What nutrients do you track in your diary?

ScottFree_66
ScottFree_66 Posts: 200
edited December 2024 in Health and Weight Loss
MFP allows you to pick 5 different nutrients to track on your diary. What do you track and why

choices are:

fat, saturated fat, plyunsaturated fat, monounsaturated fat, trans fat, cholesterol, sodium, patassium, carbohydrates, fiber, sugar, protein, viatmin a, viatamin c, calcium, iron


I have calories (default), sodium, sugar, protein, fiber and potassium.


I mostly care about the sodium and potassium as part of following the dash diet plan. I have high blood pressure, and cardiologist recomended the dash diet.

Calories are also important, but I've found that if I stay under my sodium goal, I'm usually at my calorie goal. Salt hides in some of darndest places.

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  • kurenaikumo
    kurenaikumo Posts: 271 Member
    Vitamin A and C were default, I left those. I added Iron and Calcium- history of anemia, family history of osteoperosis.

    Oh and sodium, because you retain water if you eat too much of it!
  • Jacwhite22
    Jacwhite22 Posts: 7,010 Member
    I track protein....
  • RunTLS
    RunTLS Posts: 55 Member
    Calories, Carbs, Fat, and Protein I think. I'm pretty sure they were standard when I started.
  • JaceyMarieS
    JaceyMarieS Posts: 692 Member
    calories - of course
    carbs - I'm diabetic
    fiber - helps slow down the conversion of carbs to glucose
    protein and fat - because I've got to replace the carbs with something

    If I had one more, I'd probably track sodium, but I no longer eat many processed food and do not have high blood pressure
  • susannamarie
    susannamarie Posts: 2,148 Member
    calories, carbs, protein, fat, fiber, potassium.

    I get muscle cramps when the potassium's low, so I'm trying to not let it get that low. Keeping the potassium high also forces me to eat vegetables :P
  • ElizaRoche
    ElizaRoche Posts: 2,005 Member
    calories, proteins and sodium
  • schninie82
    schninie82 Posts: 502 Member
    Calories - default
    Fat
    Sat Fat
    Carbs
    Protein

    Is used to track sugar, but I'm always over as I eat lots of fruits and I used to track sodium but I don't eat many takeaways anymore so I rarely go over it. I have MFP as an app on my iPhone so I can see all of the nutrients anyways...
  • avafrisbee
    avafrisbee Posts: 234 Member
    calories, carbs, protein, fat, fiber, sodium.
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