Did you know you can track and create recipes and their nutritional value?
One of the hard things about keeping to a reduced calorie diet when using a mobile calorie counter can be figuring out the calorie content of home cooked meals. When a meal doesn’t come from a package or a restaurant and is created at home with creativity and actual ingredients, figuring out how many calories in each serving can seem almost impossible. Instead of guessing at the calorie content of mom’s spaghetti, you can use the recipe creator in your journal to calculate exactly how many calories are in each serving.
Using the recipe tool in your mobile food diary can be quite simple, but it does require knowing how much of each thing you put into the meal. If you are the type of cook that adds a pinch of this or a dab of that to your dishes, it’s a good idea to measure your pinches and dollops at least once. You can weigh or measure the ingredients that usually get tossed into a dish throughout the process to come up with an accurate nutrient content for your journal. All you have to do is tell the journal how much of each ingredient is added and it will tell you the calories for the whole meal as well as for each serving.
Recipes that are created with your mobile food journal can be stored for use later, meaning that once you have measured the ingredients in mom’s spaghetti, you won’t need to do it again. You can even name the dish mom’s spaghetti so you always know which recipe to choose when adding meals to your diary. When taking servings of dishes cooked at home, you should always use a measuring device, as it’s very easy to underestimate how much food you have put on your plate.
Creating recipes with your mobile food tracker is easy and can be quite fun. You can also take your favorite dishes and use the database to find healthy substitutions for fat or calorie heavy ingredients. The recipe maker can be a really fun way to experiment with different dishes in the kitchen and at the same time you can lighten them up a bit so that you can still enjoy your favorites without all of the calories.
Weight Loss Plateaus and Your Food Tracker
A plateau can be especially demoralizing because it involves a slow down or stop of weight loss even when you are continuing to keep to your calorie and exercise goals.
An Exercise Tracker Works To Keep Your Weight Loss on Track
By adding in exercise to burn more calories, you can speed up your rate of weight loss and control how much weight you lose over time.
Things You Can Do To Successfully Meet the Calorie Goals in a Mobile Calorie Counter
It’s important to have strategies in place to deal with the challenges that you may face when you are trying to successfully stick to a reduced calorie diet.
