Calling experienced people!

[lukek]

How do you go about tracking and starting your diet? Got the basics down

5000 calories 50/30/20 ratio

Now gathering nutritional info

Planning 2 different menu's, so I don't get bored eating same things

Gathering totals of each macro nutrient from daily menu to see if its consistent with my ratio

can anyone add to this?

Q's

1 What are some good websites/software to track diet? fitday.com is for losing weight looking for weight gain

2 Does anyone know of any good tracking templates regarding the things above?

3 Anyone know of any articles regarding energy/kcal?

[rose]

Link to good article in this post :grin:

Nutrition Data for looking up individual foods.

[lukek]

Thanks for the articles and a funny read in that thread. Not really looking for help about a diet, but how to plan and track a diet. If you know what I'm saying.

[rose]

Sure. Can you not tell fitday how many calories you want to eat? Just because it says it's a diet site doesn't mean you can't use it to track your food? I'd check but CBA signing up to it.

If/when I'm tracking I just look up individual foods and use a spreadsheet. I find you tend to get a feel for it quick so strict tracking isn't always required. To be honest most times I've just used paper.

Only a couple of menus might get boring pretty quick? You can always add more foods as you go though eh.

You'll probably get better answers tomorrow. Night!

[PTinCHCH]

man, im like an advocate for this site. lol.

best ever though.

follow your nose in here.

http://exrx.net/Nutrition.html

check out calculators too, they may be able to help you.