Food Tracking

[jennlee 11]

For those of you you who track your food - what do you use? Pen and Paper, my fitness pal or something else. I really have been slacking on my Protein and need to start paying better attention. If you are using myfitness pal what do you set you calorie, protein and carb goals at? How far out are you? I know my protein goals are 60-80 grams. I can't remember what was said about calories and carbs. All my materials are home and I am at work feeling motivated. I know everyone has a different program set by their doctors - I am just curious what every one else is doing. My surgery was 9/22/14 so I am 5 months post-op,

[Queen P 112]

I love my fitness pal!!

[jennlee 11]

how far post-op are you? What do you have your calorie and carb goals set at?

[bruni 38]

i use sparkpeople because i've used it for years and it has a lot of my personal recipes in it already, etc.

i set my Protein to 60 and calories to 1000 because it wont let me set it to lower

the rest, i just let the defaults stay

[Thinkingthinner1109 485]

My fitness pal....if I cannot record it, I don't eat it!

[Thinkingthinner1109 485]

I set my calories to 900 and my Protein to 60. And I watch my carbs no more than 40 but I don't set it. I just watch the total. I am 6 months post op and met my goal yesterday.

[heftyhoosier 30]

My fitness pal - 75 -90 g of Protein. I'm only 3 weeks out so calorie comparison is irrelevant.

[BLERDgirl 6,417]

I've using MFP for several years before WLS. I eat anywhere from 700 - 850 calories a day and try to keep my carbs around 50. I'm vegetarian so my carbs tend to be higher than most people. I shoot for 70gm Protein or more a day. I don't worry about the fat/sodium/sugar. I just aim to keep them low. I drink 64 ounces of fluids a day, at least 40 of which are plain Water.< /p>

[livvsmum 2,368]

I use myfitnesspal religiously. lol. It keeps me on track. I worry more about Protein, carbs, and Water than calories. I typically find that if I get all of my Protein in (60-80g) and keep my carbs below 40 that the calories fall right in line.

[bikrchk 1,313]

MFP. Religiously during my loss and for the fort 6 months of maintenance. Today I go back to tracking if I begin to "creep" outside my goal zone.

[Summer Rain 245]

I was using MyNetDiary long before surgery so I have continued using it. I can manually set my daily calories, carbs, and Protein. It has a free version or an upgraded version.

[downsizingdiva 459]

Sparkpeople

[jennlee 11]

Thank you for sharing. I think I am going to go back to using my fitness pal.