Question:
Having trouble putting in quanties of food for fitday.com? Any suggestions?
I'm starting to use fitday.com. The only problem I am having is putting in the quanity of food I eat. For example I had a few stuffed mushrooms with crabmeat for dinner. I know I had 3 mushrooms but not sure how much crabmeat was in it. Or I had a few crackers & cheese spread. I know I ate about 4 crackers but not sure how much cheese spread I ate with it? How do I quantify that or keep track of those things that are hard to keep track of? Also I noticed if you try to change the quanity the lowest amount is oz. Us WLS patients sometimes only eat a few bites of things. How do you enter a few bites of a sandwich for example? How many oz is that? LOL?? Any suggestions? — Allison T. (posted on September 24, 2002)
September 23, 2002
You can enter in decimal amounts. Bread is probably quantified by the
slice. If you only use one slice of bread and only eat 1/2 of it, then
enter in 0.5 for quantity. Ditto for oz. You can enter 0.5, 1.5, 2.1 as
appropriate.
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As far as the amount of crabmeat or cheese spread or your sandwich filling
goes, you will have to guesstimate it. Remember those medicine cups in
the hospital? They hold 2 tablespoons - that's equivalent to 1 oz
(volume, not weight). Many of the foods on fitday.com have volume
measurements (cup) and weight measurements (oz). If they have the volume
measurement, then try to imagine the amount of the crabmeat, spread, etc in
that medicine cup.
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If it would fill the medicine cup once (1 oz or 2 Tbsp), then you would
enter .125 for the quantity of the cup measurement. If it would fill up
two of them, then enter .25, etc.
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Hope this helps...JR (open RNY 07/17 -83 pounds)
— John Rushton
September 23, 2002
I usually have to guesstimate when I enter some food quantities on
fitday.com and I do over-estimate sometimes because I tend to be
unreallistic about the quantity of food I eat. Now once I am a post-op I
expect all that will change.
— Linda B.
September 23, 2002
You have to guess, or measure your food. For me... it works to measure
anything that I can. I know most people have an aversion to this, they
think its too much like dieting. For me, its about making sure I get the
right amounts of things and I don't short change myself on protein or get
more of something else that I don't need.<br><br>As to the
amounts, you can put in .25 in the quantity, and if the smallest is an
ounce that you have specified, it will do 1/4 of an ounce... If I have a
few bites.. I think about how much of a piece of bread that is, how much
turkey that is.. and estimate from there... fitday will be as exact as you
let it.
— Lisa C.
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