Originally Posted by
bblair
I DL today and we'll see how it goes.
Yesterday for example, my suggested protein was 102g, which is 1.6 gm/Kg and the app says it is 88%. My first thoughts was that it was a pretty low protein day, but I guess not as bad as I thought. The app seems pretty easy to use (free version) so I plan to track for a week and see how that tracks before I buy any suppliments.
When I "did the work", ie meticulously logging everything, sometimes saving new foods by entering the data from the label, or my own usual recipes (makes it shorter to just enter 200ml of soup, instead of typing the same list of ingredients every day), I was impressed by the results, how deep you can go to monitor so many aspects of your diet...
Of course you don't need to meet 100% of every need/nutriment every day, you can compensate a few days later, but if you notice some lacks you can then select foods that provide more of the elements you need for the next day (even if you need to search on the web "food rich in iron/selenium/vit. B" whatever), and that also helps to eat with more variety, which apparently is often the key to health.