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Post by alias123 on Jan 13, 2017 22:15:02 GMT
When I track it's on MFP.
I like to know the saturated fat, sodium, fiber & calories daily totals.
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Post by fullmahina on Jan 14, 2017 16:48:15 GMT
When I track it's on MFP.
I like to know the saturated fat, sodium, fiber & calories daily totals. I just switched to MFP from Calorie Count because Calorie Count is shutting down in March. I wasn't in love with CC but it does give you everything for free, included extended nutritional information including micronutrients. Oh well. MFP is good, with a better data base and more user-friendly tools. Sad that I had all my recipes with NI in the old CC site but life will go on.
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Post by e11eben on Jan 14, 2017 20:46:14 GMT
I count calories, track macros (shooting for 40 carb/30 protein/30 fat in percentages), watch sugar and sodium and have a list of eating rules I follow. I'm down almost 8 pounds since thanksgiving with around 10 to go.
i use loseit. It's my favorite of the apps and I just got a lifetimes premium subscription for 99.99.
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Post by karen54171 on Jan 14, 2017 21:05:23 GMT
I do Point Plus on ITrackbites, love it. Also use Spark People to watch my cholesterol, and in nice weather I use Map my walk.
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Post by fullmahina on Jan 15, 2017 15:28:24 GMT
I do Point Plus on ITrackbites, love it. Also use Spark People to watch my cholesterol, and in nice weather I use Map my walk. Karen I was wondering about Map My Walk. Does it use a lot of data?
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Post by karen54171 on Jan 15, 2017 18:08:12 GMT
Fullmahina: Map my walk shows you the route you walked, also all the stats: how many miles, how many steps, how many calories (tho for some reason my app does not show the calories, which I don't care about). It also clocks how long each mile takes, and has a comparison of say, mile 1 took me 17.38 minutes, mile 2 took me 17.00 minutes. I love that app, it is great when I am taking my walks outside. I tried it on the track at the Y, and all it showed was my time. Hope that answered your question. (it is all based on what the GPS pulls in)
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Post by Kitty on Jan 15, 2017 18:20:09 GMT
We’re all doing some form of dieting and, presumably, counting. WW, to me, is now just another counting plan with smaller numbers than calorie counting.
Saying that the GHGs are no longer needed because healthy eating is built into the plan, WW has baffled me. Especially when their esteemed spokesperson/10% owner Oprah is on the TV repeatly crowing about eating bread and drinking wine, etc. If people pick up on that “eat anything” attitude from the ads, just how does that replace the GHGs?!
Personally, I count calories and am currently back-posting quick-added SPs to WW based on total NI for each meal.
Basically this is what I'm doing. I record carefully on MFP then later post the points at WW. I've found actually that it works out OK to simply quick add SPS to WW based upon total nutritional info for the day. I was doing it by meal for awhile but found that doing it by day worked out fine. Most of the time doing that results in the same total SPs as it would if I did it by meal (or even individual food). If it is off it is no more than 1 point. If I have a lot of zero point foods I do back that out and don't include in my WW point count. The biggest issue I have with SmartPoints is that there is no longer a close enough connection between calories and point count. When 120 calories can be anything from 1 SP to 6 SPs that is a problem for weight loss. It is too easy to end up eating either too many or too few calories.
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Post by susan092907 on Jan 15, 2017 20:02:51 GMT
I track on MFP but as a WW free Lifetime member I weigh in once a month at a WW center and stay for the meeting. I like to keep up accountability at WW and I'm also keeping up my free etools account for the time when SPs is either modified or replaced. Interesting zazzles and Kitty to track SPs using total NI on a meal by meal or daily basis. Doing this might help me figure out how many SPs I actually need for weight loss or for maintenance, since I was never able to figure it out on the SPs tracker. Thanks for sharing that.
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Post by zazzles on Jan 16, 2017 2:59:20 GMT
We’re all doing some form of dieting and, presumably, counting. WW, to me, is now just another counting plan with smaller numbers than calorie counting.
Saying that the GHGs are no longer needed because healthy eating is built into the plan, WW has baffled me. Especially when their esteemed spokesperson/10% owner Oprah is on the TV repeatly crowing about eating bread and drinking wine, etc. If people pick up on that “eat anything” attitude from the ads, just how does that replace the GHGs?!
Personally, I count calories and am currently back-posting quick-added SPs to WW based on total NI for each meal.
Basically this is what I'm doing. I record carefully on MFP then later post the points at WW. I've found actually that it works out OK to simply quick add SPS to WW based upon total nutritional info for the day. I was doing it by meal for awhile but found that doing it by day worked out fine. Most of the time doing that results in the same total SPs as it would if I did it by meal (or even individual food). If it is off it is no more than 1 point. If I have a lot of zero point foods I do back that out and don't include in my WW point count. The biggest issue I have with SmartPoints is that there is no longer a close enough connection between calories and point count. When 120 calories can be anything from 1 SP to 6 SPs that is a problem for weight loss. It is too easy to end up eating either too many or too few calories. I can calculate SPs in my head if I do it slowly (‘cuz I’m no math wiz); but if the numbers for the input are too high smoke comes out of my ears. It goes like this:
(calories + (sat.fat * 9) + (sugars * 4) - (protein *3.2)) divided by 33
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Post by lmenglish on Jan 16, 2017 3:09:34 GMT
I did poorly last year using MFP tracked everything and never used the activity points, switched to SP and did better. You have to do what works for you!
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Post by Deleted on Jan 16, 2017 3:21:18 GMT
I do better on SP also but I still watch mostly my carb and fiber on MFP.I do both b/c sometimes I find if I'm not getting enough SP I'm also not getting enough calories but I like to do it meal by meal rather than as a daily total.I eat much of the same kind of foods so I pretty much know the SP but not necessarily the amount of calories.I don't eat my exercise calories on MFP or my AP's on WW.
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Post by amy on Jan 16, 2017 16:09:37 GMT
<--- I'm trying this program right now
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Post by DebDoesWW on Jan 16, 2017 16:12:11 GMT
LOL amy!!! I need that too!
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Post by sullicat1 on Jan 17, 2017 2:41:39 GMT
As stated before I use LoseIt to count but tonight I saw a commercial for South Beach. Evidently they now have a meal/delivery plan ala JC or NUtrisystem. Maybe it's not new to others but I never saw it advertised before. I still like the idea of portioned meals but IMO you can do it a lot cheaper by buying your own frozen entrees. There are some healthier choices out there now. And no offense but if I see the WW commercial 1 more time I'm going to throw my tv thru the window.
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