Why Not Try FitDay?
June 29th, 2005 by Y.G.Every forum, specialized website and blog about weight loss was sooner or later announcing that logging one’s daily food intake was a good way of monitoring whether we eat more than we think or not. Indeed, it has proven an efficient way of keeping food intake into check – who would feel proud of logging “downed down half a cake and a cup of ice-cream for dessert”? Better not eat it in first place, right? (If doing the thing properly, that is…)
At the time, I was given a link to a site called FitDay. So it’s a paying software, yes, but what’s important is that they have an online version, which is free, and that one can, evidently, access from everywhere. Tons of foods are listed in it, raw, frozen, prepared meals, with sauce, without sauce, with added fat during cooking, without added fat… You name it, they probably have it. Two or three clicks, and the food is added to your daily calendar of food intake, along with the calories and amounts of proteins/carbs/fats it contains. You can do the same for your daily exercise, as well as log your start, current and target weight, ask for personal goals to be set (such as “do I eat enough proteins every day?”), and, generally, monitor on small graphics how you have been doing in the past weeks and months. More than “just” a food log, in fact.
(Note that I haven’t tried to software – paying – version; I’ve been very happy so far with the online one.)
The only big reproach I’d make to it is its focus on US foods (which is normal, as it’s a US-based software); I haven’t found something as performing in my own country, yet I don’t always know what US equivalents to look for in there for what I buy, and entering all my usual foods as “Custom” has been a little time-consuming at first. Fortunately, it only needs to be done once for each food, and after this, it gets pretty easy to simply click and choose every time I need to add one of them to my “today I ate…” list.
