Comments on: An Exposé Series: A Day in the Life of the American Working Professional, Part 4 http://livewell360.com/2008/09/an-expose-series-a-day-in-the-life-of-the-american-working-professional-part-4/ Inspiring you to live your best life through a line of fitness bags that makes fitness easy, more stylish, and more fun! Wed, 28 Jul 2010 23:10:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Leigh Peele http://livewell360.com/2008/09/an-expose-series-a-day-in-the-life-of-the-american-working-professional-part-4/comment-page-1/#comment-101 Leigh Peele Tue, 23 Sep 2008 21:29:27 +0000 http://livewell360.com/?p=246#comment-101 Very very excellent series Sheila. Very very excellent series Sheila.

]]> By: Sheila http://livewell360.com/2008/09/an-expose-series-a-day-in-the-life-of-the-american-working-professional-part-4/comment-page-1/#comment-99 Sheila Tue, 23 Sep 2008 13:38:29 +0000 http://livewell360.com/?p=246#comment-99 Missy, I agree, it can be a pain. When I am closely following intake (during a cut, etc) I usually layout 2-4 different meal plans and then just rotate them, so that I don't have to completely reinvent the wheel each day. This cuts down on a lot of hassle, and makes shopping and cooking easier for the week as well. as I can buy/cook in bulk. I tend to use the nutritional info on the bottle over what FitDay lists. So in those cases I would create a custom food with the nutritional info as listed on the bottle, as you mention doing. As for fruit and such, I would weigh whatever I eat, so this may require cutting it up before eating it so that you can exclude the core, pit, etc. I also tend to trust the nutritional info on Calorieking over FitDay - from my own personal experience, it seems to be more accurate (matches nutritional info on label more often). Thanks for the input Mark and Missy. Keep those thoughts coming! Sheila Missy,

I agree, it can be a pain. When I am closely following intake (during a cut, etc) I usually layout 2-4 different meal plans and then just rotate them, so that I don’t have to completely reinvent the wheel each day. This cuts down on a lot of hassle, and makes shopping and cooking easier for the week as well. as I can buy/cook in bulk.

I tend to use the nutritional info on the bottle over what FitDay lists. So in those cases I would create a custom food with the nutritional info as listed on the bottle, as you mention doing. As for fruit and such, I would weigh whatever I eat, so this may require cutting it up before eating it so that you can exclude the core, pit, etc. I also tend to trust the nutritional info on Calorieking over FitDay – from my own personal experience, it seems to be more accurate (matches nutritional info on label more often).

Thanks for the input Mark and Missy. Keep those thoughts coming!

Sheila

]]> By: Missy http://livewell360.com/2008/09/an-expose-series-a-day-in-the-life-of-the-american-working-professional-part-4/comment-page-1/#comment-98 Missy Mon, 22 Sep 2008 19:08:09 +0000 http://livewell360.com/?p=246#comment-98 It is a pain to weigh and track but the biggest problem to me is the variations in food values. Like fitday says there are calories in vinegar but my bottle says zero. Calorieking gives different calories for steamed shrimp than fitday for the same amount. And turkey breast? I just customize mine from my package but I can't help but wonder which is right. Even tuna on fitday, for 3 ounces, is 99 calories but is 90 on the label! Drives me nuts! Oh, and on fruit like an apple, do you weigh it , eat it, then after you eat it do you weigh the core/seeds of what you did not eat and subtract that from the original? I notice calorie king says their values are for the "raw edible portion". Well I don't eat the middle of the apple! Same with grapefruit - there are several red/pink ones to choose on fitday - some have higher calories. Which one to pick? And do you peel it then weigh it ????? I don't ask much do I? But see, it stirred questions!!!!! Thanks! It is a pain to weigh and track but the biggest problem to me is the variations in food values. Like fitday says there are calories in vinegar but my bottle says zero. Calorieking gives different calories for steamed shrimp than fitday for the same amount. And turkey breast? I just customize mine from my package but I can’t help but wonder which is right. Even tuna on fitday, for 3 ounces, is 99 calories but is 90 on the label! Drives me nuts! Oh, and on fruit like an apple, do you weigh it , eat it, then after you eat it do you weigh the core/seeds of what you did not eat and subtract that from the original? I notice calorie king says their values are for the “raw edible portion”. Well I don’t eat the middle of the apple! Same with grapefruit – there are several red/pink ones to choose on fitday – some have higher calories. Which one to pick? And do you peel it then weigh it ?????
I don’t ask much do I? But see, it stirred questions!!!!!
Thanks!

]]> By: Mark Salinas http://livewell360.com/2008/09/an-expose-series-a-day-in-the-life-of-the-american-working-professional-part-4/comment-page-1/#comment-95 Mark Salinas Mon, 22 Sep 2008 17:43:22 +0000 http://livewell360.com/?p=246#comment-95 Weighing food is allot of work but does eliminate much error. If one wants to achieve results more efficiently weighing the food is another step in the right direction. Nice post! Weighing food is allot of work but does eliminate much error. If one wants to achieve results more efficiently weighing the food is another step in the right direction. Nice post!

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