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has anyone paid for fitday pc?

funkapotimus

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What do you use for your calorie counting needs?

Fitday PC is $20 and sounds a lot better than the free web version because you can drag and drop foods from your recent list... this would make 95% of my entries go really fast. Has anyone here actually paid for this?

Otherwise if you're using an Excel sheet and dont mind sharing, I'd love to take a look at it.

I'm just essentially looking for the fastest way to keep a consistent log, so any ideas are appreciated.
 

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I had a client who bought it and they said it was the same as the online version with fewer features.
 

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i use the free version all the time
 

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Apparently my daily diet is 66% fat.
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No alcohol though.
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I thank fitday for preventing me from plumping up from beasting on 80/20 ground beef
 

funkapotimus

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Originally Posted by why
I had a client who bought it and they said it was the same as the online version with fewer features.

Thanks for the heads up. I'll just stick with the site for now then
 

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I downloaded fitday and have to concur, the full software version is not as good as the free online version. Yeah dragging and dropping will make things faster, but you'll be slowed down by having to enter in so many custom foods into the software that the online version has for some reason.

This was an older version, can't comment on v2.
 

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I've been using fitday for the last two years but recently started using dailyplate.com. It is slower than fitday.com, but it does have a much wider selection of foods that already have nutritional values filled out.
 

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I bought it and still use it. I haven't used the online version in so long that I can't remember the differences between the two. Though the full version has a section for goals, body measurements, tracking criteria, a journal, and a few other things that I don't think are on the online version.

As for custom foods, I would always put mine in rather than look up whatever the online fitday said just because I liked to be specific, i.e. I would put in Publix 4.oz Chicken Breast rather than just generic chicken breast if that makes sense.

Overall though I like it. It's simple and effective. If you can do everything you need with the online version, then don't worry about buying it.
 

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Anybody know if there's an option on fitday to subtract the dietary fiber from the daily carbohydrate count?

I would like to see my weekly ratios displayed like this.
 

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Originally Posted by bnsnv
I've been using fitday for the last two years but recently started using dailyplate.com. It is slower than fitday.com, but it does have a much wider selection of foods that already have nutritional values filled out.
Slower than fitday? That seems borderline impossible. Is fitday really slow for anyone else? edit - isn't fiber already subtracted? I know the number is total carbs, but the percentage and calorie count is total carbs minus fiber as far as I can tell.
 

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Originally Posted by dcg
Slower than fitday? That seems borderline impossible. Is fitday really slow for anyone else?

edit - isn't fiber already subtracted? I know the number is total carbs, but the percentage and calorie count is total carbs minus fiber as far as I can tell.


Nope they don't. Test this out yourself. Go to tomorrow and just add a raw avocado to your food. An avocado is like 14g of carbohydrate with 11g of dietary fiber. You'll see that they count all 14g of carbs as carbs in the daily chart. Lame.

I created a 'custom food' to subtract the carbs from yogurt but I can't seem to get around this dieary fiber issue without having to manually creating a custom food for everything that has fiber and subtracting. That's just not worth it.
 

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MMM, avocados.......

Just tried it - using "avocado, raw" gets you 14.8g carbs, 11.6g fiber. They count 53 calories from carbs.

14.8*4 = 59.2
(14.8-11.6)*4 = 12.8

So fitday seems to be counting the calories from most but not all of the fiber. I wonder if this is a soluble fiber vs. insoluble fiber issue? I don't know what ratio of each is present in avocados.

Yesterday I had 275.2 grams of carbs with 39.8 grams of fiber. Fitday showed 1004 calories from carbs.

275.2*4 = 1100.8
(275.2-39.8)*4 = 941.6

The odd thing is that they're counting each gram of fiber as ~ 3.5 carbs from the avocado ( (53-12.8)/11.6 ), but each gram is closer to ~1.6 looking at my total carbs from yesterday ( (1004-941.6)/39.8 ). And of course when you enter your own foods you don't indicate soluble vs. insoluble fiber. So I dunno what the hell they're doing.
 

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Yeah, I know. They really should be thinking about calories that the body metabolizes. I get a lot of fiber through veggies and avocados and it's throwing my carb ratio out of whack.

Another thing is they count calories from alcohol, which the body doesn't really metabolize as energy either.

I care about the calories my body can use, just not the ones that I ingest. Fitday needs to fix this.
 

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I was wondering if they were counting all carbs but using a multiplier of around 3.6-3.7 instead of 4, which as I understand it is a little more accurate. However, it's not consistently using any exact number day to day.
 

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