FitDay Made Easier

by Sammy
(San Diego, CA)

I've been using FitDay for many years and although I do agree it is lacking in some areas, there are tons of useful data it provides.

In response to "Fitday – My Personal Review of This Online Weight Loss Tool" review on this site, I'd like to offer suggestions that would make it easier to continue using FitDay.

If you want to input a custom food from a recipe you made, I'd like to suggest you use SparkRecipes' Recipe Calculator (http://recipes.sparkpeople.com/recipe-calculator.asp). There are three simple steps. 1) Add each ingredient first by searching their database, 2) enter the quantity of the ingredient, 3) enter the number of servings your recipe will yield, then voila! You'll have a complete nutrition profile (macro and micro). Enter this info into FitDay as a custom food and name it as the recipe title.

Another useful companion site I use when creating custom foods on FitDay is The World's Healthiest Foods (//whfoods.org). They provide an in-depth nutrient analysis of most fruit, grains, nuts, veggies, legumes, and meat that don't come packaged with a nutrition label.

And lastly, Since I use FitDay's "Nutrition as Percent RDA" report frequently to determine which nutrients I'm lacking on any given week, I go to National Institutes of Health Office of Dietary Supplements (//ods.od.nih.gov) to figure out which foods are high in the particular nutrient I may be lacking that week. Then I include that/those food(s) in my diet over the next few days in an attempt to reach my recommended daily intake (averaged on FitDay). Not only does this site give you a list of foods rich in that nutrient listed by quantity (high to low), it also provides a plethora of other useful data (recommended intakes, deficiency symptoms, health, nutrient overdose, interactions with medications, and other info.

I hope this info helps you get the most use out of FitDay or any other nutrition tracking software! Best of luck to you and your health!

Sammy, thank you for taking the time to comment!
Mary Jane