fitday.com and other calorie counters--any suggestions?

bigbaby · May 15, 2007

I have not been banded yet (waiting on insurance approval). However, I am trying to "change my habits now" by watching my calorie intake. :hungry: I saw on another post about counting daily calories using fitday.com. I found it a bit tideous because I could find nutritional values for food that I ate in restaurants.

I eat out quite a bit--I may have to stop once banded---is there an online site that lends itself to counting calories of restaurants? Anxious to begin...

faithmd · May 15, 2007

thedailyplate.com has more restaurant calorie values than fitday.com does. I use fitday becuase that's what I started using when I began my last lap of the journey to the Band and it doesn't make me break up my day into Breakfast, lunch and dinner. I work nights so I prefer just a running total per day. Some days I do it sun up to sun down, others I do it sun down to sun up and I can do that easily with fitday. I've been using fitday since late January and I've lost 42lbs, I am NOT banded yet. I haven't really been watching what I eat other than cutting out anything made with enriched flours (I've backslid this week a bit, but not too bad), sugars, simple starches. I am logging EVERY BITE. It is a bit tedious with fitday to put in so many custom foods, but most every restaurant has their nutrition information on their websites, I just go there and copy it over to fitday. Usually the websites offer the ability to customize the foods and I prefer to move the info over because I frequently customize my foods.

sparkpeople.com is one a lot of folks use, I didn't like the format and though they have more foods than fitday, thedailyplate beats out sparkpeople for lists of foods, hands down.

For looking up restaurant foods calorieking.com has I think the most of anyplace I've seen.

Good Luck!

katschai · May 15, 2007

I use sparkpeople.com I like it much better than fitday. Have not tried dailyplate yet I might do that. I find I am logging in several times a day and enter all my exercise. I used to hate the food diary thing but now that I am banded I really feel the need to track everything. good luck

bigbaby · May 16, 2007

thanks...I will try both of these sites and let you know which I like best!!!!

''Preciate cha!!!!

ericsmom · May 16, 2007

I used fitday.com religiously when I first started my journey. I loved it. I liked that it was just a running total of the day and you could enter in custom foods. I stopped using it, and I think that is a big reason I have slowed in my losing...I am vowing to start using fitday.com again. I think it will help me stay on track. At least there are choices out there for everyone's preferences and needs.