Critique my diary?

iamstaceywood
iamstaceywood Posts: 383 Member
edited November 18 in Health and Weight Loss
OK. So, i'm a mom to an 18 month old girl and a doggy. I work mainly weekend nights as an Uber driver, I have a fairly sedentary lifestyle, lots of cleaning and cooking but, not a whole lot of miles logged. I try to go for a daily walk but, its probably more like 5x a week. Usually just about 2 miles. I've been fairly fit before but, right now am just a blob. I'm wanting to start running but, need to get a better stroller before i can start c25k again. So......... i'm a good sport. Tell me what you think?

Oh, I weigh about 270, 5'5" tall. :)

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  • Gska17
    Gska17 Posts: 752 Member
    Warning: I'm not a professional diary analyzer. :)

    I went back about a week and it appears as if you're weighing most things which is good (steak and chicken, for example). I'd also weigh your dense veggies (potatoes). Those can be surprising.

    Looks well balanced too with a variety of veggies.
  • StaciMarie1974
    StaciMarie1974 Posts: 4,138 Member
    I'd suggest to be careful of generic entries. Sometimes its the best you can do, to find something that sounds similar to what you ate and approximate. But when you can, eat food that you can enter the actual information.

    Use a food scale and enter by weight, not cups.

    A general recommendation: identify if you have any nutrition problem areas. For me, this would be veggies. If I didn't make the effort I would have nearly enough veggies or variety of veggies. So its something I focus on. We all have weak areas when it comes to nutrition.

  • RodaRose
    RodaRose Posts: 9,562 Member
    It looks pretty good. You are getting enough fat. Some days you could have a little more fiber/ low cal veggies. :)
  • iamstaceywood
    iamstaceywood Posts: 383 Member
    Good points! I do use a food scale for just about everything. Most of the stuff you see in cups is the steamey veggies from the microwave bag and i do actually weigh them, i just log them as a serving, whatever that happens to be. The things that annoy me the most are when we get chinese take out (which i shouldn't eat at all but, on days that are crazy with stuff to do, its easy and i can eat pretty well.) and i can't accurately log. So, on those days i just make the best guestimation i can.
  • MaggotPig
    MaggotPig Posts: 89 Member
    Are you logging your activity twice? You're logging walking as an activity and then there's a fitbit entry too?
  • Gska17
    Gska17 Posts: 752 Member
    iamstaceywood wrote: »
    I do use a food scale for just about everything. Most of the stuff you see in cups is the steamey veggies from the microwave bag and i do actually weigh them, i just log them as a serving, whatever that happens to be.

    I do the same. My diary would read, "1 cup Cheerios" when I actually weighed them. :)
  • forgtmenot
    forgtmenot Posts: 860 Member
    GingerSka wrote: »
    iamstaceywood wrote: »
    I do use a food scale for just about everything. Most of the stuff you see in cups is the steamey veggies from the microwave bag and i do actually weigh them, i just log them as a serving, whatever that happens to be.

    I do the same. My diary would read, "1 cup Cheerios" when I actually weighed them. :)

    I do the same, because I've found some entries on mfp don't have a gram option. At least not on the mobile app. I haven't checked the regular site to see if I can enter grams manually on foods where it doesn't show as an option.
  • StaciMarie1974
    StaciMarie1974 Posts: 4,138 Member
    That also bugs me about using the scanner - and so I understand about weighing, entering in servings, and having the log show cups!

  • StaciMarie1974
    StaciMarie1974 Posts: 4,138 Member
    I'm guessing you're using MapMyWalk or something similar? If so, then it should NOT be double counting your efforts. The way it works is MFP only counts one activity for a block of time. So if you log a MapMyWalk walk from 1:00-1:40pm, for that time, MFP uses the walk info and ignores the Fitbit data for that period of time. On the other hand, for me, MapMyWalk seemed high on its calorie allowance. If you it gives you too much, just be aware and leave some 'on the table'.
  • iamstaceywood
    iamstaceywood Posts: 383 Member
    Yeah, I use map my fitness and fit bit but, it dissent double enter. And I rarely eat back those calories.
  • editorgrrl
    editorgrrl Posts: 7,060 Member
    iamstaceywood wrote: »
    Yeah, I use map my fitness and fit bit but, it dissent double enter. And I rarely eat back those calories.

    If you eat back your Fitbit adjustments, you're eating TDEE minus deficit.

    You can learn more in the Fitbit Users group: http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/group/1290-fitbit-users
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