afernow's Journal, 14 February 2008

I don't believe you can. I tried to use the food journal once, but it was too much effort for me. Personally, I'll stick with my points list (that's not on here) for now. 

I just journal my food at the bottom of my daily journal. I come back and edit it whenever I have something to add to my total. It's so much easier than trying to navigate the food tracker on here that doesn't even have WW points anyway. 

Fatsecret have now added WW points values in the diet calendar - think it only appeared about Wednesday. But it shows up on the right side of the page as you enter foods. Currently though it doesn't appear to calculate half points (which I have mentioned to the FS team!!). I'm not sure which formula it's using, as by my UK Points Calculator, I've noticed that some of the points calculated by FS differ. But then I have had this for a number of years, so things may have changed slightly. So you may also like to keep checking your own points values using your normal method... just to double check that you have the right values! But I've found the diet calendar very useful and input all my foods, adding custom food entries for a lot of the food I eat, as they are UK products and the database is US. But in the box where I add the food name, I also add the points value at the end e.g. 1 slice Wholemeal Bread, medium slice -- 1pts. I've also added a custom food entry for TOTAL POINTS - then just put zero's in the calorie, fat, carb and protein boxes. But I update this each time I eat more food to keep a running total for the points.