How's everyone doing on the meal plans?
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JannR
Cathlete
Who us...You girls are such enablers
????I have not had any problems for days.
I think most of the problems were with WM security which seems to be ok now.
JannR
Cathlete
I just ordered it! I'm officially a 'nutrition gal'. I'm slightly overwhelmed, but I'll take a look at the tutorials again and that will help I'm sure.
Wish me luck!
Marcia.
Good luck!!
meowracer
Cathlete
Thank you to those who replied to my questions. I think I may try it after vacation. I don't want to deal with entering stuff then, but I keep my eating the same or else my tummy will start up a revolution
If you make something from a recipe, is it best to just guess from a similar one or do you enter individual ingredients? Like the tuna salad that JannR (I think it was) mentioned -or any recipe that I may put together.
If you make something from a recipe, is it best to just guess from a similar one or do you enter individual ingredients? Like the tuna salad that JannR (I think it was) mentioned -or any recipe that I may put together.
SirenSongWoman
Cathlete
Ooooooh. I just hate keeping track of things. But this post is pushing me off the fence...
MCunningham
Cathlete
How much is the Nutrition Manager thingie again? I just don't know if this is worth the money when stacked against SparkPeople (which is free)... I have a fairly good grasp on nutrition (it's just the application part that gets sticky!), so I'm going to wait it out and see what happens with others...
MC
MC
I just got the monthly plan today to check it out. SparkPeople was my main site before.
The NS has the following things that I really like that SP doesn't have:
April
The NS has the following things that I really like that SP doesn't have:
- Complete breakdown of the day's nutritional values. SP doesn't have reports on each nutrient like NS does.
- Suggests foods that I like and eat that will raise my grades (will get better with time as I organize my favorites)
- Can track almost any measurement I can think of
- Others' complete/balanced MealPlans are easy to find and then customize
April
RunninTeach
Cathlete
Stebby, that's awesome! Are you eating at the low end of your calorie range?
Shana,
I have not tried entering in any recipes; I entered it in a custom food, but I'm not sure if that's the best way. Need to do more exploring. Maybe someone else knows better than I would.
As you add items, it saves to your favorites or custom foods. The only thing shared, to my knowledge, are the meal plans.
MC, the nutrition software as part of the premium membership is $9.99/month or $99/year, the latter of which is the best deal as you will also get the Workout Blender (when it becomes available) and 3 hours worth of video downloads. However, I would say if you've been successful with SparkPeople and like it, no need to change it.
Macska7, when you are signed into the forums, go up to the top of the page & click on Workout Manager...On the new page, you should see a purple premium membership box on the left-hand side.
RE: recipes, I think it's best to put it in as a custom food. If you put in the individual ingredients as a recipe, then you end up having all the ingredients added to your mealplan instead of a single line item.
Here's what I plan to do for recipes.
April
Here's what I plan to do for recipes.
- Create a recipe by adding the ingredients to a recipe
- Add a single serving to an empty mealplan (no other foods on that day)
- Open a new window of my web browser. (referred to as Browser 2)
- In browser 2, navigate to create a new custom food.
- In browser 1 that has the mealplan with the single serving of the recipe, hover over each of the letter grades for the nutrient values. You'll get the value and the % of recommendation. Use this information to fill in the custom food fields in browser 2.
- Save the custom food in brower 2.
- Now I just add the custom food to my mealplans
- Recipe can be deleted
April
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meowracer
Cathlete
Oy, I hope that is easier than it sounds! I am assuming that knowing the program, it makes perfect sense. I am going to hang on to this so I can walk myself through it. Thank you so much!
RunninTeach - Thank you for all of the info too!
Well, it is a bit of a work-around. I'd much prefer the site to put the recipe in one line item. But once it's done, it's done. I would get totally annoyed having every little ingredient in a recipe shown in my mealplan. If that doesn't bother you, you can just do the recipe and leave it at that.
April
Stebby
Cathlete
Hi Cathy (RunninTeach),
No, I'm eating at the upper end of my range. The range the NS gave me was 1305-1805, which I think was based on moderate activity (3-5 workouts per week or something like that). I'm eating in the 1700-1900 range most days (a couple of days over 2000) and have upped my activity a bit recently, to 5-7 workouts per week. It's probably important to note that I had been eating quite poorly and had quite a bit of weight to lose (38 lbs when I started, 32 now) - so I kind of expected a dramatic start. I expect I will have to decrease my calories and my progress will slow as I go along.
Stebby
No, I'm eating at the upper end of my range. The range the NS gave me was 1305-1805, which I think was based on moderate activity (3-5 workouts per week or something like that). I'm eating in the 1700-1900 range most days (a couple of days over 2000) and have upped my activity a bit recently, to 5-7 workouts per week. It's probably important to note that I had been eating quite poorly and had quite a bit of weight to lose (38 lbs when I started, 32 now) - so I kind of expected a dramatic start. I expect I will have to decrease my calories and my progress will slow as I go along.
Stebby
