Looking for a good nutrition app

I've finished 6 months on the well known one N***. (I don't want to be searchable!!)

I'm not continuing with it. I did manage to lose 6 pounds but didn't love it. The food recording was easy enough but I didn't like the simplistic splitting of food into green, yellow and red groups just based on calorie density instead of on actual nutrition value. If you want to know how much protein or some such that you ate in a day you had to click through two extra levels individually for each food of each meal and then record and add up the amount the old fashioned way, pencil and paper. Fairly ridiculous because they have that information in their data base but do nothing to integrate it in an easily accessed way. Plus I got tired of all the pop psychology.

So, I'm looking for something that focuses on actual nutrition guidelines and at the end of the day will automatically tell me things like "you ate 13 grams of protein today and you are supposed to get 40-60 grams so you need to step it up and here are some good food choices". And still be really easy to use and include weight tracking.

Any such thing exist?

3 years ago

LJP

Veteran

Well, MyFitnessPal will do that if you preload your macro and caloric requirements/targets . Not sure it will suggest food choices to meet any shortfalls though - but those lists are readily available and we all know this stuff anyways , right ?

Peri

Hah...thanks for the assumption that I'm that smart but food-cooking-nutrition is a major weak link in my skill set! I've worked semi-second shift hours for most of my adult life so dinner has been whatever I can scrounge up fastest at 8PM for an 8:30 dinner. Add in an easy husband and no kids and the fact that I just don't like it...nope, not good at food.

So okay, forget the suggest foods part. I'll check out that one and see if it just does the thinking for me part I'm looking for.

Yeah, and I apologize if that sounded snarky. I didn't mean it to be. I just figure most people have absorbed the basics of nutrition and what macros are and how to count them ....because it lives in my head 24hours a day, lol. There are myriad lists available through a quick google search that will show which foods are say highest in protein , or fibre, or vitamin d or whatever you are interested in. I'm not the best cook either, and don't really love it, but I am obsessed with the science of nutrition.

Jenn

(website)

I use MyFitnessPal too, and have for years. I don’t have the paid version, but with a subscription it supposedly tells you which foods in your current diet are highest in various nutrients and macros, which could help.

Helena

The Lose It app does macros as well, it might just be on the paid version though. It also (over time) gives you trends in your own eating, but only in relation to calories (i.e. one of mine was that I stayed within my calories better when I ate cereal for breakfast rather than eggs). Similar to my fitness pal in that it doesn't recommend foods per se though.

UmmLila (Lisa)

I am fine on eating healthy and nutritious but I would love it if there was an app where you could take a photo of every thing you consume (eat or drink) and the AI would just figure out its calories. I want something to notify me when I reach a certain number of calories for the day … the way an Apple watch tells you when you reached an exercise goal.

I tried calorie mama but it didn’t live up.

Lisa - same here. I know how to eat, but the constant figuring out of calories and entering it into an app is enough to make me want to stop living . Honestly! Taking a photo is a great idea. Although I laugh when my apple watch announces I've closed my exercise ring for the day - midway through a hike or something .

Dottie

Active Member

I like the Cronometer app. You can add foods to your day by taking a photo of the barcode and indicating how much you ate. It calculates calories, carbs, protein, fat grams and %. It also gives you totals (and %) of the fiber/vitamins/minerals etc you've eaten over the course of the day. It doesn't give any guidance though or what you could have done better, although that may occur in the paid version which I do not use.

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