Free Food and Fitness Journal Information!

It's hard to keep track of what you eat and how much you exercise and how to tie it all together to reach your goals. 

This is just one way. But it is sometimes just that little bit of help that we all need to get going in the right direction.


I wanted to share a great free website that I have used - it takes only a few minutes to enter your daily food and activity and you can update that each evening. 

The website home page is http://www.everydayhealth.com.

There is loads of good information here, but I want to draw your attention to the "My Calorie Counter" button.

Click on it and you are presented with another page of information.  The page should be at http://www.everydayhealth.com/calorie-counter.aspx


How to Navigate - or to get to where you want to be:

The first box currently says "New and Improved" along with a description.  At the end of the description is a link to go to Your Journal.

At this point you will need to register or sign in. 
You should only have to do this once if you tell it to remember you and don't forget to bookmark the Journal page itself.

Once on the Journal page, scroll down, you should see the meals listed (Breakfast, Lunch, Snack, Dinner) and below that is the Exercise Log.  All of these have an ADD button.
You can add the foods under the specific meal or Click the first ADD Food button on the page and you will be given the option of doing so later. 

Example:

Under Breakfast click the ADD FOOD button.  It will open a dialog box (screen shot)

This is mine, as as you can see it stored the ones I added.  The yellow stars mark it as being also found in my Favorites.  Notice the Tabs at the top say: Search Foods, Recently Added My Favorites and Entered by Me.
 
If you need to add a new food, first do a search in the box where it says What did You Eat Today?  


If you don't see a food listed that is exactly what you need, you can add your own - just use the label information on the specific package you purchased at the grocery store and plug in the numbers.  Same with the exercises, although it may take a bit of research on your part to find the calories burned information.

 
The thing I like about this particular counter is the ability to add unique food items and to save all of them to your Favorites (click on the star to turn it yellow).  So if you are a creature of habit, then be sure to save foods you eat all the time in your Favorites and just click to add them every day. Exercises too!

This counter is very flexible and allows you to use the drop down boxes to select the meal, when you ate the food (today?), and how much or how many.

 
I believe they have also added a feature that lets you copy entire meals to another day - say for instance you eat the same thing for breakfast every morning.

There are many other features you can use, a water tracker, daily reports, and community support.

Once you have done a few you can see how much you are eating, how much you should be eating and how much of each macro nutrient you are getting. There is also a section where you can, and should, enter your current and goal weight. That way it will tell you your caloric requirement and be a little more accurate.

Another website that I recommend is http://whitetigerllc.com/Trainer.html.  Here you can find recipes, workout tips and many pages of great nutrition information.

A load of great information!!!!  Didn't I tell you!?