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So I've gone over to the dark side... My Fitness Pal. I do love how many foods they have in their database, and that I almost NEVER have to add anything! They also have so many more exercises that you can choose from, and I think they're more accurate. I also like how you set your calories and if you exercise, that you get more calories for that day - makes total sense, right? If you work out, you get more calories because you've burned more?! They also have the feature like facebook where you can enter your status/thoughts, and they have a blog feature that I'm using like a journal.
The part that is lacking is the buddies and challenges. If anyone of my buddies from here is on MFP, feel free to add me, I'm using BrandyRelaxing there too!
I'll still be here to intermittently journal, but will be doing my food/exercise over there!
My new plan!
Last week, I set my calorie goal per day to 1,600 and allowed two days where I had higher calories (although, didn't define "higher calories"). To lose 2 pounds per week, MFP suggests that I should eat 1,440 calories per day. I don't think I'm ready for that quiet yet.
So I'm going to do some calorie cycling... so for 5 days of the week, I'm going to do 1,540 calories per day, and then for 2 days do 1,940.
For the extra calories I'm consuming each day, and on my higher days, I'm going to make sure I burn at least 1,500 calories through purposeful exercise.
I'm really going to have to watch the empty calories I eat in a day. Right now, I can eat like 200 calories of chocolate or candy and it still is okay in my daily calories. So I think lowering my calories just a bit, will force me to be more conscious about what foods I choose to eat.
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Enjoy and good luck. Your haircut is cute.
10 Oct 11 by member: Helewis
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Do you know if MFP has a site you can access on a blackberry?
10 Oct 11 by member: pam-u-la
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Are you using it with a smartphone?
10 Oct 11 by member: Helewis
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I know they have an android app... my blackberry has work security on it, so I can't access, so I am just using the website.
10 Oct 11 by member: BrandyRelaxing
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Interesting. Dawn is using it too. Maybe you guys can hookup there.
10 Oct 11 by member: Helewis
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We have! Kat, Babs, Dawn, Bobbi, Pixi are all on there...
10 Oct 11 by member: BrandyRelaxing
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Pam, I access it on BB but it's through the browser so it's kinda clunky. The food/exercise diaries are accessible thru the free app tho. And Brandy, stop tellin my business. ;)
10 Oct 11 by member: kstubblefield
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...FWIW I haven't been seduced by the tools over there. I did enter one full day's worth of food to compare to here & it was roughly the same. I liked how it put stuff into your diary in the order you enter it, but you can force the sort order here by renaming your items, which I'm not sure you can do there. And I like how I can customize my exercise diary here to enter my total calorie burn for the day from my BMF. On MFP their calculation for sleeping/resting is hidden so you can't replace the total figure if you want to enter it manually. Kind of weird. I'm sticking with the tools here for the time being...I have a lot of history tied up in them so I'm not real motivated to switch. I'm a big fan of the message boards over there though, they are organized by topic & moderated. I'm afraid that is sorely lacking here.
10 Oct 11 by member: kstubblefield
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Hmmm I am going to give a week a whirl over there. I like the way it calculates exercise...maybe cause it is new its seems a bit confusing but we shall see! P.s. your new plan seems right on the money, good luck!!
10 Oct 11 by member: orchidannie
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I tried a bunch of different sites like MFP and, for me, this is the only site that has worked for me in the long haul. Yeah, sometimes you need to enter the food manually or update their database...but personally I prefer the way FS is set up.
That being said......if MFP works for ya do it! It's all about what makes this easier for you. I do hope that you come here occaisonally though.
10 Oct 11 by member: BekkaL85
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I'll still be here... I can't replace the buddies I've found here!! You guys are awesome, and that's the hard part!
10 Oct 11 by member: BrandyRelaxing
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