Question:
Which is the best on-line diet journal/support to use?
I am just shy of 10 months out of RNY, and the weight loss is starting to slow down a bit now. (which I am fine with) I'm doing great, but I now want to try one of these daily journal/support websites for the extra encouragement and push to keep me going strong. I really want to reach my goal which is only 40 (short) pounds away! (I SO can not believe that!) So, I am asking for your opinions on websites such as; Sparkpeople.com, Fitday.com, thedailyplate.com, myfitnesspal.com, or any others that you may know of and want to share. Which one is your favorite and why? Have you tried several and have a favorite? I plan on setting this up for Jan. 1st to start my year off right. I appreciate your help, suggestions and opinions! Happy New Year 2010! — thegoodlife (posted on December 27, 2009)
December 27, 2009
You might consider Weight Watchers. It's not free but they have both
online and on location support. I also like SparkPeople.com for their
daily food journal and calorie oounting. They also have support groups
online. Haven't tried the others you mentioned. Best success.
— Janell C.
December 27, 2009
You have a fitness tracker and nutrition tracker right here on OH, have you
tried it yet? Staying with this site gives you the WLS support you need
and the tools you are wanting as well.
Cathy
— motomom_73069
December 27, 2009
I use http://www.livestrong.com/
It works great for me.
— Gary Deutsch
December 28, 2009
thedailyplate.com is a free website to track your food and it even lets you
create your own recipes. I understand that it has the biggest data base
for food too.I have been using this website since I was maybe a couple of
months out. I love thedailyplate it even lets you keep track of you
exercising.
— azreggie
December 28, 2009
I use SparkPeople.com. It's INCREDIBLE. It has places for you to log your
food, add foods that are not in their lists, make your own
"favorites" list and "food groupings" list so that you
don't constantly have to search through theirs. The food log also keeps
track for you of calories, carbs, fats, proteins, sodium, potassium, iron,
calcium, magnesium, folate, or anything else you want to track, for 7 days
at a time. You can also make notes on what you've eaten each day (for
instance if something makes you sick, or if you couldn't get in all your
protein on a certain day for some reason, or you just want to keep some
kind of food journal notes). It will also print out a "grocery
list" based on what you've been logging. You can log your cardio
exercises, and log your strength training exercises, and you can add your
own exercises (I do physical therapy exercises, so I log those, too). You
set up your own Spark Page, and people can give you "Spark Gifts"
(virtual "goodies") to say hello, welcome, good job, give you
inspiration, award your performance, etc. You can journal there, make
appointments and have reminders sent to your email, you can blog about
anything and read other peoples' blogs, you can read health news articles,
and information about just about any kind of health issue from "A to
Z"; you can enter your favorite recipes, and as long as you have the
number of servings the recipe makes, it will come up and give you a
"nutritional label" for a single serving just like you'd see on
the store packaging of something you were buying. You can save the recipes
to your own recipe box, or share them with others, and you can search the
recipes others have entered by several criteria in addition to searchwords
like "curry dishes" or "spaghetti" or whatever. You
can answer health trivia questions, and take polls, and the best thing of
all is that you can watch video clips of about 100 or more different
exercises, so that you know how to do them. They show weight machines,
using the balance ball, and the resistance bands, and they show exercises
you can do without using ANY equipment at all, like "wall
pushups". It's an incredible site. A neat thing about all this is
that for each thing you do on the site, you earn "points", and
for each level of points, you get a virtual "trophy". And best
of all, it's all FREE!!! I got totally addicted to the site, and I do
everything there! You can do some of the same stuff at these other sites,
but no other site I've come across has all the bells and whistles of
SparkPeople.com.
— Erica Alikchihoo
December 28, 2009
Thank you for all the good suggestions! I am looking forward to getting
started. Happy New Year!
— thegoodlife
December 28, 2009
I LOVE myfooddiary.com!! It's $9/month, but has SO much to offer. You can
build your own recipes and it will tell you the nutritional info. You can
add your favorite foods to your "fridge" for easily adding them
to your daily menus. You can also track your body measurements, physical
activity and so much more! Great reports to take your information to the
doctor appointments. Just such an easy, wonderfully useful site!
— Melissa C.
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