How do you track your calories/macros? weekly/daily or other?

xNoLaNx
xNoLaNx Posts: 1 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
I’m trying to gather a bit of information on how people track their calories/macros (ie, weekly/daily/monthly), what methods they are using to do so (existing apps/self made spreadsheets) and what difficulties you have found when it comes to using these methods to track. Here’s a very short survey that I would love to get some feedback.

https://forms.gle/rPwnfEGsUWE3k4xD9

Cheers.

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  • giancarlov1191
    giancarlov1191 Posts: 493 Member
    I track daily, working backwards from my calorie goal. Currently they are evenly split.
  • giancarlov1191
    giancarlov1191 Posts: 493 Member
    I use MFP
  • kshama2001
    kshama2001 Posts: 28,052 Member
    I use MFP and track daily.
  • Cahgetsfit
    Cahgetsfit Posts: 1,912 Member
    I track daily in terms of every day I log my food and have a set goal to hit.

    However, that being said, sometimes I will calorie cycle - where during the week I will eat less so that i have a bigger budget for weekend. I still track it every day, but then I go in and change the calories/macros goals for the days of extra food.

    I don't use the MFP method, I use TDEE because eating back calories breaks my macros calculations and is just too complicated - I prefer to know exactly how many calories I can eat per day and just enter all exercise as "1 calorie burnt"

    My macros are usually 2.2P per kilo bodyweight (sometimes slightly more), roughly 0.8-1F per kilo bodyweight and the rest is filled with carbs. So if i'm on poverty calories, my carbs are lowish (maybe 100 Carbs per day), but if I'm on a decent caloric budget, my carbs can go as high as 300. That all depends on if I'm cutting, bulking or maintaining.
  • Hannahwalksfar
    Hannahwalksfar Posts: 572 Member
    Track daily using mfp
  • MarisaMSimon
    MarisaMSimon Posts: 277 Member
    I use MyFitnessPal daily, but I track my calories as weekly. I’ve been able to lose 39 pounds with 39 more to go doing it this way!
  • amusedmonkey
    amusedmonkey Posts: 10,330 Member
    I track daily using cronometer, but average my calories over a month.
  • hixa30
    hixa30 Posts: 274 Member
    MFP app uses too much data for its pretty pictures, I use Lifesum.
  • GaleHawkins
    GaleHawkins Posts: 8,159 Member
    xNoLaNx wrote: »
    I’m trying to gather a bit of information on how people track their calories/macros (ie, weekly/daily/monthly), what methods they are using to do so (existing apps/self made spreadsheets) and what difficulties you have found when it comes to using these methods to track. Here’s a very short survey that I would love to get some feedback.

    https://forms.gle/rPwnfEGsUWE3k4xD9

    Cheers.

    @xNoLaNx typically I weigh twice each morning since that's the only acturate way to track CICO results and gauge my level of hydration in my case. My only goal is pain management and over the past 5 years I have learned when my pain levels become noticable I have been eating more than 50 grams of carbs daily..

    In short I wanted to manage my pain without giving thought to calories back in 2014 when health was crashing so fast at the age of 63. With the support of the MFP supporting members over the past 5 years I learned how to make Low Carb High Fat Way Of Eating give me back my health without ever going hungry..

    While I had no weight loss plan without thought I went on to lose 50 pounds the first year on this WOE and have maintained that 50 pound weight loss for 4 years now.

    Today is my annual fasting lab day so I need to go before I do get hungry.. :)

    It looks like you found a WOE that works well for you. Keep up the great success.

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