What app does IST use to track their calories/nutrients/minerals/vitamin?
I recently deleted myfitnesspal as it is shit and have cronometer a shot. It has less options for the barcode scanner (scanner didn't work on mfp) but it shows more nutrients/minerals than mfp. However it's lacking in some ways unless I pay for it and it's too expensive.
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Chronometer. If it's good enough for multiple studies on nutrition, it's good enough for me
Cronometer. I use it, even the nutritionists and coaches I know use it.
>Captcha: NOPWHY
I use cronometer. My only complaint is i find the barcode scanner can be a bit shit as most of the data seems to be from US and I'm ausgay
It does that now? I used to use it before it had anything already inputted it. Had to measure my ingredients and add everything manually.
Same. I scanned my bread (abbot dark rye) and mainland butter and it had not found for nutrient section. Scanning my nuts also didn't give me anything in some cases.
>had not found for nutrient section
No data* this is really annoying as i am just trying to get a general sense of my nutrition consumption, i am not going to autisicly track everything everyday.
I use Cronometer and like it very much. I'd be happy to pay $20/year for it but it actually costs $55 iirc, which is absurd. I never tried the code scanner because I'm an adult, so I cook my own food.
Cronometer. Its clunky, and obtuse, but best in terms of tracking. As you mentioned MFP sucks. They had an incident the other day that totally fricked shit up. I tried premium and there are bugs with premium only features so i just deal with the ads.
I don't have problems with ads because i have adgaurd on my phone.
Is there a free version? How does it compare to cronometer free version?
There is a free trial, but not free version.
Some benefits:
>calculates your TDEE from your weight and food log
>Easily the best scanner
>Nice aesthetic and pretty good UI
>tracks vitamins and minerals (if you care)
If you'd rather not pay for all that, I recommend Cronometer + excel. Get's the job done.
Macrofactor because I'm not poor.
They are the transparent about the TDEE calculations, they lag and are flat out unsuitable if your daily activity varies like if you run significant mileage.
Not transparent *
You can substitute it with your own figures or select which equation it's using for bmr or whether or not you want it to use thermic effect. Then have something Samsung health or whatever fitness tracker app automatically import activity. It's just no one ever really goes digging around in the menus.
The setting I want for it is to scale carbs with activity and leave fat protein as static values but I'm not sure if they have that yet.
When i used it like 3 months ago their support people basically told me im an idiot for asking for activity tracking. If they actually added it, kudos on them, but i doubt it. Frick those insufferable c**ts.
Well it's been there the whole time as well as the other app connectivity and you can just add "custom exercise" that just lets you fill in duration and calories
Wait are we talking about macrofactor or cronometer? Macrofactor refuses to add activity tracking because allegedly itd be too inaccurate, yet somehow using your weight which fluctuates 10lb in a fricking day is “fine”
How good is cronometer measuring liquids using grams?
Best app to use with a fitbit? Im getting one for xmas
Cronometer just found out i can see nutrition summary under dsily report. No premium needed, maybe for fasting i will do the trial to see .
What's the best omega 3&7 ratios? This app as for default 1:10
How did I do for today lads?
>Left to right is break, lunch and dinner
>Didn't track water
>Many ingredients had no data for vitamins/minerals
>Pizza gave me 16.7 grams of sodium
No vitamin/mineral data for
- walnuts
- butter x2
- dark rye bread
- tap water
- tiger roll
- green tea bag
- jarlsberg cheese
- peppercorn
- extra virgin olive oil x2
- yeast
- flour
- tomato paste
- cheese
- shaved leg ham
- pepperoni
- olives
- pineapple
Also seeds was really hard to do. I just guessed because my scale is crap. Only had half a teaspoon for each seed except pumpkin and sunflower.
What scale? I use an Ozeri I got on Amazon, works well but is a little dinky. Looking to upgrade 2bh, might get a israeliteeler's scale and a heavy duty scale to get better granularity on the weight.
Seems I would need 2 different types of scales. kitchen for grams and lab for >1g
Alright I changed some ingredients to a different version to get a rough idea for nutrients.pic related
Soffritto
Wow the talonfitness YouTuber was correct. The average diet is 1:10 ratio omega 3/6... He recommended a 1:4 ratio... I will probably need to supplement this. Not ALA since i get that in my nuts and seeds but EPA and DHA.
I made a custom meal but only ate 5/8 of it. I can't figure out how to change the meal portion on the dairy.
Idk I always set the serving as 1 and used decimals or grams of it.
It doesn't let me set any servings for custom meals.
I made my own simple app to keep a running total of my calories and protein intake, to compare against the totals on my fitness watch when cutting.
Simple and unasthetic but boots in 1 second and works great.
Nobody selling my data, no bloated database full of slightly wrong numbers entered by morons
I just enter the per 100g calorie and protein amount and do simple floating point multiplication to figure out what my intake has been.
What to do about food that's not listed?
Or stuff that are mostly street food?