Why do I need to use FitDay?

[Perry]

It is important to journal your foods and keep track of your carbs. There are several free online sites. Fitday is a free site that will track your foods, calculate your nutritional values, track your weight and exercise and give you a free place to write a private journal. It is found at: http://fitday.com

You need to be specific when you list your foods and look at the actual listing for that 'roast'. It may be plain or they may have it listed with added ingredients. If in doubt use the raw values for the food as nothing is added to them.

Now you are thinking why do I need to journal my foods? This will let you look back if you have a problem and see what food or foods you added and when you added them so that you can see if there is a correlation between when you stopped losing and a new food was added. It also keeps you honest. I can't tell you how many people have posted they were doing Induction and never exceeding 20 carbs until they went to fitday and saw the totals or posted "I never new decaf, diet soda, tea, or, whatever had carbs". Many folks somehow think if they don't log it, it doesn't have carbs and then they get into trouble.

If you use fitday for Atkins then you must go to the Goals page and tell fitday to track fiber. You do this by clicking the 'Create Nutritional Goal' box where a list will drop down. Click on 'Dietary Fiber' in the list and then click "Go". After you do that fiber will show up right below the carb count on the daily foods page totals. You subtract the fiber total from the carb total and that is your net carb count. The fitday program will not subtract the fiber automatically but you can do this in your head when you look at your totals for the day.

Once you get your fitday set up you can ask for help and tell us what it says or add a public link to it. This lets folks actually see for themselves that you are indeed a "stalled by the book chapter 11 inductee" and need a miracle fix. LOL

Fitday is a very beneficial tool when doing Atkins WOE. We highly recommend it to our community of losers.

You can also mirror your daily entries in FitDay by starting and keeping a journal in the Journal Stats Forum.