I've been loving the SnapCalorie app. I've been using it for almost a month straight now and it is the first time I've ever actually stuck with food and nutrition logging. I get a weekly email summary of my average daily calories, protein, etc. More on that in a bit, as it has been a game-changer.
The absolute best thing, however, has been the dashboard. The very first thing it displays is how many fruits and veggies I've had for the day. I immediately increased my plant consumption. One way has been to eat my own take on Anfernee's yogurt bowl breakfast. I add 20g of granola to the bottom of a bowl and then load the bowl with as much fruit and nonfat Greek yogurt as I can swallow, and then top it with 25g of maple syrup or honey.
My wife has used SnapCalories, too, which greatly helps both of our compliance. We even have a stack of index cards in the kitchen to write down food weights if one of us is cooking for the other, in case you want to know how hard we party in the Camacho household.
When you really start weighing things and eating the recommended number of fruit and veggies, the sheer volume of food adds up quick. One of those yogurt bowls can top 650g. That's almost a pound and a half of food and not an insane amount of calories. It is eye-opening.
Eating that much gets old, so I tend to slightly overeat on calories and protein most days and then fast during the day a couple of times a week. This is how I normally eat when I'm not tracking. Now that I'm getting a weekly average, rather than worrying about hitting the same numbers every day, I realize that I was actually doing better than I thought and I just needed to tweak things so my average over the week is what I am looking to hit.
9.5/10. Would recommend if not for the copious amount of vegetables. Getting my squats in though!
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