what's a good website for macros and repost into threads.

[GirlyGymRat]

Looking for a website that allows for easy transfer into the preferred and highly recommended method on this site that is, for each food item in weight, the corresponding calories/grams of protein/grams of carb/grams fat, sub total by meal, grand total by day.

I use livestrong.com and not finding it easy to transfer the daily macronutrients into this format. Anybody have a website/app that allows downloads that can be easily tweaked and transfered to a thread reply!?!

Appreciate those that are user friendly and your "trade secret" websites. Thx! : )))))

[Times Roman]

PM me and i can send you a spreadsheet I created with over 1500 food items complete with macros, cholestoral.
It's interactive and calculates your macros per meal and total macros per day

[apolloraver]

would you be able to send it to me as well please times roman?

[fullboost]

I use myfitnesspal.com. Very rarely find anything that's not on the database, plus you can create your own meals (e.g, if you have eggs, oats etc) for breakfast you can save it and quickly add itto your food 'diary' - has a mobile app for beingout and about too

[lovbyts]

Ive checked out my fitness and didnt see anything useful. i know the spreadsheet TR is talking about. I think it was posted here at one time and it's really good.

My fitness doesnt even list weight training or sex in the Calories Burned From Exercise categories.

[RaginCajun]

i use the LoseIt app. you can input everything in it, scan bar codes, and many more features.

[Times Roman]

would you be able to send it to me as well please times roman?

yes. but you need to get your post count up to 50 so you can pm me so I can send it to you.

[JackedAJ]

livestrong.com has a interactive program called My Plate, very good! Just type in what you ate and it calculates it for you.

[GirlyGymRat]

thx everyone.

LuvBites, ranges from 5 - 150 just sayin : )

[qkcam]

i have been trying calorie count. com it breaks it down like this not sure if this is what you mean? you an go in and tell it what % of protein,carbs and fat you want.. like i am trying to get 50, 30, 20 and it tells me my carbs and fat are too high for that ratio right now..
Carbs
131 g

Protein
143 g


Fats
61.9

Too High

Saturated Fat
10.1 g

Good

Cholesterol
191 mg

Good

Sodium
2,124 mg

Too High

Fiber
30 g

Good

Vitamin A
6,703 IU

Good

Vitamin C
567 mg

Good

Calcium
755 mg

Too Low

Iron
51 mg

Too High

Potassium
1,582 mg

Too Low

[GirlyGymRat]

^^^ looks promising. I have seen others use this app. can u do a "test" drive in your other thread to see if it is user friendly enuff for you to post

Here is how I have posted my plan in my thread...

Workout days Calories/g P/g C/ g F

Meal 1 Breakfast - 300/29/34/6
Wake up – 16 oz coffee with dry creamer
½ c oats with stevia and cinnamon
½ c 99% egg whites
½ c 2% cottage cheese

Meal 2 Snack – 189/16/4/4
1/2 c cottage cheese 2%
dash of cinnamon and stevia
2 fish oil caps
1 c broccoli

Meal 3 Lunch - 364/42/13/10
6 oz grilled skinless chic breast
Mixed Leafy Salad with balsamic dressing
2 fish oil caps

Meal 4 Pre WO –160/11/15/4
6 oz 0%f fage yogart with stevia and cinnamon
½ med sweet potato with cinnamon

Meal 5 Post WO – 260/28/30/4
Met-Rx Protein plus shake-1 scoop
½ c oats

Meal 6 Dinner- 271/45/4/4
6 0z tilapia (or other fish but not salmon)
6/7 Asparagus spears grilled (pam and drizzle of EVOO and fresh garlic)

Total Daily: 1543 cal/171P/101C/35F

Non Workout days. Delete Pre & Post WO Carbs. Combine Pre and Post work out meals into yogurt and protein shake mix.

[GirlyGymRat]

I haven't had time to look at Mr Canjun's app. What did u think?

[qkcam]

thanks for sharing your how your meal logging looks.. very tidy and you are eating real food! Looks good. i havent looked at Mr. cajuns suggestion yet either.. haven't been on computer much. trying to keep things as simple as i can right now.. and need to keep moving forward in small steps-- food has been pretty good.. but maybe not enough... i need to start practicing this macro listing stuff.
thanks for the reminder!

[SexySweetheart]

***love the new name! ggr****

[qkcam]

not as tidy as GGR.. but work in progress..
sunday's food and exercise

TOTAL CALS 1,649
Fat - 20.4% Pro - 36.4% Carb - 42.5%

Will work on breaking down the macros for each meal tomorrow.. I hope.


Breakfast
Rice Cakes, Brown Rice, Plain + 1 TSP almond butter

opti energy pack 1/3
KPAX ENERGY 1 TAB
orac energy greens + pea protein

Pre workout..
Irish Oatmeal - John Mccann's + pea protein + frozen blueberries+ psyhilm husks

WORKOUT: LITE CHEST 20 MINS TREADMILL WALKING 3.0 ON SLIGHT INCLINE
Post workout Shakeology

LUNCH
½ chicken breast on corn tortilla w/ 1tsp pico de gallo
Blended raw smoothie w/Kale + spinach + celery+ ½ frozen mano + ½ c frozen pinapple

DINNER
Ahi Tuna about 5oz
Steamed spinach
Small sweet potato

SNACK
PROTEIN PWDER
FISH OIL
1 TSP PEANUT BUTTER

[Super-Chump]

I use http://www.calorieking.com.au/

There is also a US version: http://www.calorieking.com/

I use an excel spreadsheet to log my meals and to help calculate my totals macros for the day

[qkcam]

thanks super chump! I might check out the calorieking.com.. i have been using calorie count..and hate to start all over.. does calorie king do macros? i guess alot of folks are using excel too.. i need to look more into this...any ideas would be grand!
thanks

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i use caloriecountdotcom and it works fine for what i need. percentages are easy to figure out. u just multiply whatever total macro grams by its corresponding number of cals per gram and divide that number by total cals to get percentages.. for example:

2000cals
300g pro
100g carbs

300(grams pro) x 4 (cals per gram) = 1200cals protein
1200/2000 = 0.6 or 60%

100(grams carbs) x 4 (cals per gram) = 400cals carbs
400/2000 = 0.2 or 20%

[GirlyGymRat]

i use caloriecountdotcom and it works fine for what i need. percentages are easy to figure out. u just multiply whatever total macro grams by its corresponding number of cals per gram and divide that number by total cals to get percentages.. for example:

2000cals
300g pro
100g carbs

300(grams pro) x 4 (cals per gram) = 1200cals protein
1200/2000 = 0.6 or 60%

100(grams carbs) x 4 (cals per gram) = 400cals carbs
400/2000 = 0.2 or 20%

I thought there were more calories per gram in carbs than protein. and more calories in fat then carbs. so i found the following on the bathroom wall (that is the internet. LOL)

Protein contains 4 calories per gram
Carbohydrates contain 4 calories per gram
Fat contains 9 calories per gram

[Times Roman]

Anyone else need an interactive spreadsheet for macros?

[GirlyGymRat]

Anyone else need an interactive spreadsheet for macros?

qkcam...you might like this. I checked it out and I do. I haven't exercised it yet, but looks very promising

[Armykid93]

I use myfitnesspal.com. Very rarely find anything that's not on the database, plus you can create your own meals (e.g, if you have eggs, oats etc) for breakfast you can save it and quickly add itto your food 'diary' - has a mobile app for beingout and about too

Did you buy the better version or use the free one?

[milky01623]

Anyone else need an interactive spreadsheet for macros?

Hiya buddy can u send me ur spread sheet thanks milky

[Super-Chump]

Yeah calorie king does macros too.

Here is an example of boiled brown rice: http://www.calorieking.com.au/foods/...3biByaWNl.html

So it basically provides the following for each type of food
- Calories
- Total Fat
- Saturated Fat
- Cholesterol
- Sodium
- Carbohydrate
- Sugars
- Dietary Fibre
- Protein

[qkcam]

Hey GGR...did you mean to send a link? yes Roman..would love an interactive macro spreadsheet.. cool! thanks

I looked at calorie king and got thrown off by the metrics.. shame on me!

[Times Roman]

Hey GGR...did you mean to send a link? yes Roman..would love an interactive macro spreadsheet.. cool! thanks

I looked at calorie king and got thrown off by the metrics.. shame on me!

ya need to pm me so i can get it to ya!

[deathdodger]

www.FitDay.com is a good one.