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Originally Posted by Whatsername  Fitday...just curious how this really works out for people. I tried it but got very frustrated with it. I couldn't find the foods I wanted listed and would be forever trying to enter my own info. I didn't really have the patience for it. Maybe I was doing something wrong?  |
Fitday - YES, it is a pain at first. Here is some info I have put together to make it a bit easier:
If you haven't gotten Fitday to count fiber for you, this is how you do it: On the left side of the page, is a place that you can click on to set a nutrition goal. Go there, and set a fiber goal... that is done by setting a minimum and maximum daily fiber amount. It doesn't matter which numbers you plug in... I have my minimum set as 1 and my maximum as 50... the numbers there aren't important. I just put them in, to get Fitday to count for me. After doing this, the fiber grams will show with the other totals for carbs, protein, fat. Just subtract the fiber grams from the carb grams, and you have your net carbs.
Fitday sometimes frustrates me... so much so, that I have most of my foods entered as custom foods. Even a lot of veggies! It's a pain to have to sort through so many possibilities to find something that should be simple. So if I can't find something easy, I find info that I do like somewhere else and enter is as a custom food. I've gotten a lot of my info from a great Spreadsheet that is in the FAQ Forum, and some from
www.calorieking.com, among others. I also sat down with my laptop in the kitchen and entered info from every jar, can, box, label, of anything that I ever use. Yep, a big pain in the butt to do that, but after it's done, it really makes Fitday easier to use.
Of course, you are not required to use Fitday... you can easily keep count of your net carbs on paper. I'll provide the links to the places on the internet that you can use. Here we go:
The first link (Nutritional Spreadsheet) is a fantastic resourse that is found in the FAQ forum on this board. It lists each food, how much of that food equals 1 cup (in weight), the nutrition facts, and in which rung the food is allowed. I've printed this list and use it all of the time.
Calorie King is a great site for nutrition facts.
Nutrition Data has nutrition facts.
Again - Fitday is a pain at first. But once you make the sacrifice of setting things up the way you want them, it becomes a breeze.
Again - Yes, there are many who have succeeded without using Fitday. I did use it, and found it to be a very helpful tool.