arkansas kel's Journal, 06 April 2015

Welcome to Fat Secret !!!! and the journey WITH supportive people :) 

welcome and I am working on losing weight also 

I'm in test driving mode. WE are converting to low carb for husband's sake in a few weeks. I'm used to MFP but they don't do net carbs. Somebody recommended fatsecret - I'm hopeful. My initial starting weight was 247 - I lost down to 222 with LCHF then lost another 12 with low calorie. Apparently both work for me! Then stopped (stress, work, time) and gained back to 222. Husband is diabetic and struggling - he does awesome on LCHF so we are returning to our old faithful for his sake. He's on board I'm just the "pathfinder."  

Does it only show kcal on the main tracker? When we do LCHF I don't usually bother with kcal - do you guys? 

OK, every time I go in to fix it to net carbs it says my email is invalid. I fix my email and it puts all the other statistics back in. rrrrrrg. 

If you can try it from another computer, that solved it for me. 

I got it. Not sure how. LOL Now playing with recipes and meal planning. Is there a way to change the main ticker to net carbs? The one at the top or do you always have to go into your food log to see the net carbs? 

I always go to the diary to look, I haven't found another way. It takes a bit to mess around to get it the way that works best for you.  

I am relatively new to LCHF only a couple months but it works great for me(when there aren't any Easter rabbits around lol). Welcome! 

If you go to My settings on the right, you can change which stats you see on your main page 

I've managed to get it to say what I want on the food log, but on the banner at the top it still says kcal. ugh. I think I can live with that one if I have to LOL. Just seems like it's pushing calorie counting. Will be frustrating for husband when he sets his profile up. He will want it to say what he counts. I can live with it. He will have to LOL. (poor baby smirk)  

Sorry, I think I'm going with the Atkins app. :( 

I have the same problems. Fatsecret doesn't like you to make changes from a mobile device. You need a computer. I started having problems last fall and finally realised zed that's when my laptop got sick.