01-22-2010 at 01:36 PM.
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01-22-2010, 01:42 PM
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Hi From Canada, eh?
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Canada, eh?
Posts: 2,370
S/C/G: check the ticker :)
Height: 5'8
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i use Fitday as well, and like others have said, for the most part i made my own 'custom' foods, it was easier than going through a dozen pages to find the right one LOL and as I'm a creature of habit and eat the same things a lot it's super easy to plug it in now! I still get a little jolt of elation when i plug everything in and realize i have 200 cals left to go LOL
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01-22-2010, 01:56 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Dec 2009
Posts: 434
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4th for the Daily Plate. Their new version just rolled out a month or so ago and it's amazing. Super fast to input. There has never been a packaged or restaurant chain food I want to input that isn't in the DB.
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01-22-2010, 02:00 PM
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#12
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Senior Member
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Tennessee
Posts: 803
S/C/G: 220/220/175
Height: 5'-8"
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5th for the daily plate. A lot of times I eat the same meals especially for breakfast and it allows me to save food combos as meals and I can just plug them in as I go. The simplier the more I will use it!!!
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01-22-2010, 02:48 PM
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Cute and fun to be with
Join Date: Mar 2004
Posts: 479
S/C/G: 250/ticker/125
Height: 5' 5.5"
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I recently switched from Fitday to the Daily Plate. Like others I found the convenience of having the foods I eat already in the database too alluring to pass up.
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01-22-2010, 03:05 PM
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Argh.
Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: Alaska
Posts: 1,430
S/C/G: 308/273/175
Height: 5'9"
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I decided to check it out too. I'm going to use them side by side for a while and see which I prefer in the long run.
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01-22-2010, 04:43 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Central Texas
Posts: 319
S/C/G: 203/193/155
Height: 5'2"
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I use Fitday. I enjoy knowing that no, I am not getting enough potassium.
Maybe the other sites do that as well, but Fitday and I have been together for so long already.
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