Does My Fitness Pal Count more than Calories? - 3 Fat Chicks on a Diet Weight Loss Community

lifesigns · 12-16-2012, 12:17 AM

Just got the my fitness pal for my phone . . . still trying to figure it out . . .does it count just calories . . . or carbs, fats and proteins?

Is there any App out there that will help with this, especially the carbs?

kmac1196 · 12-16-2012, 07:03 AM

I use Loseit! It counts everything. And lets you add your own recipes. And you can have friends and join challenges and earn badges. Love it! Oh, and it has a scanner so if you have the bar code of the food you want, you can scan it with your phone and it goes in instantly.

toobig · 12-16-2012, 07:32 AM

MFP counts everything. Use the home tab and then the daily tab.

Thedollylala · 12-16-2012, 08:40 AM

And you can make your own recipes as well on mfp

lifesigns · 12-16-2012, 02:30 PM

Thanks girls, I'll try to figure out fitness pal, and look at Lose it as well, to see what is easier for me to do . . . I'm sort of computer and app slow . . . but I know it has worked for some and I want to make it work for me.

Does anyone know how many carbs we should have a day . . . those are what I am worried about as per my pre-diabetes . . . or do the apps tell us???

TripSwitch · 12-18-2012, 01:13 AM

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Originally Posted by lifesigns

Thanks girls, I'll try to figure out fitness pal, and look at Lose it as well, to see what is easier for me to do . . . I'm sort of computer and app slow . . . but I know it has worked for some and I want to make it work for me.

Does anyone know how many carbs we should have a day . . . those are what I am worried about as per my pre-diabetes . . . or do the apps tell us???

I would discuss that with your doctor or an RD if at all possible... and the ADA site might be of some help with that as well...

LizzieM · 12-28-2012, 09:36 PM

Yes..... Mfp has everything. and a HUGE database. and for my foods (Indian) Mfp has them!! :O
And loseit! does not

plus in mfp friends are too cool. you can just send someone a friendreq with message that you'd love to be wtloss buddies and they accept it soon. but in loseit! people don't

I have ALL my friends use mfp. So, I go by mfp

And you can google search once about amount of carbs etc needed.

Ok?

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