Myfitness pal

Hi,

What I did was enter several days food into the app.
That gave me a baseline of what I had been doing.

Then I tweaked the ratios until I came up with a balance that I felt was sustainable.

One thing worth doing when you are dealing with my fitness pal - check that the foods you select from the database actually have the correct nutrients entered into them.

Most of the entries have been created by members of the public, and they often just put fat and calories into the fields. So make sure each entry you use has fat, protein and carbs entered - plus calories, if you want to track them too.

Hope that helps!

I find it more useful to input your own intake rather than select from the database. If a product has a barcode then scan that and put it in, if you're making your own meal do it and save it to recipes for future use. It takes a while to get a good database built up for yourself but if you eat fairly regular meals (ie thurs night spag bol night) then it can work well.

Great app, Link it to Endemondo for your exercise, Also download Glucose Buddy to keep track of your BG readings.

The app is good but they really should control the rubbish food data that some people load. It compromises the quality of the app. They should restrict the loading of the food data.