Food Diary/Journals

[Jupiterblue 1]

Though I have been following everyone's posts for the last 6 months, I did not want to subscribe until I finally got my surgery date! I got my surgery date! September 24th is the big day! The one thing I had not thought about purchasing until today was a new bariatric food journal that would specifically have a place to track my Proteins, and waters. I have been keeping a basic food diary but I feel a new journal for post-surgery would be a great way to kick this off. I have been looking at different ones on Amazon but they don't give you a picture of what's inside the covers. Does anyone have a favorite food diary or food journal that's easy to use and they've found helpful?

Sent from my moto g power using BariatricPal mobile app

[Maisey 260]

I do it electronically on Lose It. I think everyone has their favorite app or method.

[Lynnlovesthebeach 626]

I use the free version of My Fitness Pal. It tells you all your macros. I'm almost 3 yrs post op and still track my food to make sure I get my Protein in. The other stuff I don't really care about. The free version even has a bar code scanner in case you need to use that and it has a pretty big database of food products. I find it just as easy to use as the Weight Watchers tracking tool that I've used for many years.

[Wahinebythesea 49]

Carb Manager (free version)

Macros, bar code scanner, many pre-programmed foods and of course you can program in your own foods.

[Stalled 32]

I use my Fitbit app. It allows me to track food and Water. Then the food composition is broken down into Proteins, carbs, sugars, etc.

[Crick 146]

I use bariatastic. It’s a lot easier to keep track of it on an app, for me.

[ShoppGirl 5,025]

If your wanting to track your moods and things along with your calories and intake you could just use the notepad app in your phone. I use it to track my weight. I record it daily but on surgery date each month I delete all but that day so I can see the downward trend month to month.

[Jupiterblue 1]

These are all great ideas! Thank you. I will explore each one of them.

[Tomo 1,195]

Been logging every bite for over 10 years on fitday.com. I like it because of the graphs. I've tried others that have a better database but I always come back to fitday. The problem with fitday is I have to add a lot of customized foods since their database, imho, is below par.

[lizonaplane 1,613]

I also like my fitness pal. I've been using it since 2012, so I want to keep all my previous weights in there. I just saw my lowest weight was 190 and my highest was 283 (I know I had a higher weight earlier). I haven't entered my liquids before, because I never had trouble drinking, but I will probably start after surgery. I've used a lot of the macro info. The only thing I don't like is all the ads, but I'm not willing to pay for the premium version.