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Originally Posted by par12199
Hello ladies....
I am interested in using Fitday to help in my weightloss and I have a question. How do you figure up the cals and stuff with recipes that don't have all that info? I hope you understand what I am asking. I usually post to the JC forum, but I think I am going to post here too. You guys have a great forum.
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I created a blank template in Excel that has columns for each of the Fitday attributes (calories, fat, saturated fat, cholesterol, protein, fiber, etc etc). The first column is blank, this is where I add each ingredient. For example, if I'm trying to find the recipe for home made pasta sauce, I would have the following rows: tomato, sun dried tomato, morning star farm veggie crumbles, mushrooms, cooking wine, olive oil. I would fill in each column for each ingredient.
When I'm done, I use Excel to sum the totals for each Fitday category column (total number of calories - adding all ingredients up, total amount of fat --adding all ingredients up, etc).
Then, I open Fitday and create a new custom food. I name the food and then enter all the totals. This gives me the total for the recipe. If the recipe makes 4 servings, when I add the food to a day's menu, I enter a serving size of .25 (1/4 of the total).
It sounds hard, but it's just time consuming. I hear that the PC version is MUCH easier for this. Now that I've been using Fitday for 6 months, I have nearly all my normal custom recipes entered so it's much easier.