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Fitday...
I was just wanting some of your opinions on how you like Fitday. I'm going to start an account tomorrow, and wondering how you knew the right calorie range to start out with? Another site that I post on, and they also have a calorie tracker on it, always keeps my calorie range at 1200-1550, and I don't know if it's correct or not. I would love any input, thanks!;)
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Hey Michelle, i know you from another thread (1 pound down....) anyway. I use fitday and i like it quite bit. I think your cals sound right but you just have to mess around with it. There is a sweet spot that you have to find. If i dont eat enough, i dont lose...then of course eating too much i dont lose either. I have lost my sweet spot lately....only around 1 pound a week...when i hit it just right i lose 3-4 pounds a week, but from what i have found it all depends on how much exercise you do, what type of exercise you do, what time of the month it is....the list goes on and on...but i think your numbers sound good.
My biggest rules are exercise, exercise, exercise...makes all the difference in the world...unfortunately. And i NEVER eat a carb without eating a protien with it. |
:wave: STACY...Thanks for responding. You're right, I will just have to start with an amount, maybe a little higher, and work with it from there. I definitely need to restart my exercise again tomorrow morning, and I always do my WATP dvds, love them!;) :hug:
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I love fitday. It takes some getting used to but you can do all kinds of things with custom foods and they will stay in there for you to select forever!
Let's wait until you get all your info in there (height and weight) and see what your 'basal' is. |
:wave: SUSAN...Thanks for your response. I did just set up my Fitday account, and it gave me a calorie range of 2200, which I know is way too high for me to lose weight, so I set mine to start with 1600 a day, and then go from there. What do you think with that amount? A couple of other ladies here said that's what they started out with when they were at my beginning weight, even though I'm a little lower than that now, and we're all also hypothyroid. Did you set a goal weight by a certain time on there? I can see that Fitday will take some time of getting used to, but I'm excited to get going. Any suggestions that you have, I'd be glad to know about, and thank you again!;)
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I really like Fitday - I like being accountable & I love seeing how many calories I really use in a day. Suddenly, housework is much more fun when I think of it as calories burned instead of drudgery. My only issues are the exercise choices - I use the elliptical & burn a lot of calories doing level 6-10 (I made it to level 12 last night) so I have to code it in as running since there's no elliptical option. I do record the mileage accurately so I can keep track of how "far" I've gone on the thing & I dink around with it til the calories in Fitday are close to what the readout on the elliptical says. My other issue is custom foods, but that's been good for me in a way because I really have to think about what I'm eating and if it's worth the calories from a nutritional standpoint.
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:wave: I went in and looked at your Fitday, and I LOVE how you write at the top of your menu each day what your day has been like, and I also love your outgoing attitude!;) Where on Fitday do you write in everything so it shows up at the top of the page? Thanks for your help!:D
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Hi! I use the journal page every morning & update as I go through my day - I am assuming that's how I make that happen since I am far from technically gifted when it comes to Fitday so far! I'm glad someone looked at my Fitday -- thank you! That makes me feel even more accountable,which is a very good thing for me :)
Yup - that's what it is. I went in through the My FitDay link and saw what you all see. Now I'm kinda sorry I didn't record all the calories I got to burn off having sex with my darling spouse *tee hee* |
LOL!!!;) You're too cute, and thanks again for your help!:hug:
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OnePerDecade--I used to use the elliptical every day, too, and I found that in Fitday, the closest to the actual calories my elliptical said I was burning was I think a "ski machine." It was only off by a couple of calories per hour.
I love Fitday--when I actually use it. I tend to "forget" when I'm having a bad food day :devil: |
I have just started using it. So far I LOVE IT!!
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One thing I ran into yesterday was when I was manually entering the frozen green beans I eat and taking the info right from the bag, Fitday wouldn't accept it and every time I tried to enter it, it kept telling me that the calories were wrong for the other info I had input, and they made me cut the calories in half to accept when that wasn't what the bag info showed.:?:
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Green beans should be green beans Michelle. Do yours jive with the ones in fitday itself?
It does do some funny things like that. You'll learn to live with it. I did. |
Does anyone here use the Fitday PC version as to just using the free online version? If so, what do you like about it, and also, did you use the downloaded version only, or pay a little extra to also have the CD that they mail to you? I'm thinking of getting the PC version, but wanted to hear what others have experienced with it first, thank you!:)
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Thanks for the ski machine idea, Jillybean! You're right - the calories are pretty close but there's no mileage option :( For some reason, seeing how many miles I have logged is a major ego boost...but thank you for the suggestion!:thanks: |
When fitday won't accept something because it says the calories don't add up, I usually change the numbers slightly. Often by just raising the protein, carbs, and/or fat by just a few tenths of a point (3.2 grams instead of 3 grams) it will accept it. I heard somewhere here that when products are labeled, if the decimal points are between .0 and .5 the companies can round down, so it makes it seem like there are fewer grams of the fat/carbs/protein. That's probably why calculations aren't accepted straight off the bag sometimes on fitday -- things on the bag are underestimates.
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TARA...Thanks for the info. I'm thinking of purchasing the PC version, but I think if we end up getting a new computer in a few months, I don't know if I would still have the dowloaded PC version for my new computer too, so I shall see.:dizzy:
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I'm a big fan of free ... so I just use the online version. I like that I can hook up anywhere. I record my food at work even .... and .... the free one can be linked here!
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I would have to go back and look at the site to remember what is different |
OK, I looked at the online one again. It is definitely faster to enter foods in the download version, especially custom foods I think.
--and whoops their site isnt loading right now or is loading very slowly. I like that I am not dependent on internet connection and since I work from home, I only am on one computer. Well anyway - I cant remember - for custom food recipes, can you enter recipes and have it calculate or do you have to calculate manually and then enter? The download you can enter recipes and it is less difficult about finding custom foods. If I enter the recipe for my homemade chicken soup, then to enter it I only have to type "hom" and my soup is at the top of the list. Also someone asked about how many calories versus what it tells you - I always have to enter my activity level as "bed bound" to come close to matching how much it SAYS I should be losing to what I do lose. Then I manually enter significant exercise. Guess my metabolism is just low |
ok finally was able to get back on fitday...yeah the recipe entering is the biggie. For that, for me it is totally worth it. I remember on the old one going to a different day, entering all the ingredients, getting the nutritional info for the total and then creating the custom food. Now it is just right there
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Ditto to ennay. For me the Fitday PC is far worth it for the ease of entering custom foods alone. I probably have about 300 custom foods, and I can change the ingredients list in any recipe that I make in just a matter of seconds. I love that part.
I actually do use it on two computers. I either email the user file to myself or put it on my flash drive. It's simple to use on more than one computer, although maybe not as simple as the web based version. |
ENNAY & TAMMY...I really appreciate all of your help! I only have my home computer and I don't work, so I would only need everything just on the home computer. I don't understand what you mean by "flash drive" that you download it to? Also, when I purchase it and download it, where does it actually go to on my computer? I'm sorry, but I'm horrible with computer stuff and I'm afraid I will purchase it and then it won't upload right to my computer. Thank you again for all your help!;) :hug:
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You can choose the location on your hard drive that you want to download to, but you may just want to choose to download it to your desktop so that it's easy to find. Once the executable file downloads just click the icon on the desktop to start installing it. It's very easy.
Don't worry about the flash drive. It's not something you have to have or use, I just use it so I can use my fitday file on more than one computer. It's just a portable drive, similar to a floppy drive or CD. The downside is that you can't make Fitday PC public, and if you've already done things on web-based fitday, you can't import them into fitday PC.:) |
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