Fitday Question

[EveWasFramed]

I just signed up for Fitday. Last night I made Linda's Cheeseburger Quiche, and I had two pieces today (I cut the pie quiche into 8 equal slices) but I don't know how to add that into Fitday. Is there a recipe calculator where I can put in the ingredients, amounts, and servings so that my portions will be broken down?

Alert! Whining ahead:

Something I always hated about dieting was writing down everything I ate. I know I need to do it, but it is SO tedious and I hate searching foods. For example, on Fitday I typed in "egg" and got about 200 responses, but none were just a regular old egg! I had to put "whole egg" to get the info I needed. It just annoys me. Does anyone else feel this way? You all seem to love using Fitday so much and the idea of journaling what I eat makes me want to cry.

/end whining!

[atkinsgal08]

Since Linda has already given you the nutritional information, I would just enter it as a custom food ... then your "serving" would be equal to the 1 slice.

Egg, whole, raw.

The good thing about Fitday is that once you have stuff entered, you can then select from the recently eaten foods ... or your custom foods.

So once you've looked something up and logged it, you don't have to research it.

It's best to use the "raw" version of foods with Fitday ... and the more you use it, the more you'll understand how it thinks.

And ... just ask. Odds are somebody has already looked it up and will be more than happy to help you.

And ... you won't have to do this forever. Remember ... it's a tool. You could just as easily keep a notebook ... but then you do have re-look things up!

[chinadoll]

We didnt all love fitday when we started. As you build up a history it begins to guess so if you eat foods repeatedly it works kind of like intelli-texting on a mobile phone. So it gets easier and easier. If your casserole is something you make a lot, it is worth typing in the ingredients to make it a "custom food" for fitday. I do that with my breakfast too. My usual morning is 2 eggs and 2 strips of bacon so I made it a custom food "eggs&bacon breakfast" that way I only have one entry. Hang in there with it.

[Suzanne_H]

Oh wow Jill that's a great idea! I'm gonna do that for my eggs/cheese/sausage patty breakfast. I was just going to add real quick that the downloaded PC version allows recipes to be entered and calculated. You can also calculate recipes using MasterCook if you have the software. I have MasterCook version 9 which retails for $18.49 on Amazon (purchased mine for about $10 at a computer store on sale).

[atkinsgal08]

You can also use Nutrition facts, calories in food, labels, nutritional information and analysis – NutritionData.com ... it's free.

You can also use a blank day on the online Fitday to enter a recipe.