fitday.com

Mo-Mo

I've started to keep a fitday.com food diary.

I am 126 pounds and have a BMI of 21 so I don't need to lose weight. I could benefit from toning up but that's going to take me getting off my ass and doing something about that.

Anyway, for my height and weight I should be eating 2100 cals i reckon to maintain weight which I'm ok with but if I could cut some out then so be it.

Anyway, according to fitday.com by the time I've had lunch today I'll have eaten 1700 cals.
This includes 1 banana, 1 apple for breakfast (not great I know but I slept in) at 8:30,
a wholemeal pita with 2 spoonfuls of 100% peanut butter at 11:30,
1 wholemeal pita with 1 cup of lentil curry which I will eat at 2.

The problem seems to be the lentil curry. I wouldn't thought it was so fattening, but it reckons 623 cals. Well at least 1 cup cooked lentils is, they don't have a curry as such but since it's just curry powder added I can't see how it's much different.

Is it all that good an indication of your calorie intake. Do I really only have another 400 cals I can eat today to stay within my limits? I would have thought that I'd eaten well today (although I did miss breakfast bad me).

Some people here have advised using fitday to get an idea of how you're eating but I'm finding it a bit scary.

Edit: I didn't mean to put that thumb down thing and now I cant get rid of it. I don't understand them.

Sauce

I think the calculations for your lentil curry is wrong. I dont know what your lentil curry is but im sure it doesnt contain just a full cup of lentils and some curry powder, not cooked, or nothing else added, not even water. 1 cup of raw lentils is 623 calories but im guessing there isnt a full cup of raw lentls in your lentil curry

Mo-Mo

623 cals is for 1 cup of cooked lentils. The point I'm trying to make is how to use it to calculate what the calories are for food you've made yourself. The curry I make includes onions, peas and tomatoes but I'm not expecting to find everymeal I eat exactly on Fitday but rough estimates will do.

If that is the amount of calories in 1 cup of cooked lentils then what I eat probably has even more and 623 seems high. But overall I've nearly eaten my upper limit of calories and it's only lunchtime. That has shocked me.

I suppose the query that I may not have expressed well is, is using fitday to track your daily calorie intake a good system?

j@utis

I don't like fitday.com either. Just because I prefer to count foods in grams, not some serving sizes like cups, spoons, cans and etc.
I've written a simple program myself for counting my daily calorie intake. I made it simple: just put in amount of some food consumed and you'll get total of calories.
For example my today's cal intake is: 1791kcal, 151g proteins, 253g carbs and 27g of fats, also 54g of fibre??!!? (oh yeah, right that Cabbage)...

Chucky the tree

just customize all the foods you eat then you can enter them in grams.

daveirl

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