13 November 2008
Weight & Food Update
Posted by Brad Hefta-Gaub under: Fitness.
Now that I’m done with my Ironman, I’m trying to make a few adjustments in my food routine. In particular, I’ve started a new effort to kick Dairy and Wheat… I’m sort of working toward a plan to eat the Paleo Diet… but since I haven’t read “the book”, I’m not following it strictly. I haven’t had any refined sugar, dairy, or bread for a couple days.
I’m also not exactly tracking my food intake, but I am trying to pay attention to it… in the process of doing this, I’m further convinced that tracking food is a pain, and even with all the crop of “nutrition trackers” out there it’s not really any easier.
I’m curious about your feedback:
- If you use an online nutrition tracker, which one do you use, and why?
- What do you find annoying about it?
- What do you like about it?
- If we added Nutrition tracking to Sweat365, what features would you most like to see?
- Does your nutrition tracker support lookup of foods? (Seems like it should) If so, how does it handle when food are similar to each other? Do you want more specific choices or are you more interested in general choices?
- When do you like to enter your food? When you eat it? All at once at the end of the day? (If you do it at the end of the day, how do you keep track during the day?)
- Do you use a mobile device (phone, pda, etc) to help track your food? If so, which one? Do you use a web page, application, SMS, email, or some other technique to input your food?
Health:
- Date: 11/13/2008
- Weight: 143
- Mood: Normal
- Sleep Pattern: Normal
5 Comments so far...
marathonerwannabe Says:
If you are considering the Paleo Diet, try checking out this guys website. He’s a great guy. I sent him an email about nutrition and using GU when on the Paleo diet and about my knee injury. He emailed me back AND forwarded my email to his nutritionist.
http://www2.trainingbible.com/joesblog/blog.html
Very nice people.
P.S. I haven’t used the nutrition tracker as of yet, but I’ll try it out. I haven’t really been eating like I should. Sometimes I eat breakfast and take my vitamins and then dinner at night. Other days I just take my vitamins with coffee and graze throughout the day and then eat dinner.
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jdkcubed Says:
I have learned as a rule that applies anywhere in life. If you do not track it you cannot control it. So tracking food is a must (for me). I have not found any of the online trackers useful. i do however use the Calorie Kings food/exercise tracker regularly. It leaves some things to be desired but basically provides some nice reporting and tracking ideas. Also you can add or subtract tracking stuff (like add sodium and it will track your dailey consumption) is it the easiest. No copies from day to day are annoying, but the database is huge. I have used it for the last 4 years and have only added about 30 foods that were not in its database.
Tom Says:
Hey Fat Kid, this blog is awesome!
I found a cool website that you might want to take a look at, its http://www.bodytrace.com
free weight tracking and time-lapse video…
take a look,
tom
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