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Fitness pal vs MyPlate.gov

CecilBGreen
CecilBGreen
I just joined fitness pal but am also looking at the USDA site called myplate (NOT the live strong one) Has anyone tried either of these? I do find that food diaries help me if I keep it up.
deleted_user
deleted_user
I have an app on my phone (broken now) and its a calorie type counter and a step counter. I plan to try it when I get my phone back. I have never used a food diary and I want to try it
gizzy2010
gizzy2010
I use to use food diaries all of the time years ago. They really help focus or keep focus on the positive ways of eating and also helps you stay positive about your food choices. I in the past developed an eating disorder at age 8 as a result of all that was dealt out at my dinner table from my dad. I don't have anorexia or bulimia. But for years I felt like a Holocaust survivor, to the point that in the shower two years ago was in shower, and I then realized that "oh my God there is a soul living in this skeleton of all bones." Ya, my dad was something else. So food has always been my enemy. I starved myself, out of desperation I guess, not sure why I did that. I do not do that anymore. I love my body today. I'm keeping a fluctuating weight between 150-160. I'm doing really well.
gizzy2010
gizzy2010
I have an update, but do not know if this is the correct place to write it. So here it goes!! Cecil, I am so sorry if it accidentally ends up someplace on your... but this is the only way I can learn this so that I can be here.

My weight has dropped immensely, only due to going from being sick in 2013 from psych meds I believe to having no appetite at all ever since March and if I can remember correctly I am now at 137 and literally have to make myself eat otherwise I will forget to because I don't get hungry or feel full either and have a real hard time walking and the nurse from the clinic had recommended that I go on Myplate.gov back in February or March and it would be good for me because I really do not want to re-gain all of my weight back to where I was in 2007 which was 300, and after having worked so hard back then on losing all of that I need to watch what I can eat and also walk.

Thanks Cecil for the great thread! I hope this finds you in the right place!
divegirl
divegirl
the USDA supertracker and my plate is what most of the other sites use as there info database. This is according to the nutrition classes I am taking.