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Old Wed, May-10-17, 17:33
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I've searched the forums and cannot find a thread comparing the Atkins app and My Fitness Pal app.

I thought I was going to use the Atkins app but after a little research it seems the My Fitness Pal app may be a better fit for me.

I'd love to hear how you track/log you food intake. Please take a moment to comment. Thanks.
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Old Wed, May-10-17, 18:08
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Plan: General Low Carb
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I've only compared MFP to the sparkpeople.com nutrition tracker. I prefer sparkpeople.

You have to join (free) to watch the Nutrition Tracker video (find it by using the search feature) but I highly recommend it.

Since there are far fewer foods on LC than on the SAD, I have chosen to make custom entries for all my foods by clicking "Add Food Not Listed". Every time I ate something new, I would look it up on fatsecret.com (easiest USDA interface IMO) and use their data to create an entry for 100 g. of the food on sparkpeople. (Most foods on fatsecret, you can select to display info for 100g; if not you have to do a little math)

Then I'd weigh my foods (or ingredients) in grams as I prepared them. If a food weighed, say, 58 grams, I would enter it as .58 (of my 100 g entry). So easy.

If you make custom entries like that, be sure to put how much of the food you are making the entry for, in the title. There are bound to be some things you will use by the tablespoon, for example. So, for broccoli, I'd put "Broccoli, raw, 100g" as the title, but for olive oil, I'd put "Olive Oil, 1 tbsp"

I didn't make a ton of custom entries all at once. Just, whenever I ate a food that I hadn't already made an entry for, I'd do it when I was done eating. It didn't take long to get almost everything I ate on a regular basis into my "favorites".

Hope that helps. Do watch the video.
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Old Wed, May-10-17, 18:59
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Thanks. I'll check it out.
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Old Thu, May-11-17, 04:44
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Plan: P:E/DDF
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When you search, always used Advanced Search (in smaller letters under the regular search box) the regular one is disabled.

Here is a previous thread and link to another for various opinions on trackers, but I like MFP. Works great after you adjust the Goals for LC. The first week may be a pain to enter recipes, etc. but after a few weeks, your commonly eaten foods will pop up from history or saved...input is then fast.

http://forum.lowcarber.org/showthread.php?t=456984

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Old Thu, May-11-17, 06:07
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Plan: CALP with Primal Leanings
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I use MFP, it has suited my needs so I stay with it
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Old Thu, May-11-17, 08:34
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When you search, always used Advanced Search (in smaller letters under the regular search box) the regular one is disabled.

http://forum.lowcarber.org/showthread.php?t=456984


thanks for the info Jey100.
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