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Michiel de Vries - 27 Oct 2003 17:02 GMT

I am looking for a program for my PDA (Palm )S 3) to keep track of my
food intake. Primarily I only need a food log, the caloric equivalent
would be fine. Maybe some general kind of logbook could do too.

**** But I also want to be able to print out the log on my PC in some
**** decent format.

Maybe I should go for some PDA spreadsheet, but I never looked into those.

Of course preferable freeware.
Any suggestions? Thanks!

-- Michiel

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jmk - 30 Oct 2003 14:53 GMT

> I am looking for a program for my PDA (Palm )S 3) to keep track of my
> food intake. Primarily I only need a food log, the caloric equivalent
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>
> -- Michiel

I use BalanceLog (http://www.healthetech.com/). I though that it was
great for weight loss (lost about 60 lbs using it) but I don't care for
the maintenance interface. I will probably stick with it though since I
have added custom foods and stuff to it. You can log your food intake,
exercise and weight, bf%, etc. I have the Palm and PC programs and they
sync with each other.

I think that someone else in this ng uses CalorieKing
(http://www.calorieking.com/). I've never used it so I can't really
speak about it.

Both of the above programs are pay programs. It looks like there are
some free ones listed at
http://www.freewarepalm.com/medical/medical_diet.shtml

I do find it to be very handy to have my info with me all of the time
and I would recommend using your Palm for this. I do know that a lot of
people on this ng use FitDay (http://www.fitday.com/) with success as
well. This is also free and you may want to check that out as well.

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D. Cook - 31 Oct 2003 00:28 GMT

> I think that someone else in this ng uses CalorieKing
> (http://www.calorieking.com/). I've never used it so I can't really
> speak about it.

I love CalorieKing. It's got an amazing food database. I don't really
care for the weight chart, so for that I use EatWatch. CK is
definitely worth it for tracking intake.

Of course, it's all a moot point now since I've got a P800, which is
Symbian rather than Palm. I'm trying to con the CalorieKing guys to
porting over their app, but I'm not having any luck. MyDiet is okay,
but the food database is really sparse and don't keep track of anything
but calories. And you can't edit past weights, and for some reason it
comes with two weeks of weight filled in as an example with no way to
change it!

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Jennifer Austin - 31 Oct 2003 03:08 GMT

> I am looking for a program for my PDA (Palm )S 3) to keep track of my
> food intake. Primarily I only need a food log, the caloric equivalent
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>
> -- Michiel

I use excel with Documents to Go on my Palm. I have the USDA foods database
on my Palm (free download) and then I update the spreadsheet as the day goes
on. When I synch up at night, it updates the spreadsheet on my PC.

I also happen to use DietPower software on my PC for reference and analysis
because I just started using the spreadsheet a few weeks ago.

Jenn

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