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By: losing weight with diabetes and pcos

losing weight with diabetes and pcos — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 00:08:14 +0000

losing weight with diabetes and pcos

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By: I’m back « The Migraineur

I’m back « The Migraineur — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 23:05:03 +0000

[...] if you’ve peeped into my food journal, I’m just going to admit two things: first, I did not keep track of everything I ate while [...]

By: psipsina

psipsina — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 22:33:00 +0000

Hi, weasel!,

I did use the custom food feature fairly extensively when I first discovered fitday years ago. But it’s still not perfect – if the food I eat is made up of things that aren’t in the USDA database, I still need to find some other source of nutrition info for it. Also, if I am eating a packaged product, such as sausages or olives or mayonnaise or frozen food – the food labels only give macronutrients and a small number of micronutrients. I like to keep track of all micronutrients (and especially, with my history of migraine, magnesium).

Plus, frankly, I’m not sure how long I’m going to keep up the Fitday journal. It’s nice to let people see how I eat (2,000 calories a day and still losing weight), but I think that any eating program that requires you to count everything you put in your mouth is ultimately doomed. (Doomed for me, anyhow. I know other people swear by it.) I was just out of town unexpectedly for a few days, and while I did my best to eat carefully, I was too stressed to write down everything I ate.

By: weasel!

weasel! — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 00:14:52 +0000

I appreciate your summary of the shortcomings of the Fitday/USDA food and nutrition database! I had the same issue with bacon fat! (Don’t you love how Big Food has convinced us to throw a useful product away, as if it were garbage, and buy a separate product, like vegetable oil, instead?)

However, I have a question.

When I was using Fitday, I entered a ton of custom foods. Either I looked on the label of my sausages or whatever, or I did a little math using what I knew about the recipe components of whatever I was eating. Thus I made an entry for my homemade salad dressing, which probably has the same macronutrient breakdown of your fave Greek dressing, BTW.

How come you don’t just use the custom food item feature?

Just curious. Thanks!