Fitday!

[Moochiecat]

Many of us at ADBB use www.fitday.com to keep track of what we are eating. It's free to sign up, and it has tons of other features. You can plot your weight loss on a graph, keep track of your exercise, keep a journal, set yourself different goals, and much more!

The first thing people generally use at Fitday is the Foods tab. Here you can enter what you eat by either looking it up, or adding in your own custom foods. What I find works fastest is to enter all my foods first, then go down the list after and adjust all of the portion sizes.

Fitday gives you both a percentage chart and a graph showing your fat/protein/carb amounts.
Your goal is ideally 65%fat/30%protein/5%carbs, but it's ok if the numbers fluctuate a little bit from day to day. If you're following the plan as laid out in DANDR, they should naturally fall within those parameters but it's always good to see it all laid out in front of you.
(NOTE: re: net carbs - In order to calculate your net carbs, just look at the chart and subtract your fiber from the total carb count. If fiber isn't listed on the chart, look to the left and go into Goals. Set yourself a fiber goal (I put 5 min, 5 max, any number will do) and you'll see fiber appear on the chart. )

Click the 'Help' tab on the top right of the screen at Fitday to go through the various features. On the main page you will see how to allow others to see your Fitday, which can be handy when you need someone to look at it and offer advice on how you are doing.
When you post a Fitday link to your foods, do remember that it's also important to write out your menu as well, so we can see how your food was prepared and served (i.e. chicken sauteed in olive oil..cauliflower mashed with cream and butter) and we have an idea what your meals are like. Refer to this sticky when posting your menu:
http://www.atkinsdietbulletinboard.c...ead.php?t=5150 (HOW TO POST YOUR MENU)

Check it out!

[pladd04]

hehe... thank you Sticky, I'll go check it out right now.

[omnimomma]

Thank you SO MUCH for the information on FitDay! It's great. I've been wanting to find a way to keep track and check carbs, calories, etc. and I was so excited to find this. One question, how can I post my menus for evaluation to the ADBB? I've never done anything like this before.

[Barbde]

Just click on "new thread" under the Review My Menu topic. Give your post a title and then ask away!! You'll get help!

http://www.atkinsdietbulletinboard.c...splay.php?f=50

[cincywbbw]

Ohh thanks for this site!! it has made the carb counting totals sooooo easy for me.

[adenae78]

My problem with fitday is some of the foods don't match up with the back of my labels, also some food isint available in my portion, and I don't have the time to sit and browse through the list. Thanks for listening

[Tralee63]

You can add your own foods to the menu and get the correct portions in it too match what is on your label.

[jeannine1976]

I just joined FitDay. It works really well for getting fat/carb/protein percentages, but I noticed that it doesn't calculate net carbs on custom foods (unless there's a trick I don't know). Just something to keep an eye out for if you're using it to keep track of carbs.

[elisabeth]

Hi.

I have been using Fitday for some time and it is great....so very useful......best available for sure.

I have a question for you.....

I have just started taking 10 - 20 gms of fibre per day in the form of Whole Psyllium Husks in order to reduce my total carb intake....as carbs less fibre equals the net carb result which is what I need to know.

However, there are no carbs in this product I am taking...... no proteins, fat or carbs ....it is purely fibre.

How can I add this into the equation on your programme? It is very important for me to be able to add this as it naturally reduces the overall results considerably.

I can't simply add 10gms fibre as I get the message that I have to enter more carbs otherwise I can't get it to work.

So..........when I do try to test it by entering 10 gms carbs in order to achieve 10 gms fibre in the table, it confuses the daily percentages etc. as I am not taking the 10 gms of carbs.

I would very much appreciate your help.

Thankyou

[Elizellen]

As you have found, you will need to add the total carb number of 10 as well as the fiber number of 10 to get fitday to accept it (it treats fiber as being a carb). So your idea of adding extra fibre does not 'reduce your total carb intake' - instead it just adds to both your total carb and your fiber carb intake, while leaving your net carb intake the same.

As fitday is not set up as a specific lowcarb tracking programme, it is not capable of deducting the fiber count from the carb count to get your ratios exactly right, but as most of us are not adding large amounts of pure fibre it doesnt mess with the ratios to much of an extent.

If you want to add the extra fibre in quantities which would impact the ratios greatly you will need to calculate the changes yourself separately, by making notes of the totals and doing the maths.