I’ve heard of Lose It and My Fitness Pal. Anyone have experience with them or other ones?
Edit: Sorry about the laggy response, my shifts have been longer lately.
I used to have MyFitnessPal. Once UnderAmor bought it, it’s been crap.
I use MyNetDiary now. Free tier calorie counter works perfectly.
I used to have My fitnessPal too years ago. I was so disappointed to see just now how they enshittified it.
My Fitness Pal used to be good up to when underarmor owned it, but some other rent-seekers bought it and put a lot of good features behind a paywall.
I’d use something off the f-droid FOSS app store, they usually use the OpenFoodFacts database so you can scan a barcode and have an easy calorie count.
I’ll have to look at that. I always enjoyed the ease of data input with the barcode scanner on My Fitness Pal. Hopefully they have something like that.
Fatsecret is a horribly-named but decent one that automatically syncs between their website and your phone and has basic calorie counter functions
just make a spreadsheet
I use MyNetDiary, and I like it. It has more free features than MyFitnessPal
I’ll have to take a look at it, thanks for the suggestion.
I use cronometer, works well enough
I think I heard of that a while ago, I’ll have to look at it again.
notebook and pen
I already got that for tracking my fasting sugar, lol.
MacroFactor
Lost 20 lb
Sounds promising. I’d like to start keeping a better track on what I eat to more efficiently lose weight. Somehow I lost 40 pounds in a year through informal calorie cutting.
It’s kind of expensive but worth it imo it just makes logging so easy. Also macronutrient balance really matters and it’s nice to have targets for each, not sure if other apps provide that. Anyway I just put in my goals and the fat started melting off it was great. As long as you log dutifully and weigh yourself regularly the algo really works.
I’m taking a break from that stuff for a minute though as it can get obsessive if you’re wired that way
I could go with a year’s subscription. I agree with the need to monitor macros. I’ve been eating a lot less meat lately, with more vegetarian-type protein as a substitute (mostly in the hope that it reduces cholesterol /saturated fat). I should see what that has been doing over time.
If you’ve been trying to shed weight and having a hard time lack of protein could be a big driver. I was shocked by how little I was getting before I started logging… Like 30g a day. I literally quadrupled my intake. I’m at 140 now.
It can be done vegan though just have to eat a ton of seitan / tofu / tvp. Vegetarian is easier with the addition of egg whites.
I gotta eat more egg whites. Maybe put them with breakfast and lunch. Maybe buy more of that almond cheese to put on it.
Idk, I seem to be keeping up a steady decline in body fat. I’m nearly out of overweight range. I just hope if I keep it all off, I can delay becoming insulin dependent for as long as possible. Being surrounded by morbidly obese diabetics all the time scares me like that.
Plus reducing the risk of cardiovascular disease from diet helps too, since that’s also a major long-term complication.
