Rorschach Posted May 5, 2010 Posted May 5, 2010 Hey good news i found my account/password and was playing around with the myplate feature, I'm pretty impressed with how well it does at calculating everything (even though I had to fudge the numbers a bit to get it to give me the right amount of calories for the day, it was telling me I should be eating 3000 calories a day to lose 2 pounds a week ) So anyway I'm going to try and keep this myplate thing up to date for the next couple of weeks and see how well it does keeping me on track. I'd encourage everybody else to get on board with this, also we can use live strong to do the unofficial LS challenge thread outside of LS. Please put your livestrong username here so I can get in touch with everybody and tell me if your planning on using it!
cuppa Posted May 5, 2010 Posted May 5, 2010 (edited) hey connect with me!! http://www.livestrong.com/profile/lindahwa/ yes, I tracked mine for 2 weeks and asked people to critique my food (and also my workout schedules). I thought I ate healthy then after tracking them, I realized that by morning, I am already so loaded with sugar (like 300% more than what I suppose to consume). I shudder to think what my plates look like last year when I eat nothing but chocolate for my dinner (and probably diabetes was in my near future if I didn't change). One thing though....their workout calories are overestimated (at least for my bodyweight). For example, they listed 800 calories for one hour of kickboxing. Since I wear heart rate monitor, the most intense kickboxing (heart rate went to 208 and almost passed out sometimes), I could only burn at most 600 cals in one hour. But maybe someone bigger than me burn more, quite possible. PS: get the Iphone apps for myplate. It's very convenient, everytime you eat, just take 5 - 10 secs to track it to your plate. Edited May 5, 2010 by cuppa
Author Rorschach Posted May 5, 2010 Author Posted May 5, 2010 hey connect with me!! http://www.livestrong.com/profile/lindahwa/ yes, I tracked mine for 2 weeks and asked people to critique my food (and also my workout schedules). I thought I ate healthy then after tracking them, I realized that by morning, I am already so loaded with sugar (like 300% more than what I suppose to consume). I shudder to think what my plates look like last year when I eat nothing but chocolate for my dinner (and probably diabetes was in my near future if I didn't change). One thing though....their workout calories are overestimated (at least for my bodyweight). For example, they listed 800 calories for one hour of kickboxing. Since I wear heart rate monitor, the most intense kickboxing (heart rate went to 208 and almost passed out sometimes), I could only burn at most 600 cals in one hour. But maybe someone bigger than me burn more, quite possible. PS: get the Iphone apps for myplate. It's very convenient, everytime you eat, just take 5 - 10 secs to track it to your plate. I added you, I'm not sure if I'm going to use the exercise tracker or not, but I like the diet tracker. I think I'm going to have to go get a digital kitchen scale to start measuring things in ounces so I know what the serving size is.
cuppa Posted May 5, 2010 Posted May 5, 2010 I choose livestrong over sparkpeople.com because of their diet tracker. I LOVEEE sushi...if you are like me, they have all kind of sushi listed with the calorie breakdown and everything. You can just guesstimate, doesn't have to be exact. all this does is to give you an idea on your food composition. For months, I try to keep 40/40/20 for Carb/Protein/Fat and failing miserably. I'm just a carb addict but hey, maybe you can! Also, the sodium, goodness, I wouldn't know that the food I ate (K-bar) were so loaded with sugar & sodium.
Author Rorschach Posted May 5, 2010 Author Posted May 5, 2010 so far a third of my calories for the day came from the dressing on my salad haha. I didn't put alot on (in my opinion) but I have no idea how much 2 tables spoons of dressing actually is. About the only specific goal I have in my diet outside of total calories is keeping carbs as low as possible, under 100g.
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