Are All Food Tracking Websites Equal?

I ate something yesterday and went to My Fitness Pal to enter it and was frustrated that I could not find an exact match.  I came to MFP after a short stint with my Lose It app on my iPhone, and before that I was logging over at the Daily Plate at Livestrong.com.  There was another one in the mix, too, but the name escapes me.

I have found myself on occasion floating over to Livestrong because their food database is unmatched.  They just have everything!  But back when I was with them, their interface was a bit clumsy and I had the Blackberry app and could never get that to work.  So, fickle as I was, I left.

Yesterday following my moment of MFP frustration, I looked and read about Livestrong’s new iPhone app (new to me, anyway).  I forked over the $2.99  for the app, and re-logged on to Livestrong. If you know me, you know that I’m a bit OCD when it comes to logging or tracking food.  I don’t know why this is – especially since I’m now following a low-carb lifestyle and should throw tracking by the wayside.  But that’s just not me.  I want data, spreadsheets, and information.  I want to have something to shove in your face when I am stuck on a plateau to say, “HA!  See?  I SHOULD be losing weight!”

So I’m going to log in both places for a while to determine if there’s a big discrepancy between the two, which I don’t expect.  More importantly, to discover which one I like better.  So stay tuned.

Meanwhile, you might notice my new addition on the right  - my weight log.  Whew – I was not sure if or when I’d be ready to post this, but there it is.  I remember vividly confessing to my co-workers David & Shelley, back in April or so that I weighed 191 pounds.  They politely scoffed and said there was NO WAY I weighed that much!  Love them (liars!) but indeed I was and I thought that now that I was a good 10 pounds lower than that, it was time to be transparent.  So there it is.  I’m itching to show a 170-something over there!