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Tracking Vitamins and Supplements

danielleshepherd82
danielleshepherd82 Posts: 1 Member
edited November 2024 in Food and Nutrition
I'm a person with Hashimotos Thyroiditis, I take about 10 to 15 different supplements a day and would love to track them using myfitnesspal...I wish they would add that functionality. Is anyone else in this situation?

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  • livingleanlivingclean
    livingleanlivingclean Posts: 11,751 Member
    edited October 2017
    You can add supplements - you may have to add them to the database yourself if you can't find entries. You are unlikely to be able to track all micronutrients as only a few are available on food labels. Adding them would enable you to track taking them or not if that's what you want to be able to do
  • SaleenGirl305
    SaleenGirl305 Posts: 137 Member
    Also, in the diary settings, you can use 'customize meal names' to add a category for vitamins. That way you can track them separately from breakfast-lunch-dinner.
  • Tacklewasher
    Tacklewasher Posts: 7,122 Member
    SaleenGirl305 wrote: »
    Also, in the diary settings, you can use 'customize meal names' to add a category for vitamins. That way you can track them separately from breakfast-lunch-dinner.

    This is what I've done. I don't take much, but need it as a reminder to take them more than tracking them.
  • Ready2Rock206
    Ready2Rock206 Posts: 9,487 Member
    I save all mine as a recipe called "Daily Vitamins" that way I can just enter them all at once. If I ever switch anything I just go in and edit my recipe. Easy peasy.
  • Anabirgite
    Anabirgite Posts: 538 Member
    I added an additional meal entitled “supplements” to keep track of the vitamins and medications I take. This has worked well for me and my doctor to keep track. I also note how I am doing in the diary. Hope this helps.
  • Alatariel75
    Alatariel75 Posts: 18,786 Member
    Ready2Rock206 wrote: »
    I save all mine as a recipe called "Daily Vitamins" that way I can just enter them all at once. If I ever switch anything I just go in and edit my recipe. Easy peasy.

    I have mine saved as a meal so I can chop and change it more easily, but yup - makes it easy.
  • BruinsGal_91
    BruinsGal_91 Posts: 1,400 Member
    Tacklewasher wrote: »
    SaleenGirl305 wrote: »
    Also, in the diary settings, you can use 'customize meal names' to add a category for vitamins. That way you can track them separately from breakfast-lunch-dinner.

    This is what I've done. I don't take much, but need it as a reminder to take them more than tracking them.

    Yep, this is what I've done.
    Ready2Rock206 wrote: »
    I save all mine as a recipe called "Daily Vitamins" that way I can just enter them all at once. If I ever switch anything I just go in and edit my recipe. Easy peasy.

    Done this too.

    Makes things much easier to log and remember.
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