Hello folks!

I am a longtime WWer who has recently started CCing in addition, as a way of monitoring my food and nutritional intake beyond what WW offers.

I have been using Sparkpeople for the past couple of months and for the most part I really like CCing and tracking in this way.

An issue has been mentioned on the 3FC WW board among some of us who CC and I thought I would ask over here and see if any of you more experienced CCers had any input to offer.

Basically, do any of the free tracking sites allow you to customize your daily targets for calories consumed and exercise? I usually have a higher calorie day at least once a week and may go outside my target range on that day, but my average caloric intake for the week is well within my range.

The same with exercise. Spark asks how many minutes of activity I get per day and applies that figure to all the days, whereas some days I may run for 30 minutes and that'll be it, and then the next day bike for 2 hours. So while on certain days I will be under target, over the course of the week I will have met my goal.

Obviously it's not really a big deal in the scheme of things because I know what I'm doing over the course of the week and it's all averaging out anyway. For those of you in the same boat, how do you handle it?

TIA!

I haven't used sparkspeople, so I guess I don't really understand the questions, but I can tell you what I do.

I use fitday.com. It has tools to help you develop your calorie goals, and a places to track your food and your exercise, but it doesn't really tell you whether you've gone over or not. It has all sorts of reports that show you how well you've met your goals, but that's after the fact. As far as I can tell, there isn't a place to set exercise goals, just places to tell you how much you've done once you've entered the info. I'm not sure if that's making any sense.

I use My Fitness Pal. It calculates your daily target WITHOUT exercise (you still put in whether you are sedentary, active etc just based on your daily activity - desk job vs. mailman type of thing.

Then on the days you exercise, you enter that into the app or website, and it increases your calories for the day. (Your target is already set taking a deficit into account.)

On the app (not sure about the site) it gives you a weekly chart of your daily totals and average cals over or under for the week, taking your exercise into account.

Hope this helps!