Do either of you have any recommendations for a diet/calorie tracker, one that also allows you to measure your weight and belly?
I recently completed the NHS 12-week app which gave me a lot more accountability in my diet. I know it's not a permanent solution but I beat obesity on it by losing 6.6kg and it was easy enough that I stuck it out and didn't go mental with a massive deficit. Now I'm starting to look like Coco the Clown in my clothes and won't die of some stupid disease in my 50s.
Still, there's a lot of annoying features on the app like how awkward it is to input new food items into your library and someone at the NHS decided you should get motivational messages from 'real' people so everyday I enter my scores and get some fat cunt smiling at me. It may sound like an overreaction but everyday for the last 12 weeks I've had to look at a small selection of images of overweight/obese people smiling at me no matter what score I enter.
myfitnesspal and Garmin connect along with a home-made spreadsheet do the trick for me. 25kg since July, now merely overweight, another 10kg to go.
(I paid for MFP, to get the barcode scanning thing to work properly, but even with that (I mostly cook for myself rather than eating out), I find myself working from a smaller set of ingredients, partly because lardy stuff is out, and partly because I CBA to enter new foods. Breakfast is boring but adequate.
>>6190 note that if you're a habitual reduced-sticker-buyer, barcodes stop working in a frustrating way.
But MFP has been pretty good for me. I can't remember quite what made me give them money, but I don't regret it. Obsessive calorie counting is the only way I can get this thing done, I'm just inept at knowing what's got a fuckload of calories and what hasn't, and what a portion is (or should be).
Off to the USA for a fortnight tomorrow. It's going to fuck me up, but hey ho.
also, my food shopping bill easily dropped enough to fund the app purchase, so I don't regret it at all.
I do miss beer, and the food that beer made eating look like a good idea, especially late at night. One definite downside to losing weight is that I need more sleep. Previously, 5 hours was fine, but now a solid 7 or I feel like shit. I used to be ok with the occasional 3 if work needed it, but that's right out. Probably an acceptable tradeoff, but annoying nonetheless.
Rambling about weight loss, that's another annoying side effect, but tough.
I looked into MFP and, well, I knew something was off when I went to create an account and was confronted with two compulsory check-lists on processing sensitive data including bringing it to US jurisdiction and the usual mealy-mouthed answer in the explanation that you can withdraw consent at any time.
I don't remember the NHS app requiring this level of acceptance so the more I'm digging into it the worse it's starting to look. Are you lot isolating the app?
- Chronometer offers privacy having promised to not sell your data to third parties, provides a much more detailed nutritional log and comes in as over £10 cheaper. Unfortunately it's also much, much more bloody complicated to use as it's also tracking nutrient uptake to a high-degree.
- Lifesum seems more my speed, and only £20 for the year yet offers similar functionality without being so far along the spectrum. £20 that I'm mostly paying less for the other features and more so that I don't have to look at people and the bar code scanning is useful.
It's a shame really, the NHS Weight Loss app would absolutely dominate the UK market if it had a barcode scanning functionality and the option to go into more detail. No contest, DHSC has the nutritional content of everything on the UK market that it could provide for free and would maybe be accurate enough that it could be useful in a medical setting. What it tells you would also be much more reliable than the bullshit articles you get on health apps.
