Wed, May-10-17, 18:08
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Senior Member
Posts: 6,671
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Plan: General Low Carb
Stats: 164/162.6/151
BF:Sure is
Progress: 11%
Location: SoCal
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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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