I want to start trackin my calories. Like for breakfast, I make myself a burrito with eggs, cheese, beans, and onions? How would i calculate that?

Hi, I use fitday.com to figure out my calories, some people use sparkpeople.com and I know there is one called calorie king.

Great job on the weightloss by the way :thumbup:

Someone recently pointed me to myfitnesspal.com It is very similar to fitday.com but it seems to me, to be easier.

Congrats on getting this far without tracking your calories. I am impressed!

-Fran

Someone recently pointed me to myfitnesspal.com It is very similar to fitday.com but it seems to me, to be easier.

Congrats on getting this far without tracking your calories. I am impressed!

-Fran

Hi Fran,

you know I decided to check that site you list above and I think I might switch! It will be hard as I have been using that site for a very long time, but change is good! Thank you for posting this :thumbup:

Barbie

I also use fitday.com. If this is something you are going to eat often, then I suggest looking up each of the things you make it out of and calculate how much it has in all. Create this under custom foods. I have done that for my Starbucks mocha, the quiche I cook, and any other foods that I eat on a regular basis.

For example, for my quiche I added up all the ingredients for the whole pan: 8 eggs, 1/4c onions, 4 oz cheese, 8 oz of ham, 1/2 c flour and 1 c milk. It adds up to a lot of calories, but then I divide it by 8 because I cut it into 8 pieces and each piece has 240 calories.

I use dailyplate.com.... Very similar to what the other sites mentioned are. You can customize dishes, enter servings, etc. Also you can put in a calorie goal and it tracks your % of carbs/protein/fat etc..... It is part of the livestrong.com site (lance armstrong) and has a forum and other stuff too....

I use it b/c it was the first one I went on... beside calorie king.

VERY ENLIGHTENING... I never knew that things I thought were ok or good really just aren't when you figure the little amount of food we eat at one time. Just my opinion--but we need to make sure what we eat worth every bite. For myself-it has been a wake up on really eating more naturally and better.

Good luck!

There are free programs, but i looked and like calorieking.com

They track Protein, Fiber, carbs, etc. in each food. You can also get a mineral and Vitamin report on the foods you're eating. I really like it a lot. Plus you can track all your exercise and everything in it.