Looking for a Good Calorie Calculator

[Christine]

I've been trying to get a grip on how many calories I'm eating a day. I've gone to Fitday and I find it a total pain in the butt. For instance, most of the foods I eat are not in their (Barbara's Puffins Cereal, Kashi Go-Lean waffles, for example). If I try to add them as a "custom food" by using the nutritional information on the box, I end up getting error messages from Fitday that the calorie counts are wrong. Basically, I'm finding Fitday to be too cumbersome. Is there anything better out there?

 

[Mom of Sleepy Bashful and BabyDoc]

Oh, Christine.......I don't know what could be wrong...

I use fitday.com all of the time and I have literally put in over 100 custom foods and never had a problem.

Are you inputing the info exactly like on the label including serving size?? For example:

Apple Juice:

8 oz.
Calories: 120
Total Fat: 0
Cholesterol: 0
Sodium: 0mg
Potassium: 240 mg
Total carb: 29
Protein: 0
Alchohol: 0

Then press "save custom food".

There might be a better site to use, I don't know. but I love fitday. It really helps me keep track.

Hope this helps. Let me know.

 

[Zoesmama03]

Weight Watchers has a great one but it cost $14.95 a month(or atleast it did 4 years ago) it had most everything I ate in it.

 

[Christine]

Oh, Christine.......I don't know what could be wrong...

I use fitday.com all of the time and I have literally put in over 100 custom foods and never had a problem.

Are you inputing the info exactly like on the label including serving size?? For example:

Apple Juice:

8 oz.
Calories: 120
Total Fat: 0
Cholesterol: 0
Sodium: 0mg
Potassium: 240 mg
Total carb: 29
Protein: 0
Alchohol: 0

Then press "save custom food".

There might be a better site to use, I don't know. but I love fitday. It really helps me keep track.

Hope this helps. Let me know.

Well, I *played* with it some more. I think what messed me up is that my Puffins cereal is for a 3/4 cup serving. When I put the 3/4 in, it took it as 3 cups. When I put .75 in, I got some error message. I tried the .75 again last night and it worked. I added a few other things in and they worked fine. I guess I'll keep working with it.

 

[Mom of Sleepy Bashful and BabyDoc]

Oh, good! Yeah, if anything is going to mess it up, it will be something with the serving size. Once I was inputting something, some liquid, I can't remember, and I wanted a tablespoon. Well, it didn't give tablespoon as an option. The smallest option was a cup. So I had to figure.......16 tablespoons to a cup (I think that is what it is)...so 1 divided by 16 is .0625 of a cup. just about drove me nuts, but it worked.

The good news is, once you've got it in there, it's there to stay.