Do you currently have any apps that track your food/calorie intake?
- Yes
- No
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If you do, how many calories do you usually eat?
- Less than needed
- The amount you’re supposed to
- More than you’re supposed to
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I’ve been on sparkpeople.com for a number of years. I’d previously successfully lost 72 pounds but I gained it all back on Geodon and Abilify. I recommend Sparkpeople though, it’s a good site.
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I use my phone calculator as a tracker.
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I also use Spark People and love it
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I’ve been using MyFitnessPal.com for the last three years and quite successfully I might add.
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I built my own calorie counters and a couple other health trackers for Android, but tracking calories is useless if you aren’t eating better quality foods and avoiding bad stuff. I like myfitnesspal but found I would slowly gain weight with it I think because I would often eat more in order to satisfy a particular nutrient goal (like potassium). I like my own app because it is pretty fast and I use it to track “good” foods like fruits and veggies vs “bad” foods like pizza, candy, ice cream. I found that when I increased intake of non starchy hi fiber veggies that my weight dropped more dramatically than just monitoring calorie alone.
MyFitnessPal is great for tracking sodium though so that’s probably the best thing to track for starters since so many of us have high blood pressure and so many foods are loaded with salt.
I used myfitnesspal for a couple years and exported the data to a csv file. It’s interesting to see the correlation between my sodium intake and calories eaten (I guess this shows for every 100mg more of sodium I ate I would eat 35 more calories on average)
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That’s cool that you made it yourself. How much weight have you lost, if you don’t mind me asking?
Do you have android? If you do there’s a super underrated app called “simple calorie counter” that lets you track and graph calories (and exercise) without all the other feature that other apps have. Its extremely simple.
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Yup it’s mentioned in the good book!
No I have an iPhone.
Maybe I can still find it.
Thanks for the suggestion @anon92887483.
No Prob! They don’t have it for iPhone but yea there still some good ones. My fitness pal is pretty good I’m guessing (though I’ve never tried the app) cause they have a good food nutrition facts database on their actual site. It’s pretty well rated too
I installed an app called simple calorie counter on my iPhone.
Thanks!
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I only lost about 20 lbs using it… Went from 220 to 200… I think my muscle tone improved though significantly… I gotta take a new selfie but this is how I looked when I started developing my app and after using it
This was me last Christmas… still have a bit of a gut:
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I’ve used this one and like it a lot because it launches super fast… you can probably even add like + or - to each entry if you want to toughly tally up good and bad foods like mine.
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It looks like your face slimmed down a good bit. Good luck with your weight loss!
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