Breakfast:
2 eggs cooked as crepe
blueberries
raspberries
Lunch 1: cafe burger + lettuce – bun = salad
6oz hamburger
lettuce
tomato
Lunch 2: salad from home
2 cups lettuce
2 cups arugula
cucumber
2 hard boiled eggs
asiago cheese
olive oil
Dinner: Spam Loco Moco cauli-rice
3 cups cauliflower
3oz spam lite
fried egg
cup of gravy
beer
Fitday Entry
Dailyburn entry (may move over to this)
Fruits and Veggies: 10 YEAH!
Calories: 1825 (fitday) 1809 (dailyburn) – good, maybe a bit high
Protein: 103/125 – good!
Carbs: 60/59 – good
Further Notes:
I’ll see if I can keep it up double-entering into fitday and dailyburn. I mostly want to make sure I get similar numbers. The only difference today was the hamburger meat I had a lunch. dailyburn claimed I had a bunch more protein out of that. Hmm.
Alan,
I use MyFitnessPal. It would be great to have you give that a try. It is my second site to try and track this stuff. The first was klunky, then going to MFP it was night and day and I found tracking to be a much more simple part of my day than it had been.
Other then accuracy what are your ideals for this type of tracking site?
I could certainly try MFP — I’m unhappy with how unstable fitday is (it’s down maybe once every other day for an hour or two it seems) and dailyburn is very “buy my add-on-services instead of just using the free one!” and I don’t like how it handles serving sizes — i.e. they assume a fixed serving size and you put in the amount you eat relative to that. I am often tweaking serving sizes and I htink I’m pretty good at estimating ounces/cups/etc. so “0.5” serving is harder, especially if their serving size isn’t expressed in a measure I can tell like grams. Damn you metric system!
The things I need are really just the numbers I want to track:
carbs, protein. I mostly ignore calories, though I do like to know where it is ballparked, and same with fat. This is the major reason I love this diet. I track vegetables separately by just counting them.
Weight tracking is a nice to have, but I also do that on my own. The most useful thing is just being able to enter food on the go via iphone app or at least iphone-compatible web page and a mix of “official” (i.e. USDA or other verified nutritional info) and user-generated stuff (mostly for branded foods, but also for regular meals I make, so I don’t need to enter everything every time I eat that)
I’ve found that Dailyburn and Fitday at least have mostly consistent data, though as I mentioned, hamburger vs. ground beef ended up being very different, so I’m still testing.
Let me know if you beta MFP, I’ll send you a ‘friend’ and you can see my arrangement.
I’m “nicehat” there (and on dailyburn and fitday) — I’m trying dailyburn alone for a week… last week doing 3 systems at once was honestly kinda stupid, but it highlighted the differences quickly. I’ll be solely MFP next week and make a decision on what to stick with then.