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I came across a website that is free to use and it has nutritional information for 1000's of food items.
My favorite part is I can select from their items EXACTLY what I eat in a day and it will tell me how many calories I ate, and the protein/carb/fat ratio as well. By knowing this information, you can adjust your calorie intake accordingly to gain, lose, or maintain your current weight.
If some of the calories you consume in a day come from....say...supplements...you can add your own foods to the list of what you ate. Have your tub of protein with you and just fill in the blanks on the website (calories, fat, sat fat, cholest, protein, vitamins, etc...there is room to upload all of that). And if you aren't happy with their selection of brown rice, chicken, oatmeal, WHATEVER, you can go crazy and take the exact brands you have at home and just plug those numbers into the website. Talk about accurate.
A few other things I discovered on the site: There is a page to enter your activity level. It has everything from biking and running, to boxing (you can specify punching bag, sparring, or actual fighting), to sexual activity (vigorous, moderate, low level) then you enter the time you did these things and it will tell you the approx calories you burned.
It also has reports you can look at. After you enter the food items you eat, you can go to reports and see where you are compared to your daily vitamin and mineral requirements, protein, carbs, fat...whatever you want to look at. You can enter your own personal goals, like if you're going for 1gram of protein per pound of body weight...you can enter that as your goal and after you enter your foods for the day it will tell you where you are at compared to your goal.
This site is really amazing and has just about everything covered.
Again, it is free to sign up (much like signing up for a free email account, or Sherdog).
www.fitday.com
Enjoy :icon_chee
edit: I took some screens for you guys. If you can't really see them, just save them and zoom in. Have a look:
http://img104.imageshack.us/img104/6479/fitday0zc.jpg
http://www2.filehost.to/files/2006-05-17_01/050739_fitday2.jpg
http://www2.filehost.to/files/2006-05-17_01/050807_fitday3.jpg
My favorite part is I can select from their items EXACTLY what I eat in a day and it will tell me how many calories I ate, and the protein/carb/fat ratio as well. By knowing this information, you can adjust your calorie intake accordingly to gain, lose, or maintain your current weight.
If some of the calories you consume in a day come from....say...supplements...you can add your own foods to the list of what you ate. Have your tub of protein with you and just fill in the blanks on the website (calories, fat, sat fat, cholest, protein, vitamins, etc...there is room to upload all of that). And if you aren't happy with their selection of brown rice, chicken, oatmeal, WHATEVER, you can go crazy and take the exact brands you have at home and just plug those numbers into the website. Talk about accurate.
A few other things I discovered on the site: There is a page to enter your activity level. It has everything from biking and running, to boxing (you can specify punching bag, sparring, or actual fighting), to sexual activity (vigorous, moderate, low level) then you enter the time you did these things and it will tell you the approx calories you burned.
It also has reports you can look at. After you enter the food items you eat, you can go to reports and see where you are compared to your daily vitamin and mineral requirements, protein, carbs, fat...whatever you want to look at. You can enter your own personal goals, like if you're going for 1gram of protein per pound of body weight...you can enter that as your goal and after you enter your foods for the day it will tell you where you are at compared to your goal.
This site is really amazing and has just about everything covered.
Again, it is free to sign up (much like signing up for a free email account, or Sherdog).
www.fitday.com
Enjoy :icon_chee
edit: I took some screens for you guys. If you can't really see them, just save them and zoom in. Have a look:
http://img104.imageshack.us/img104/6479/fitday0zc.jpg
http://www2.filehost.to/files/2006-05-17_01/050739_fitday2.jpg
http://www2.filehost.to/files/2006-05-17_01/050807_fitday3.jpg
