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Poll - Do you use fitday.com or something else?



Do you use Fitday.com or someone else?  

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  1. 1. Do you use Fitday.com or someone else?

    • Yes, I use Fitday.com
      19
    • No, I don't use Fitday.com, but I use a similar on-line service
      4
    • I don't use an on-line system, but I do use excel or another application
      3
    • I don't use any calorie tracker, but I am gonna find out about it!
      10
    • I don't track my calories or exercise
      6


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Hi, I have had great success using a website called www.fitday.com. in many ways, its a little basic, and not terribly intuitive. However, it has the ability to look up and track the calories that you consume and expend every day; track your weight change, and a modest list of other reports. Since its free, and on-line, I find it useful.

Here is my question for you, my fellow bandsters, for this poll:

Do you use Fitday.com?

What other sites do you use?

Please share them with us, along with the features, benefits, costs, if any, and of course, their web address.

Thanks!! Brad

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I track my calories on fitday - everyday for 3 months now. It helps alot, escpecially to hold myself accountable when I eat a hershey kiss or two or three - It all adds up. Right now I am eating about 1500 cal. per day. I would really like to get that down to 1200, but I need to make better food choices!

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I started with fitday.com but downloaded their desktop program, called FitdayPC. It's only $20 for fitday.com users, and it's WORTH EVERY PENNY. It does a lot the online version can't do, and makes it much more pleasant to track my intake (read: I do it more often).

The best feature of FitdayPC is that you can enter and save custom foods, either by recipe, nutrition label info, or ingredients. I have custom foods called things like "turkey sandwich lunch." Online you had to enter all the items individually, every time.

It has a lot more functionality in general, lots that I don't even use. I highly recommend it!!

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I use sparkpeople.com and highly recommend it. I tried fitday, but dodn't like that I could save my own foods, and it was a bit hard to navigate. Spark people is perfect for me - I have my own personalized food section or I can choose a ready planned menu, track my weight, measurements, exercise, and other life goals. Check it out, after all, it is free!!!!

www.sparkpeople.com

Hope you like it!

~cheri

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Thanks Cheri,

sparkpeople is indeed a less complex site! Very easy to navigate. Thanks again for the information, I really appreciate it!

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This is all very good info, I think I may reconsider my current choice which is the weight watchers point system. Although it is a bit quicker to track, i'm affraid it's not accurate enough.

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off and on. i don't use it everyday. seomtimes i even skip a week, but i am ALWAYS counting in my head EVERYTHING that goes in my mouth. it is very helpful to have a record of it though.

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I paid for fitday but I dont tend to log in. I did it in the beginning, then went without logging for months. I am trying to get back on track, have been writing down all my food and am ready to get it on fitday to see how I have been doing.

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