Fitday

I just dont understand how to do that program.. How do you monitor topping off 2 pieces of pizza, 4 bites of a baked potato... I tried it before and couldnt figure it out.. thought i would try it again thinking I eat enough now for it to work.. I still dont get it.. help me.

I know what you mean. The only values I trust are the ones I've put in. You just never know if the toppings of the pizza you ate are nutritionally the same as the pizza you find on there. Where do I find the nutrional value for a Sugar Free Vanilla Latte w/ 2%milk?? I completely understand your frustrations. Mandy

I enter in a LOT of stuff myself. I have built up a huge inventory of custom foods that are usually found in my kitchen. I usually only use there stuff for like fresh veggies and such. When I eat out I try my best to find places that supply nutritional info and enter it in myself. It's amazing if you search the web how many restaurants actually offer this information. If I end up at a place that doesn't supply the info I do my best to find a comparable restaurant that does or then I turn to the information from fitday or other calorie counting type websites. I have been religious about fitday and measuring from the beginning. Every meal I cook - every ingredient I use - I write on a little tab of paper I keep in the kitchen and then after dinner I get on my computer and figure out how the nut value for that meal and put it into fitday. It's a lot of work - but I truely actually enjoy it. And hubby has really caught on to monitoring his calories too. I will offer a disclaimer that I am an accountant - so perhaps I am predisposed to enjoying such ridiculous tasks as calorie counting! Check out sparkpeople.com It's like fitday but seems to have some better choices for pre-determined nutritional info. It's a little harder to figure out at first but it has a lot more features then fitday!

I just entered in my day.. 407 calories yesterday, I accounted for everything. to get a portion, you can used .25 for a quarter serving. so I had 1/4 of a slice of bread, I used .25 if I had 2 oz and the only measurement choices is cup, I put down .25... if I had less, then I say .2 cup HTH