Do you track what you eat? if so, how

remims
on 4/11/08 12:56 am - UT
I scanned the food diary daily sheet the docs gave me as part of our info package, reduced it and printed it off to use in my planner.
crashing_sux
on 4/11/08 4:03 pm - Portland, OR
VSG on 05/10/08 with
I've used Fitday online, Fitday local, and Calorie King local. I prefer calorie king but a critical feature all of them are missing for me is the ability to enter negative foods.

If I go to Burger King and have a Whopper (no, won't be doing that anymore, but in the past I did) I eat it without Mayo. This has a large effect on the calories, and if I could just enter
Whopper x 1
tbsp Mayo x -1 I would be good to go, bug instead I have to build the burger from scratch, meat, lettuce, buns, tomatoe, ketchup, etc.

I have asked both of their programmers to add this simple feature (all they have to do is stop rejecting negative numbers) but they don't even respond to me. As a programmer myself it's a shame to see them neglect such an important and easy to implement feature.

After all, it's software mostly used by dieters, and how many dieter out there ask for a normal meal, "hold the mayo" or "hold the cheese" etc to reduce our calories?
Boner
on 4/11/08 9:23 pm - South of Boulder, CO
I used fitday online for over a year post-WLS and liked it a lot. For a "negative food" as you described I would just create a custom food such as "whopper w/o mayo." Enter it once as one item (just excluding the mayo calories, fat, etc.) then use it over and over. Boner 
crashing_sux
on 4/12/08 5:10 am - Portland, OR
VSG on 05/10/08 with
That's exactly what I do, create a custom food. It would just be a lot faster to be able to negate one component of a meal already in their database.
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