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Post by Suziemo3 on Jun 20, 2019 2:42:07 GMT
How do I track simply filling on ITrackBites?
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Post by zazzles on Jun 20, 2019 2:55:09 GMT
How do I track simply filling on ITrackBites? I don’t see any setting i iTrakBites that allows you to track simply filling technique. The help on their support site doesn’t make any mention of simply filling technique. |
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Post by susan092907 on Jun 20, 2019 10:37:05 GMT
How do I track simply filling on ITrackBites? Some time ago there was some discussion about it. I tried it. There's no actual program for it, so you have to do a work-around. Go to Create Food and create an item equal to your daily points. I'm using Points Plus (Bites Plus now called Carb Conscious). My daily bites allowance is 26. So I created a "food" item that I named "Simply Filling daily points dummy", and gave it 26 points for one serving. Then enter that item each day on your tracker. Any other food that you enter will come out of weekly points. If a food is a simply filling food, then when you pull it up on the tracker, before you enter it, use the toggle button to make it a 0 point food. You have to know what foods are on the simply filling list. I just looked again at the app and found what I remembered about discussion of it. At the top of the community page, there's an icon for groups. Open that, and down the list of groups there's a Simply Filling Followers Group.
ETA - Save the dummy that you create as a favorite and then you can find it easily every day under your favorites and enter it each day. I never really liked Simply Filling but decided to give it another try maybe 6 months ago. I used it for only a few days. I still have the dummy item I created in my favorites list.
I think there's also an Itrackbites Facebook group for Simply Filling followers, but I never checked it out because I don't do facebook.
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Post by zazzles on Jun 20, 2019 13:27:21 GMT
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Post by keshet51 on Jun 21, 2019 22:01:07 GMT
Ooh am having a frustrating moment with iTrackBites! I was trying to find a listing for cooked chicken breast and could not find one that listed zero points (for Freestyle aka Better Balance). And there are a million listings with widely varying points values, some listing a "serving," others a slice, etc etc. Sometimes the search is so difficult! I also was frustrated at finding a generic vinaigrette for my salad dressing so went with olive oil instead, and the points values vary for 1 tbsp between 1 and 4 points. I have to keep backing into the points values since I often know what they should be and then I search for a listing I can modify to get there. Does it have to be this complicated???
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Post by susan092907 on Jun 22, 2019 12:05:12 GMT
keshet51, Start with the broadest term: Chicken, breast. Then scroll through the items listed under the "Pocket Guide". The Pocket Guide has the points listed correctly for whatever plan you're following. You'll find listings then for cooked, uncooked, with skin, with bone, etc. Then save it as a favorite if it's something that you use often. Same for the olive oil: Oil, olive. Check the Pocket Guide. I've created my own meals for meals that I use often, and I've done that for my salad with homemade vinaigrette. Figure out the points for the total meal or for the vinaigrette. Then go to Create Food. Then call it whatever you want and assign it the appropriate number of points. I have a "food" item that I call "Salad w/ 1 tsp olive oil & 1 tsp vinegar". It's 1 point on my plan. I also have an item that I created called "Olive oil & Vinegar". I have them saved as favorite foods. They now come up as soon as I start to search for salad or for olive oil in my recent entries. I also have created a food that I call "Lunch, cottage cheese, carrots, green beans". And an item I call "Breakfast, Cheerios, milk, coffee".
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Post by DebDoesWW on Jun 22, 2019 12:44:44 GMT
susan092907 that is how I have to do searches on WW, drives me bat $&@/ crazy! I always end up deleting how I have it typed in there and go back and do it over.
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Post by susan092907 on Jun 22, 2019 12:52:38 GMT
DebDoesWW, I've tracked on WW, on MFP and on Itb. I find that on all of them, once I use start using them routinely it gets easier. Firstly because I get practiced, secondly because I save a lot of foods and meals as favorites, and thirdly because over time, I eat the same foods often.
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Post by DebDoesWW on Jun 22, 2019 12:59:52 GMT
susan092907, I have used MFP for years now and I have never noticed on there that I have to watch the order I type the words in. WW is famous for that, it shouldn't be so difficult and it shouldn't be based on the order. It it how the search function was when the internet first came out! 🤣
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Post by zazzles on Jun 22, 2019 13:55:46 GMT
WW is famous for that, it shouldn't be so difficult and it shouldn't be based on the order. It it how the search function was when the internet first came out! 🤣 Google didn’t become the most popular search engine on the Internet by chance; it took hundreds or thosands of Ph.D.s working tirelessly to create and fine-tune their seach algorithms. Contrast that to WW’s middle schoolers and what do you think you’re going to get! In the early days of the new WW web site I submitted lots of feedback about their search feature; like virtually all feedback nothing happened. Now that may be because the middle schoolers knew how to create a feedback button couldn’t figure out how to send that feedback to anybody at WW. Just sayin’. |
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Post by susan092907 on Jun 22, 2019 15:14:30 GMT
DebDoesWW , it's been a long time since I tracked on MFP, so I went back to check it out. I put in cooked chicken breast and then put in chicken, cooked, and then chicken, breast. All those ways I got lots of options. I now remember that it's actually one of the things that I didn't like about MFP - so many options to chose from and so many brand names and often not the brand that I had, and how to figure out which one to chose. On WW and Itb, you can go right to the generic option with the correct number of points for your plan without having to make decisions about which you're trying to track, by using the pocket guide. The pocket guide is like the old printed pocket guide that WW gave out as part of it's basic program materials - the one that you didn't have to pay extra for. No brand names, just simple generic foods. zazzles , My technical skills are probably less than a middle-schooler's at this point, so maybe that's why I can relate to the more simple minded trackers.
ETA: itb has lots of options too, listed separately as USDA, online sources, brands, restaurants that are accessible by searching for the food any way in any order. But to answer keshet51 's question about how to find the generic item with 0 points under Freestyle, you have to search the way I explained. I suppose there's some reason for that. Or maybe not.
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Post by DebDoesWW on Jul 2, 2020 14:36:31 GMT
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Post by surfgirl on Jul 2, 2020 18:42:27 GMT
DebDoesWW, thank you so much for bumping this up for me! I don't know why it didn't come up yesterday when I was looking for relate threads. Two things stand out: 1. Is Renee no longer here to ask questions to? And given her last posts were during Italy's COVID lock down, is she okay?! and 2. I miss zazzles snarky humor so much...
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Post by surfgirl on Jul 3, 2020 19:23:57 GMT
reneinitaly, are you around for some iTrackBites assistance, assuming you are still an Ambassador for that app?
Thank you so much!
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