Howdy,
I like Nutrition Menu. I can enter foods ahead of day which helps me plan my meals easily. I like the graphing of weight. I don't like the calorie left over display and don't like the way the data transfers to the computer. I am going to a help session tomorrow night and will post if I find something else. Even with these draw backs, I like it better than LoseIt which I also have.
Some people complain about limited data base which i find is moot because I can always hunt it down on the web or input my own custom calories via a recipe analyzer. Restaurants are nice for calories of restaurants. Lost 14# doing this since October 6.
Karen
I love the Live Strong Daily Plate App. It syncs with the online free version really easily, and it is fast an simple to use. It costs $1.99 or $2.99. You can search for foods really easily, and it keeps track of the foods you have eaten recently.
There are a few very minor glitches in the program- sometimes you have to edit your serving sizes after you have "saved" a food entry, but it's not really that inconvenient.
1) you input your weight, height, goal weight, # of lbs you want to lose per week and it sets a base calorie for you to eat every day adjustable)
2) you record your breakfast, lunch, dinner, snack with the foods already in the search (once you search a food and record it, it's in your permanent list for future reference)
3) you can record your exercise/activity with the ones already listed or make your own "customized" activity
4) you can input custom foods not found in the search
5) you can save recipes with the different ingredients that you make often and auto choose it for your meal
6) you can see nutritional break down of fat%/carb%/protein%, fiber, saturated fats of the day, week =D
7) it has general supermarket brands and restaurant food items so it's a great reference point
thats just a few things that come with the app! it's VERY useful and I can't live without it.
Howdy,
I have to report a negative after all for Nutrition Menu. I had a training session last night with new iMac and specifically addressed the issues with this app. The email journal sent to my mailbox is the nutrition data embedded in a text message not as an attachment. Therefore, it can't open into a graph, spread sheet, or many of the other things I want to do with the data. In addition, it can't be backed up to the computer or even MobileMe, which I have. So if I were to lose my iTouch, I would not have a way of saving this data somewhere else.
The Mac trainer used LiveStrong, a $3.99 app (expensive in the app world) and we briefly looked at Fitday. LoseIt is one of the most popular apps but does it have these same limitations- lack of data analysis, back up, device specific (i.e. no login account) and inability to enter foods ahead of time? I had 4 parties 2 weeks ago and preplanning was essential. It is also very nice being able to use the app without Wifi which Nutrition Menu (NM) does. I use this feature all of the time.
I haven't settled on what app I plan on doing. I will need to email the programmers about these serious limitations. I knew when I started the NM data management was a vague area. 14# down was worth just doing it but with the start of a new year, a new computer, and the realization I will be doing this for the rest of my life, I need something better.
Karen
i think lose it is the best calorie tracker out there. but it took too much time for me to constantly enter in everything i ate all the time. i only tracked like half of what i ate, so it didn't work as i would've liked. i recently downloaded intell-diet for iphone and i really like it so far. you should check it out if you want an alternative to calorie tracking
Calorie Tracker App for I Phone?
