My DD has been using My Fitness Pal, and has encouraged me to use it. I now have the app on my iPhone and this is my second day of using it. I find it easy for the items I eat that are packaged and have nutrition facts readily available, but it's a pain in the rear for homemade stuff, and that's mostly what I eat. Still, it seems to be a good way to keep track not only of how much I'm eating but of the nutritional profile of what I'm eating. I appreciate the pie chart that gives me a nice visual of the percentage of carbs, fats and protein I have consumed. It's only as accurate as the information I put in, though, and that brings me back to the problem with entering nutrition information of my recipes. I don't usually follow recipes unless I'm baking, so this is going to be a royal challenge.
Lastly, there's the exercise. It's easy enough to log in minutes walked on my treadmill at a certain speed, but logging in calories burned walking upstairs isn't. They require you to enter the minutes, and I have no intention of noting how many total minutes I spend going up and down stairs in the course of a day. I know it's a lot. It would be a lot easier if they'd give you a rough guide of how many calories you burn going up a flight of stairs. Then all you'd have to do is remember how many times you walked up, not how many minutes you spent doing it. I mean really!
It will be interesting to see if I lose any weight. It has me eating only 1,200 calories per day, which at first glance seemed tough; but I couldn't eat that many calories yesterday. I came very close to 1,200 but got full before reaching that max.
