Thread: Practical way to count calories. Is there any?

thanks for all your sugestions, they helped me a lot.

Quote: Originally Posted by Back on Track I quite.... don't get it. I mean, I must find my macros, then estimate how much grams of protein, carbs and fat I need per day. Okay until now. I'll take my breakfast for example: 1 cup of skimmed milk 1 banana 2 soup spoons of oat 2 slices of whole wheat bread 1 slice of ricotta cheese I think your sweating the small stuff here. It isn't going to make a huge differnce in how you cut...

I use myfooddiary.com (it's a pay service) but I like the UI. For food that I don't know the nutritional data of I always check http://www.nutritiondata.com/ which uses the 7500+ items from the USDA database and all their custom units of measure. The best way I have found to measure food is by weight (that is how USDA does it as well) so buying a kitchen scale is essential at first to get your portion control under control. I use my...

www.nutritiondata.com Great site for whole foods...that don't have labels... Get yourself some excel spreadsheets going.... You will find that you eat the same foods often and even the same meals repeatedly making the tracking easy... I got to the point where I could build a spreadsheet for a day's intake in about 5 minutes. You can go into my blog and download some examples if you like to get you started. I have the P/C/F formulas...

Google it. I've found I can usually find just about anything's nutrient value from google, or at least something very similar. I use fitday.com for tracking my calories, and for most natural/organic things they are already loaded in there and for most of those it gives you a variety of different size type like oz, slice, cup, etc... Buying yourself a simple food-scale to weigh your food on also helps.

I've used both Dailyplate and Fitday. It's a bit of a pain in the beginning, but once you set up your custom foods and/or meals the process becomes much less burdensome. Buying a food scale to get a sense of portions also helps.

I use dailyplate.com. It's a great website to enter your food choices, and it calculates your macros, calories and all other percentages you want to know. It has helped me a lot.

Quote: Originally Posted by john_e_turner_ii I use dailyplate.com. It's a great website to enter your food choices, and it calculates your macros, calories and all other percentages you want to know. It has helped me a lot. The DailyPlate is a good one. You can find the calorie content of just about every food and meal out there including restaurants and fast food places.

Dailyplate is much less of a pain than Fitday,and the Dailyplate UI is nice.

Here's a plan that works for me. Once someone showed me this, I never counted another calorie. There's a little math on the front end, after that, everything is easy. A gram of macro (carb/pro/fat) consistently has about the same number of calories. Fat: 1 gram = 9 calories Protein: 1 gram = 4 calories Carbohydrates: 1 gram = 4 calories Alcohol: 1 gram = 7 calories Using these numbers I back into what I need to eat for the day....