Add Fiber to Food Diary

ALinFL

There's plenty of room on the Food Diary for a Fiber column. Being able to calculate Net Carbs is very important. Fiber prevents spikes in blood sugar, helps you feel full longer and promotes healthier bowel movements. All nutrition labels show the fiber count. Tallying only Carbohydrates just isn't all that important to your overall health.

As for how to spell it, that's a challenge. Some users are British and spell it Fibre. I'd guess more use the American spelling, Fiber.

MichelleGiancaterino

I want this too!!

velrist

I would like this too, it's even more important these days with the rise in colon cancer figures.

WillVanKeulen

That's odd... I already see a Fiber value in each food entry/database entry (though it is easier to see it in the app vs the website interface). You can also change one of your five Nutrients Tracked in the Diary Settings to be Fiber (personally, I changed Sodium to Fiber). I also see a Net Carbs column next to Fiber in the app, but I think that might be locked behind a Premium subscription.

Ronnie_happy2ranch

As @WillVanKeulen stated, you can change your nutrients to what you want them to be in your settings. I have Fiber in my queue but mainly use the web version versus the app. I have not yet switched to the new Diary, however, so maybe that is different?

AnnPT77

In the phone/tablet app, it's easy to see the fiber total in the Nutrition page, Nutrients tab. It's also available in web MFP in the Reports tab, or in the Full Report link at the bottom of the food diary page.

If you have premium MFP, you can turn on a net carbs setting - or could, last I knew, since I don't care how many carbs I eat, so I don't use it. That will subtract fiber carbs from total carbs to show net carbs.

On the web side, I dropped the sugar column in my diary and replaced it with fiber. (I don't care how much sugar I eat, either. I focus on hitting my protein goal as a minimum, my fats goal as a minimum, and getting the 400-800g+ of veggies/fruits I shoot for each day. If I accomplish that, I'm getting plenty of fiber, and not getting excessive added sugar, though I may get more than the goal amount of total sugar. Since I've been maintaining a healthy weight for close to a decade since loss, and my blood tests/blood pressure are solidly in the healthy zone, I'm not worried. For me, it works better to focus on getting the things I need into my eating, and managing calories. When I do that, I don't need to worry about getting "bad things" out of my eating; it happens well enough automagically.)

Besides, sugar's already implicitly included in carb totals, and many people who reduce carbs will tell you carbs just turn into sugar in your body anyway (😆), so it's easy for me to ignore both carbs and sugar. If I were diabetic or insulin resistant, it might be more of a concern, but even there my understanding is that the needful thing is managing carb intake, not wiping it out altogether. YMMV, though.