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FitDay
Here's a health and diet journal that you can use for free!
BACKGROUND
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Journaling is often touted as one of the activities that leads to successful weight loss. FitDay.com provides a journal free of charge. This online journal allows you to keep track of everything you've eaten in a day, your activities and exercises, and log your thoughts. It allows you to visualize what you've eaten, activities you've participated in, goals you’ve set, and anything else that goes into your day-to-day activities.
You're able to review charts and graphs every day or over a period of time like a week or month. You can view your progress toward a goal and see how many calories you burned while jogging, putting away groceries and working at your desk. You'll quickly be able to assess the areas where changes are most necessary.
PRO
- It's free
- Tracks 27 of the most important nutrition facts, including water
- References the 'Dietary Guidelines for Americans'
- Nutrition Values Database is extensive
- Journaling is recommended by nutrition and diet experts
- Tracks extensive list of activities and exercise
CON
- Update daily for most accurate results
- No specific diet instruction
- No specific exercise instruction
DIET and NUTRITION
The FitDay.com journal will allow you to enter every food and beverage you've consumed in a day. It will then calculate calories, fat, protein, carbs and other vitamins and minerals. Colorful, easy to read graphs are presented giving you a clear picture of exactly what you're putting in your body.
Controlling calories, fat and carbs is an important step in losing weight. For many, the tallying is a time consuming and complicated task. FitDay.com's journal does it for you, and this allows you to better control what you're eating.
FitDay.com does not provide diet instruction. However, you can use any diet of your choosing and track the results with the free journal at FitDay.com.
EXERCISE
Your FitDay.com free journal will allow you to enter and track all of your activities, and then show the number of calories you're burning. It's quite an extensive list that includes:
- Grocery shopping and putting away groceries
- Jogging, running and walking
- Sexual activity
- Household chores like cooking, ironing and sweeping
- Desk work or studying
- Playing an instrument
- Outdoor activities like canoeing, swimming, skiing and bicycling
CONCLUSION
Free, simple to use and packed full of valuable information, the online journal at FitDay.com is certainly an important tool for dieters. All you have to do is keep track of what you're eating and drinking, activities you engage in (as mundane as putting away groceries or as dedicated as running a few miles). Enter all of this information daily and FitDay.com will provide you with charts and graphs detailing your progress toward your selected goals.
Journaling is highly recommended for those trying to manage weight loss efforts. FitDay.com's journal makes this a simple task that can be done from anywhere you have an Internet connection. Use the diet program of your choice, and use FitDay as a tool to make those efforts more successful.
Common Misspellings
Fittday.com, FitDays.com, FiDay.com
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User Feedback
(Page 2 of 2, 34 total comments)mezz
I liked the site at first, using it every day over a 6 month period. But, after not using it for about a month, they totally wiped out ALL my information. All the saved custom foods, all the weight loss and exercise I was tracking, everything but acknowledging my email address. I emailed them several times asking why they did that, and never got a response. I don't care if the site is free, but have an FAQ and make clear what your activitiy/inactivity policies are.
posted Jan 1st, 2009 4:16 pmAlan
Successful weight loss starts at knowing where you stand from the moment you decide to lose weight. Fitday isn't a 'how-to' site or a diet plan, but it is an easy to use journal that allows one to track what one eats, how many calories one burns, and how much one weighs (among other things). I have lost 50 lbs in <4 months. I did not diet. I merely tracked what I ate on Fitday and made the appropriate adjustments. I still eat ice cream, peanut butter, and those other foods that I used to eat in my heavier days. The difference today is Fitday. The awareness of my caloric intake has allowed me to significantly turn my life around.
posted Dec 22nd, 2008 6:46 pmZach
Great site, recently updated and upgraded, if you tried it before and didn't like it you should try it again. Tons of information and food stats at your fingertips. Very easy to create custom foods quickly also. Contains not just cals and fats, but all nutrition and vitamin info. Great site, best part is it's free!
posted Dec 16th, 2008 10:41 pmSandy
I love it. ANd yes it is free
posted Nov 23rd, 2008 2:57 pmDonavon Guyot
Fitday certainly pioneered a lot of the cool functions for a web based nutrition log.
posted Nov 2nd, 2008 8:07 pmKevin K
This website is great, and only getting better with time. It assisted me in loosing 25lbs a couple of years ago, and I will be using it to take off some more lbs before the holidays. The food log is invaluable in seeing what you are eating and how much throughout the day. Add to that the exercise log, and it is exactly what I needed to build a healthier lifestyle. I can not recommend this product enough to people trying to make fitness/eating lifestyle changes.
posted Oct 27th, 2008 5:01 pmrhea
great site. gives you control of your own life. i lost 15 pounds in 3 weeks just by watching what i was eating. Ate more meals a day but with less calories overall. never felt hungry! Fitday helped me keep track. I havent even started exercising yet!
posted Oct 25th, 2008 12:39 amtony
Fit Day's journal tools are very handy but they are only as good as what you put into them...
posted Oct 22nd, 2008 9:54 amSueB
Fit Day has a great tool set that is free. The look of fitday.com is a little dated but the tools are great.
posted Oct 22nd, 2008 7:48 amnicco_45
To be an all encompassed diet there should be information regarding both diet and fitness and there is no fitness direction, which may lead some to feel that you don't need to be active, which is a huge miscommunication to the average consumer
posted Oct 4th, 2008 11:35 pmBrandywine
By keeping a log of what I eat I am finally being held accoutantable for everything I am putting into my mouth and that in itself has helped my identify areas i need to work on. To top it off, the service is free!!!
posted Oct 4th, 2008 11:28 pmTiffany P
Journaling is a great way to wrap your arms around what you're actually eating
Anonymous
love love love fitday.com if you keep up your entries, it's incredibly easy
Anonymous
is it still free? I logged on and the website asked me for 29 dollars