Fitday
 

Who here uses fitday?
why do you use fitday? (calorie/fat/carb count/water count/exercise/calories burned etc..)
Do you feel that it says you burn so much more calories than you would ever try to eat as your sure you would gain weight?

whats with that the average adult only burns 2000 kcals, but fitday says I burn like 400 more than that.

my fitday is in my sig, I find it so damn useful but so confusing

Fitday thinks I burn around 3400 calories per day with exercise. I think it's crazy in that regard though. I eat around 1100-1200 calories most days and I only lose 1 pound per week. If I really burned 3400 calories per day then I would lose a pound every day and a half. Not happening, so I figure that fitday must be wrong.

I use it so that I know how much I eat. It keeps me more in control of my diet if I have to be forced to type in what I ate for that day. I also like the graphs.

SNAP! I love the graphs! and using it to keep track of what I eat

I got the pc version. it made me crazy though because mathematically I should have been buring more. I used the online version before that, It wasn't bad either. I just used the weight log now so I can see the graph of how much I've lost. It is a good tool if you don't let the numbers get to you.

I use it every day to record what I eat, whether I am "dieting," bingeing, or whatever. It's just something that keeps me from letting myself go. This whole thing about it overestimating calories burned is new to me, but it might be true. According to fitday, I should have lost 4 lbs in 4 weeks, but really I only lost 2-3 (depending on the day.)

I use it to record food (I count calories) and exercise. I find my calories burned to be fairly accurate. The walking ones are acutally low compared to the treamill. I have my lifestyle set at seated and add in sleep. That reduces your calories burned ALOT. I really like the graphs too.

I use it almost daily for a weight log and for calories. I have the PC version which I bought back when I had dial-up and still find it very handy to not have to go on the Net all the time. ( I think the calories burned section is pure crap, by the way, and just ignore it.)

i did use fitday for a while but found the descriptions used for food and for exercise were unrealistic for me. i had to manually enter a lot of custom foods to really get the calories i was eating and didn't feel the descriptions for exercise were what i was doing. perhaps because it is US info for the food.

i have created my own spreadsheet now for both exercise and food and use that instead.

I have fitday pc, and I love it for keeping up my calories. I also track my weight loss and measurements....The pc version is a lot better than the internet version. Its pretty accurate for me because I customize everything, I have lost 15 pounds using it so far.

I used Fitday a number of months ago (online version only). Not right now because I don't have reliable computer access and not enough time to post and check everything.
Liked it, though I was always sceptical about their calorie counts.

omg Thank you StacyLambert!! I didnt think of putting in sleep to reduce my calories that I burn, its starting to look more normal, like 1997 a day! even thought If I ate that amount I know Id gain! woohoo!

Thanks everyone aswell!

i usually make the fitday window smaller, and put the calorieking window right next to it and make sure the calories are the same. calorieking has a ton more foods, and more brand name foods, so i know that the calories are the same. usually when i'm eating something, i will look at the serving size and calories, so that when i log it into fitday, i know that it's the right amount of calories.

example, a large WW tortilla is definitely more calories than the ones that i buy, so i make sure to say that i'm only eating a medium tortilla (when actually i'm eating a large one) because the calories are more accurate. i don't really go by the calories burned because i find that inaccurate, and go more by what the gym says. i like *********** better for their fitness because they have more options with exercising.

if we could have calorieking's food database and ***********s exercise database in fitday's format, life would be good!!!

OMG - thanks for the sleeping tip - I never would have thought of that - that makes it so much more accurate!

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.

Basal calories burned are the calories you burn just from living and breathing, if you were to be confined to bed rest.