Paleo Diet and Paleolithic Diet Questions & Answers

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I'm not interested in tracking calories but tracking my overall nutritional intake including moods to understand how my nutrition is impacting my overall health and mental health too. I want to get all meta and sheyat :) I'm doing this on a Google doc but do any of you have a suggestion for a tool that you are currently using or have used?

flag	asked May 10 2011 at 22:51 baconbitch

JakeA · Answer 1 · 2011-05-10 23:29:26Z UTC

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Fitday does a good job of tracking both nutrients and calories. The website gives you what % of RDA you are gettin of a large amount of micronutrients.

answered May 10 2011 at 23:29

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	Fitday also has a journal page you can choose your mood from! – sherpamelissa May 11 2011 at 2:19
	THanks everyone so far! Nothing quite fits my needs yet :( Funny how so many of them are very clunky. I also really wish there was something that wasn't about losing weight but maintaining health and wellness. Ah well. – baconbitch May 11 2011 at 17:33

Ambimorph · Answer 2 · 2011-05-10 23:47:05Z UTC

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For moods, I recommend tracking total carbohydrates, just because it makes such a huge difference for me. I also use fitday, but it's not necessarily complete.

answered May 10 2011 at 23:47

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	I'm with you. Although I'm way past the whole fat-adapting phases of initial carbohydrate-restriction I will still admit that on my higher carb meals around lifting I have a better general mental and emotional state. – ben61820 May 11 2011 at 0:32
	Heh. That's funny. For me, the lower I go in carbs, the better my mood. At ZC, I'm now off all antidepressants, which is not remotely the case at VLC. – Ambimorph May 11 2011 at 11:36

g. · Answer 3 · 2011-05-11 01:16:47Z UTC

I've been using Cron-O-Meter a bit. It has pretty complete nutritional info, and a notes section, which is useful. I think the interface kind of sucks though, it's clunky, and the food listings are not intuitive, or very complete, imo. It is a downloadable program, which I find has both pros and cons. I've dabbled with some other trackers, but mostly the data breakdown doesn't cut it.

Anyone have an iphone app they love?

gilliebean · Answer 4 · 2011-05-11 01:26:26Z UTC

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I like using MyNetDiary. Tracks nutrients, weight, exercise and I think you can add mood notes.

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Hisoka · Answer 5 · 2012-02-29 15:17:41Z UTC

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Check out SlimKicker.com. They have your typical calorie tracker but also challenges related to emotional mastery where you can track/journal your daily moods.

answered Feb 29 2012 at 15:17

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Joy · Answer 6 · 2012-02-29 15:29:58Z UTC

I use sparkpeople.com. I used to use fitday.com. I like spark people because it also has sparkrecipes.com where I can put in a recipe I made and get the nutritional info and it is available for me to track. Before I knew about sparkpeople I was putting the recipe into sparkrecipes and then transferring the nutritional info into a custom food at fitday. Tracking at sparkpeople makes things easier. Also, although it is very focused on weight loss, there is a big communtiy there and I am already creating relationships with other people. I find this motivating. sparkpeople adds up the calories, but everything does. Just try to ignore the calories if you don't care.

Tracking. But not calories

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