CONTRIBUTED
BY JEN
I'm very
excited to get started on a new extended Spring competition with all of you!
I hope you will use this site to share ideas and inspiration. Email me
to post anything you want to add.
Below are links to some tools I use that you might find helpful.
To track my calories, fat, carbs, and sodium intake, I am using:
I use the website to track and I also bought
the pro app for $3.99 for my iPhone. You can actually scan the barcode
on any food you are eating and it will pick it up and add it to your
foods.
To check whether the calories mynetdiary.com suggested for me
are reasonable, I matched it with a few other sources. I like this blogs
simple answers:
If
you read through this page gives you both a 'Nutritional Needs
Calculator' and a 'Basal Metabolic Rate (BMR)
Calculator'. I found these both very helpful.
I also found this page which had another interesting calorie
calculator:
It gives an ideal daily
caloric intake based on weight, height, and age, but also incorporates a
7 day calorie zigzag guideline that I love - stating that calorie
cycling tricks your body and helps to prevent or break plateaus.
