My fitness Pal Question!

twiddleypop

Long time lurker on this forum. On the advice of you wonderful boardsies, I lost about a stone and a half through tracking foods with myfitnesspal and lots of exercise about 2 years ago and things were going great until my weight crept back up. (Not by that much -5 pounds but a lot for me really because I'm short.) So I know it works.

My question is how on the ball are you with your goals personally? I find it hard to hit exactly the targets, I mean some days it would be over a certain amount and some days it would be under. Obviously I know the more accurate you are the better.

For example:

Today, I was 52 over with calories, 5 under carb requirement, 11 under fat requirement, 6 over protein requirement and 19 over sugar.

So too much sugar today for me (due to fruit but sugar is sugar) and not enough fat! The sugar one is the one mostly over. I don't use sugar in porridge or tea. I don't drink fizzy drinks or eat sweets and its still over almost every day. I can't imagine how much sugar some people must take in a day and they wouldn't realise- the stuff is in almost everything. Even so called "healthy" foods like granola bars, fruit and most yoghurts are laced with sugar! How does everyone feel about fruit?

I guess I should also let you know my goals. I want to lose about 7-10 pounds. I'm willing to do it slowly because its the last few stubborn ones. I wouldn't be obsessed with my weight itself, I just want to tone up and be generally fit and healthy! Body fat is 23%

Mellor

If you had hit you fat, carb, protein goals exactly, you would have been even further over your calorie goal.

Stone Deaf 4evr

Sugar and salt are nearly impossible to avoid, it's frightening how present they are in foods you wouldn't expect.

RidleyRider

I think my fitness pal is great but I like to think of overall calories consumed throughout the week. Course, track your macros but don't stress too much over it. You have tomorrow, the day after and the day after that to make things up.

cletus van damme

RidleyRider wrote: »

I think my fitness pal is great but I like to think of overall calories consumed throughout the week. Course, track your macros but don't stress too much over it. You have tomorrow, the day after and the day after that to make things up.

it is good and I use it myself
but a warning to be careful when selecting something - see if it looks reasonable to you.

was looking some some beef and bacon stuff recently and there was a big variance in some of them