I too was not aware of the sleeping tip, thanks! I use fitday to track my foods but I especially love the journal part. I can keep track of what I am feeling when I eat. I am an emotional eater who needs to learn what my triggers are...
Fitday's good, except the way they calculate basal metabolic rate is way way off. So I basically ignore that part, and put in my calories, and time exercised, just so I know generally how I'm doing.
Basically I use it to count my calories more than anything. I do also use it for my weight but I think the exercise calories burned that it says isn't true because it always comes out that I burn so many more than I ate which doesn't make sense.. But it is a useful tool for calorie counting...
Out of curiosity I just checked out fitday... I've been trying it out for a couple of days, but i have a question:
My main frustration with it is that *it* tells you what kind of measurement you have to use. You can't seem to change it. An example: I had 1 tbsp of blue cheese on my salad today, but it will only let me input an amount in cups or cubic inches. So I have to put in 0.07 cups, as that's the closest I can get to a tablespoon. What the heck's up with that? There's no way to change this, is there? I've encountered that for a few other foods too... like cottage cheese. Sometimes I just have a couple of tablespoons of cottage cheese on something, for a protien boost.... But I end up dividing decimals to the end of tomorrow so I can input it!!
Oh, and my other question... a little more specific. When I eat oatmeal, I have 1/3c dry oats with 3/4c water added. So when I put it into FitDay, the food I select is "Cereals, oats, regular and quick and instant, without fortified, cooked with water, without salt, (oats)"... This refers to cooked oatmeal, so I should put in the after-adding-water amount, right? 3/4c rather than 1/3? To me it's ambiguous...
I'd like to use this tool, but I'm finding it frustrating!!
Jaime - unfortunately, those are pretty much problems you're going to run in to with any of the diet softwares. I input a lot of my own food, which means that I can customize the serving size measurements as well. After you do this, it becomes a lot more personalized.
Ah, that's a good idea. It'll work with the cottage cheese problem at least. Not so for the blue cheese.... Since that doesn't have nutrition info on the package! I already inputted (is input the past participle of input, or is inputted??) a couple of things for custom foods, seems like a good way to be more accurate. Thanks for the tip!
You have to add a modifier to "input" like --have--, ah those years at journalism school... they continue to serve me so well... anywho, good luck with all that customizing, it does take a while!
Can anyone tell me what basal means on one of the graphs???
I've been using the online version for a while now, and I just use it to help me keep track of the foods that I eat, and for the graphs. I don't really take it seriously, but instead use it as my check-and-balance thing for the day when I feel like I ate too much or too little.
