My fitness pal is awesome

Does anyone else use my fitness pal or the iPhone app? It is awesome. You can rename your meals (mine are breakfast, lunch, dinner, snacks, protein, vitamins & meds). It makes it very easy to track everything and see how you are doing. Works on smartphones and iPads etc.

I use both and have keyed in lots if my recipes. I didn't know you could rename your meals. Thanks.
I am lerkhart on it.
Linda

I use it as well. Only thing that keeps me honest.

You have to so it from the real computer in settings. Eye opener!

That's interesting that you put protein in it's own category. I never thought of anything but putting them chronologically! Way to think outside the box! 

I have mine as Before 9am, 9am-noon, Noon to 3pm, 3pm-6pm, 6pm-9pm and After 9pm. I want to make sure I am spreading stuff out and that helps me with that. Also, I figure on days I wake up at 11am, I can call what I eat first as Breakfast but maybe I should call it Lunch and it got me all tied up so I changes to the times to avoid having to deal with it.

But some days I put everything into Before 9am or After 9pm because I end up doing them all at the end of the day and I don't necessarily remember what I ate when.

I think I need to revisit the site. Does it get easier the more you use it?

 

I've just used the part of this site that is a tracker.  Once you get your food in (most everything is already there) it is pretty easy. 

Yeah once you are in it for a while, it's easy. I've been using it since 2-3 months pre-op. My first goal of all of this was "enter my food every day, every meal, every scrap.....even if it's a 6-pack". That helped me with a lot of mental issues prior to surgery, things like "oh screw it, I messed up today so I won't bother entering it in" or "that beer isn't good, i won't enter it in" or "I'm too lazy" etc etc. That has helped a lot, and yes MFP keeps me honest. It's also been super-valuable when I had questions for my nutritionist: I just sent her a few days of my log and she identified some places I could improve. Also there are charts showing how much of various nutrients, fat, protein etc you are getting every day, over a period of time. I'm a numbers girl, so I like it.