fit day

[laura1986]

i have been lookin at someones fitday, and seen some foods on there that i can not find, is there anyway i can save those foods to my account?

[imagood1]

hi Laura -- to make a new food in FitDay look on the left hand side of the page you will see Create A Custom Food click on it and it will take you to a new page where you can put a new food in. If you can't find something this is what I do. You can also go into a food that is already there and click on Customize This Food under the description and you can make changes there.


Hope this helps

[mitzimarie]

Originally Posted by laura1986

i have been lookin at someones fitday, and seen some foods on there that i can not find, is there anyway i can save those foods to my account?

You probably couldn't find them because they had them entered as custom foods.

Because Fitday takes some time and patience to get used to, I have put together some info to help make it a little easier. I will copy and paste it here for you:

Fitday Stuff:

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 eggs and 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 easily, 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 we have 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.

Another thing that makes Fitday easier - when there is a recipe for something that you use a lot, you can enter the whole recipe as a custom food. This what I do to enter a completed recipe into Fitday: go to a day that has no other food entered (you can go into the next day's log). Enter all of the ingredients, and write down the total number of calories, fat, carbs, fiber, and protein on paper. You can then delete those foods, so you can go back to having a clean slate for that day. Next, go into custom foods and create a new food using the information you wrote down. It really does save a lot of time for me to be able to just click on "MUP" (which is my pumpkin concoction) now, instead of having to enter the pumpkin, cream cheese, ground cinnamon, ground allspice, and almonds each time that I had it for breakfast.

Of course, you are not required to use Fitday... you can easily keep count of your net carbs on paper. I'll provide some 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.

NUTRITIONAL SPREADSHEET

Calorie King is a great site for nutrition facts.

CALORIE KING

Nutrition Data has nutrition facts.

NUTRITION DATA

[laura1986]

ok thanks for that. but i cant save someone elses food from their page??

also i have to create my own foods, can i save them as favourites?? and then use them when i create a menu?

[JulieB]

Originally Posted by mitzimarie

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.

Mitzi - do you have the PC version or and advanced version of Fitday? I have set nutrition goals (sodium, fibre) on the free online version and do not get any extra information in the food log grid.

[mitzimarie]

Originally Posted by JulieB

Mitzi - do you have the PC version or and advanced version of Fitday? I have set nutrition goals (sodium, fibre) on the free online version and do not get any extra information in the food log grid.

I just have the regular, free, online version of Fitday. I don't know why it doesn't list the fiber for you if you have set a fiber goal. Maybe you could go back into the Nutrition goals and make sure they "took".

In the same place where calories, fat, carbs, and protein are, I also have a total for fiber. Check your goals again, and let us know.

[mitzimarie]

Originally Posted by laura1986

ok thanks for that. but i cant save someone elses food from their page??

I don't think there's a way to copy other people's custom foods, other than writing down the information and entering it as a custom food, yourself. Not sure why you would want to do that, though.

also i have to create my own foods, can i save them as favourites?? and then use them when i create a menu?

Each time that you enter a custom food, it is saved in "Custom Foods". And there is a small pull-down menu that keeps track of the foods that you eat most often, so you can click on some of your foods there, without having to go into Custom Foods. And when you enter whole recipes as a custom food, that cuts down on the number of foods you have to click on.

[JulieB]

Mitzi, do you mean the total fibre for the day, down at the bottom by the pie chart? I have that...I thought you were saying it could also be listed per food, in the main grid where it shows cals, fat, protein, carbs for each food item.

[mitzimarie]

Originally Posted by JulieB

Mitzi, do you mean the total fibre for the day, down at the bottom by the pie chart? I have that...I thought you were saying it could also be listed per food, in the main grid where it shows cals, fat, protein, carbs for each food item.

No, I meant the totals for the day and not each food item. Sorry for the confusion!

[JulieB]

No prob...I was wondering why I wasn't 'getting it'