Help w/ food planning on fitday.com
#170422 - 04/16/05 08:13 PM
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uwponine
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Just starting w/ fitday.com. How do I set goals for cals, protein, fats, sugar, etc.? I'm totally lost w/ all this!
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OK, not quite sure what your question here - you're not sure how many calories carbs etc. you should be eating each day, or you're not sure how to set that on fitday?
If you're not sure how much you should be eating each day, check out this site: Healthy Body Calculator. You just enter all your info and it will give you really good numbers to aim for for weight loss or maintenance or weight gain, whatever your goal is.
Fitday also gives you some numbers, in that it tells you how much your BMR and daily calories burnt are (see the activities page). Basically for weight loss (if that's your goal), you need to be eating fewer calories than you're burning (maintenance: calories in = calories out, weight gain: calories in exceed calories out).
To set goals that you can check up on, click on the "goals" tab and enter your goals. You can check if you're achieving these goals by looking at the reports tab, at the report "am I meeting my custom nutrition goals." There are also lots of other good reports in that tab.
Hope that helped, and don't hesitate if you have any other questions! 
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Thanks. Yeah, right now I'm trying to calculate how many cals, how much from protein, etc. Fitday.com is the only one I've found. Do you have any other/better suggestions of how to maintain a daily food log?
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Hey Laurel!
So I went to the site and provided the info. It said the LOWEST cals to consume is 1,200. It didn't tell me the IDEAl tho. Did I do something wrong?
Sorry I keep bugging you...I just don't get it 
Hope you're doing super! Love, Ruchie
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Well you can do it by hand or in an excel document or something but you'd have to look up all the foods individually in a book or on a website and then add it all up yourself. That's why I prefer fitday - it does all that for you! 
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Hey Ruchie darlin!
Yeah I just found that site the other day... makes things easier
If you put all your info in it and then click "view results" it should come up with something that looks like a nutrition label with the title "Your Nutrition Facts" in blue, and with how many calories, carbs, protein, fat etc. you should be getting each day. Then I think below that it has an explanation in which it says that 1200 is the lowest the calculator is programmed to recommend (i.e. because it's not safe to go below that no matter what your weight or goals etc.)
Try it again, it should work
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Ohhh! So it's not supposed to say how many cals you should be getting...just the # you shouldn't go below! Thanks Laurel!!!! Now I get it  (I ammm getting it, right?)
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