I heard about FitDay.com on the local news last night. So, I looked them up.
Before you sign up, read this: FitDay.com Privacy Statement
Information Collected
FitDay collects personal information about you when you sign up for a FitDay account. This information includes your age, weight, sex, and level of activity.
Once you sign up for an account and sign into FitDay.com, you are not anonymous to us.
FitDay also stores the information you enter about foods, activities, goals, and all other information collected in the online forms.
FitDay logs information such as the IP address that you access the server with, and what pages you requested.
FitDay may use this information to target specific advertisements or to suggest items to you.
If you don't want to be "cookied," and followed around the internet, go to: http://www.doubleclick.com/us/about_doubleclick/privacy/ and click on their "ad opt-out function. They SAY it prevents advertisers with Double Click from giving you cookies.
Now, for the good news: this is a very good online resource.
You can carefully track ALL your physical activity, including such things as writing, washing dishes, grocery shopping, etc.
You can input every bite you eat.
It will tell you if you've burned the calories you've eaten.
It will tell you if your diet is balanced, and by what percentages.
It will tell you if you've received the recommended daily allowances of ALL nutrients.
I am malnourished; for several critical vitamins and minerals, I'm below fifty percent! This includes calcium.
By entering every bite, every activity I can see where my nutrition is lacking and what I need to change to improve it.
Now, this system isn't perfect. For instance, "seafood cocktail" isn't listed as a food, and it would take me forever to add less-than-one-ounce each of: squid, cuttlefish, clams, octopus, mussels, shrimp, white fish, cocktail sauce. However, I CAN add a "customized food," so I'll see if I can create "seafood cocktail" as a regular food in my diet.
It even calculates for herbs, spices, sweeteners, fats...everything. They don't list all herbs, etc, but enought to give you an idea of their nutritional benefits.
I am malnourished. And my diet has been very bad: depending mostly on cheap sugars, fats and carbohydrates to stave off hunger.
My calorie intake averages in the range of 1,500 to 2,000 per day; it should be about 2,200.
And this is my calorie intake, even after trying to modify my nutrition to make it healthier.
I don't know if this thing accomodates for "weird" foods, such as soy flour, for instance. But, again, I can customize.
THere's a CDrom you can buy, for your computer or palm pilot or whatever, if you're rich and lazy.
But this online verison is easy to read and use, free, fast loading (even on an MSNTV) and VERY informative, if you take the time to really use it.
Just remember to guard your privacy, as much as possible.
I don't want the Office of Homeland Security arresting me for eating Palestinian goat cheese!
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