Calorie Counting 101

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punkykid

fortyloveiwin wrote: »

New to fitness pal, it is best to eat all of your calories allowed daily? I don't always use the total and wonder if that is causing me to loose slowly? Please help! Thx

Add more exercise = burn more.

iconsueg8614

Love this topic. I am going to try and weigh more my liquids and solids

bridgetlynn20

The more accurate you you are with logging everything the better the outcomes. I do not give my exercise calories back either. Thinking positive!

15822

It irks me so much when food packaging states calories "as prepared". For example, there was this pack of noodles that stated calories as per cooking instructions (so after adding water and boiling them) and then stated calories per 50 grams cooked, but not how many servings you get out of the packet. What if I prepared it differently or used it as an ingredient in another food?
Kidney beans and rice double can more than double in size when cooked, so logging the weight before cooking is not the way to go if the database assumed cooked ingredients.

Geekdoc3

MD agrees 100%. When I do these things I lose. When I guess, I don't. Like a checking account, but not as easy as dollars and cents! (Or Pounds, Pesos, Yuan...)

gibran30

so in regards to calorie counting. Can someone shed some light on if a calorie is a calorie is a calorie and does it make a difference. So say Person A eats 1400 calories a day and its mainly all good nutritious food. Then you take Person B who also only eats 1400 calories but they may have had a cookie and a few chips, etc in their calories. Are they each going to lose the same? YEs, i realize each person is different but does what you eat in the calories matter?

bjssnow

I think this calorie counter is too hard to use. I like the idea that we can scan bar codes because there are certain things that I eat often but the scanner does not always work😠

bjssnow

I just want to use this to accurately count my calories and to track my progress. I weigh 184.2. I would love to get to 160. I think that’s my goal for this year. I’m reasonably active at 75. I’m not going to run any marathons. But, I will try to get to 10000 steps per day. I’m basically healthy. I have a nice social life and enjoy dressing up and going out. I’m a size 14 but want to be a size TEN….

Lietchi

bjssnow wrote: »

I think this calorie counter is too hard to use. I like the idea that we can scan bar codes because there are certain things that I eat often but the scanner does not always work😠

It has a learning curve, for sure. But I don't find it too hard personally, I've been logging for 5 years now. (For me the barcode scanner is more of a hindrance than a help sometimes, with the number of wrong results.)
PS: if you eat some foods regularly, it's easier to use the frequent foods list than the scanner. Or copy meals from one day to another.

bjssnow

I need some ideas on healthy snacks that don’t involve too much salt or too much sugar….

Lietchi

Perhaps start your own topic(s) if you want to ask questions not related to this topic? This topic is about how to log accurately (and had been inactive since 2022).