I recently signed up for six sessions with a personal trainer. As part of my regimen, she asked me to start a food diary. "Arrgh!" I thought, knowing that personal accountability when it comes to my eating habits was not one of my favorite things.
So, I started looking for a good online calorie counter/food diary. My favorite is at Livestrong. Their "Daily Plate" section lets you pick a calorie intake goal based on how much weight you want to lose per week and your general daily activity level. Then you record your daily food intake, using their fairly-extensive database of food items (including restaurant food and other prepared foods) or entering in your own information.
You can also record your daily activity (their activity database includes "sitting in church", if you can believe that!). It adds those calories you expend to your daily allowance and subtracts the calories you take in. So you have a running total of how many calories you can consume in a day. Water intake is also recorded.
Give it a try! I think you'll like it!
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3 comments:
sounds pretty cool! I will have to check it out.
I was doing pretty good with my food diary for a while, but I wasn't counting the calories. This website looks really helpful with that!
That is a great idea! Thanks, I need to get back on the diet bandwagon!
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