Guest guest Posted July 15, 2008 Report Share Posted July 15, 2008 I hear you about the evening eating ‹ that¹s my problem too. I do very well during the day, but after dinner I tend to want more, and peanut butter and all-fruit jam on toast is my weakness. There are other food log sites you can use try http://www.thedailyplate.com/ I find FitDay easy to use though, and I don¹t bother with entering every single ingredient every day what a pain that would be. Instead I figure out the meals I most commonly eat and use an excel document ‹ or the recipe calculator at Spark People which is so easy to use ‹ to come up with the nutritional data for the meal, and then divide by individual servings. Then I just enter the custom meals on FitDay. For instance, instead of entering the individual ingredients for my breakfast (1 cup oatmeal, 1 banana, 3/4 cup apple juice, 25 blueberries, and 1 teaspoon cinnamon) I just work out what the nutritionals are once and then create a FitDay entry called ³Oatmeal² and put the stats in for the whole meal. Or if I make a vegan sausage pizza roll using a tortilla, some pizza sauce, one home made vegan Italian sausage, and slices of onion and green pepper, then I just figure out the nutritional data for that one time and make an entry called ³Sausage Pizza² with those stats. Once you¹ve got the foods you most commonly eat in there, you can just pick one breakfast, one lunch, and one dinner (and maybe a couple of snacks) and your whole day is calculated easily. Anna On 15/7/08 6:02 PM, " Geoff Nelder " <geoffnelder wrote: > I'm not huge but with a BMI hovering on 30 and now with knee and heel > pains, along with high blood pressure, my doctor advised me to shed > the lard. I'm the fattest vegan she has on her books. I do loads of > cycling and hiking - except when my knees and heels hurt too much - > and so I'm also the fittest fat person on her books. My problem is > will power. Where do you buy that from? Evening snacks are my > downfall. Even if really healthy, wholemeal bread and peanut butter > sandwiches are unnecessary calories. > > I could join weightwatchers I suppose but I'm too self conscious and > probably one of only a few blokes there. I've tried telling my wife > that we need more sex to get my metabolism up but she said that's not > a great turn-on idea for her. > > In the past few years a month or two on a purely raw food diet works > a treat for me; plus a vegan multivitamin tablet. The GP said go for > that for as long as I want, so I will. > > I've tried the online weight, activity and diet program FitDay. I > find it doesn't often have the foods I want to enter - eg muesli and > its a hassle to put in all the ingredients. Does anyone know of > another online food / weight / exercise diary program that calculates > calories, etc? > > Geoff > http://geoffnelder.com > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 15, 2008 Report Share Posted July 15, 2008 Thanks, Anna, sound advice. I'll give Fitday another chance. BTW I note your email is rodstrulove. Now is that a homage / wish for Rod Stewart? If so I could tell you things... Geoff http://geoffnelder.com , Coop <rodstruelove wrote: > > I hear you about the evening eating ‹ that¹s my problem too. I do very well > during the day, but after dinner I tend to want more, and peanut butter and > all-fruit jam on toast is my weakness. > > There are other food log sites you can use try > http://www.thedailyplate.com/ > > I find FitDay easy to use though, and I don¹t bother with entering every > single ingredient every day what a pain that would be. Instead I figure > out the meals I most commonly eat and use an excel document ‹ or the recipe > calculator at Spark People which is so easy to use ‹ to come up with the > nutritional data for the meal, and then divide by individual servings. Then > I just enter the custom meals on FitDay. > > For instance, instead of entering the individual ingredients for my > breakfast (1 cup oatmeal, 1 banana, 3/4 cup apple juice, 25 blueberries, and > 1 teaspoon cinnamon) I just work out what the nutritionals are once and then > create a FitDay entry called ³Oatmeal² and put the stats in for the whole > meal. > > Or if I make a vegan sausage pizza roll using a tortilla, some pizza sauce, > one home made vegan Italian sausage, and slices of onion and green pepper, > then I just figure out the nutritional data for that one time and make an > entry called ³Sausage Pizza² with those stats. Once you¹ve got the foods > you most commonly eat in there, you can just pick one breakfast, one lunch, > and one dinner (and maybe a couple of snacks) and your whole day is > calculated easily. > > Anna > > > On 15/7/08 6:02 PM, " Geoff Nelder " <geoffnelder wrote: > > > I'm not huge but with a BMI hovering on 30 and now with knee and heel > > pains, along with high blood pressure, my doctor advised me to shed > > the lard. I'm the fattest vegan she has on her books. I do loads of > > cycling and hiking - except when my knees and heels hurt too much - > > and so I'm also the fittest fat person on her books. My problem is > > will power. Where do you buy that from? Evening snacks are my > > downfall. Even if really healthy, wholemeal bread and peanut butter > > sandwiches are unnecessary calories. > > > > I could join weightwatchers I suppose but I'm too self conscious and > > probably one of only a few blokes there. I've tried telling my wife > > that we need more sex to get my metabolism up but she said that's not > > a great turn-on idea for her. > > > > In the past few years a month or two on a purely raw food diet works > > a treat for me; plus a vegan multivitamin tablet. The GP said go for > > that for as long as I want, so I will. > > > > I've tried the online weight, activity and diet program FitDay. I > > find it doesn't often have the foods I want to enter - eg muesli and > > its a hassle to put in all the ingredients. Does anyone know of > > another online food / weight / exercise diary program that calculates > > calories, etc? > > > > Geoff > > http://geoffnelder.com > > > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 15, 2008 Report Share Posted July 15, 2008 LOL, not exactly. My husband¹s name is Rod. But I like Rod Stewart, so I¹d still be interested to hear your stories. Anna On 15/7/08 8:28 PM, " Geoff Nelder " <geoffnelder wrote: > > Thanks, Anna, > > sound advice. I'll give Fitday another chance. > > BTW I note your email is rodstrulove. Now is that a homage / wish for > Rod Stewart? If so I could tell you things... > > Geoff > http://geoffnelder.com > > > <%40> , Coop <rodstruelove > wrote: >> > >> > I hear you about the evening eating ‹ that¹s my problem too. I do very >> well >> > during the day, but after dinner I tend to want more, and peanut butter and >> > all-fruit jam on toast is my weakness. >> > >> > There are other food log sites you can use try >> http://www.thedailyplate.com/ >> > >> > I find FitDay easy to use though, and I don¹t bother with entering every >> > single ingredient every day what a pain that would be. Instead I figure >> out >> > the meals I most commonly eat and use an excel document ‹ or the recipe >> > calculator at Spark People which is so easy to use ‹ to come up with the >> > nutritional data for the meal, and then divide by individual servings. >> Then I >> > just enter the custom meals on FitDay. >> > >> > For instance, instead of entering the individual ingredients for my >> breakfast >> > (1 cup oatmeal, 1 banana, 3/4 cup apple juice, 25 blueberries, and 1 >> teaspoon >> > cinnamon) I just work out what the nutritionals are once and then create a >> > FitDay entry called ³Oatmeal² and put the stats in for the whole meal. >> > >> > Or if I make a vegan sausage pizza roll using a tortilla, some pizza sauce, >> > one home made vegan Italian sausage, and slices of onion and green pepper, >> > then I just figure out the nutritional data for that one time and make an >> > entry called ³Sausage Pizza² with those stats. Once you¹ve got the foods >> you >> > most commonly eat in there, you can just pick one breakfast, one lunch, and >> > one dinner (and maybe a couple of snacks) and your whole day is calculated >> > easily. >> > >> > Anna >> > >> > >> > On 15/7/08 6:02 PM, " Geoff Nelder " <geoffnelder wrote: >> > >>> >> I'm not huge but with a BMI hovering on 30 and now with knee and heel >>> pains, >>> >> along with high blood pressure, my doctor advised me to shed the lard. >>> I'm >>> >> the fattest vegan she has on her books. I do loads of cycling and hiking - >>> >> except when my knees and heels hurt too much - and so I'm also the >>> fittest >>> >> fat person on her books. My problem is will power. Where do you buy that >>> >> from? Evening snacks are my downfall. Even if really healthy, wholemeal >>> bread >>> >> and peanut butter sandwiches are unnecessary calories. >>> >> >>> >> I could join weightwatchers I suppose but I'm too self conscious and >>> probably >>> >> one of only a few blokes there. I've tried telling my wife that we need >>> more >>> >> sex to get my metabolism up but she said that's not a great turn-on idea >>> for >>> >> her. >>> >> >>> >> In the past few years a month or two on a purely raw food diet works a >>> treat >>> >> for me; plus a vegan multivitamin tablet. The GP said go for that for as >>> long >>> >> as I want, so I will. >>> >> >>> >> I've tried the online weight, activity and diet program FitDay. I find it >>> >> doesn't often have the foods I want to enter - eg muesli and its a hassle >>> to >>> >> put in all the ingredients. Does anyone know of another online food / >>> weight >>> >> / exercise diary program that calculates calories, etc? >>> >> >>> >> Geoff http://geoffnelder.com >>> >> > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 15, 2008 Report Share Posted July 15, 2008 I have noticed lately that my evening munchies seems to be tapering off following an " Eat to Live " (Fuhrman) type diet, though I am not entirely strict. If I start wanting sweets in the evening, I know I probably need more water or greens, and may make a green smoothie. But I am finding that even when my hubby is frying eggs or something like that, I don't feel like I need to be snacking in the evening. Pam On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 3:29 AM, Coop <rodstruelove wrote: > I hear you about the evening eating ‹ that¹s my problem too. I do very well > during the day, but after dinner I tend to want more, and peanut butter and > all-fruit jam on toast is my weakness. > > There are other food log sites you can use try > http://www.thedailyplate.com/ > > I find FitDay easy to use though, and I don¹t bother with entering every > single ingredient every day what a pain that would be. Instead I figure > out the meals I most commonly eat and use an excel document ‹ or the recipe > calculator at Spark People which is so easy to use ‹ to come up with the > nutritional data for the meal, and then divide by individual servings. Then > I just enter the custom meals on FitDay. > > For instance, instead of entering the individual ingredients for my > breakfast (1 cup oatmeal, 1 banana, 3/4 cup apple juice, 25 blueberries, and > 1 teaspoon cinnamon) I just work out what the nutritionals are once and then > create a FitDay entry called ³Oatmeal² and put the stats in for the whole > meal. > > Or if I make a vegan sausage pizza roll using a tortilla, some pizza sauce, > one home made vegan Italian sausage, and slices of onion and green pepper, > then I just figure out the nutritional data for that one time and make an > entry called ³Sausage Pizza² with those stats. Once you¹ve got the foods > you most commonly eat in there, you can just pick one breakfast, one lunch, > and one dinner (and maybe a couple of snacks) and your whole day is > calculated easily. > > Anna > > On 15/7/08 6:02 PM, " Geoff Nelder " <geoffnelder wrote: > >> I'm not huge but with a BMI hovering on 30 and now with knee and heel >> pains, along with high blood pressure, my doctor advised me to shed >> the lard. I'm the fattest vegan she has on her books. I do loads of >> cycling and hiking - except when my knees and heels hurt too much - >> and so I'm also the fittest fat person on her books. My problem is >> will power. Where do you buy that from? Evening snacks are my >> downfall. Even if really healthy, wholemeal bread and peanut butter >> sandwiches are unnecessary calories. >> >> I could join weightwatchers I suppose but I'm too self conscious and >> probably one of only a few blokes there. I've tried telling my wife >> that we need more sex to get my metabolism up but she said that's not >> a great turn-on idea for her. >> >> In the past few years a month or two on a purely raw food diet works >> a treat for me; plus a vegan multivitamin tablet. The GP said go for >> that for as long as I want, so I will. >> >> I've tried the online weight, activity and diet program FitDay. I >> find it doesn't often have the foods I want to enter - eg muesli and >> its a hassle to put in all the ingredients. Does anyone know of >> another online food / weight / exercise diary program that calculates >> calories, etc? >> >> Geoff >> http://geoffnelder.com >> > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 15, 2008 Report Share Posted July 15, 2008 One note on Weightwatchers: You don't have to go to meetings. I've been doing WeightWatchers online for a couple of years now, and have never stepped foot in a meeting. It doesn't work for everyone, but I like it that way. Haras On Jul 15, 2008, at 3:02 AM, Geoff Nelder wrote: I'm not huge but with a BMI hovering on 30 and now with knee and heel pains, along with high blood pressure, my doctor advised me to shed the lard. I'm the fattest vegan she has on her books. I do loads of cycling and hiking - except when my knees and heels hurt too much - and so I'm also the fittest fat person on her books. My problem is will power. Where do you buy that from? Evening snacks are my downfall. Even if really healthy, wholemeal bread and peanut butter sandwiches are unnecessary calories. I could join weightwatchers I suppose but I'm too self conscious and probably one of only a few blokes there. I've tried telling my wife that we need more sex to get my metabolism up but she said that's not a great turn-on idea for her. In the past few years a month or two on a purely raw food diet works a treat for me; plus a vegan multivitamin tablet. The GP said go for that for as long as I want, so I will. I've tried the online weight, activity and diet program FitDay. I find it doesn't often have the foods I want to enter - eg muesli and its a hassle to put in all the ingredients. Does anyone know of another online food / weight / exercise diary program that calculates calories, etc? Geoff http://geoffnelder.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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