Food logging.

[Wofty]

I love my new Fitbit (so far), however, when I go to record my food intake, I just get all in a muddle because I want to get it right and have it as accurate as possible, as logging food is starting to become annoying and I don't want to turn around and say, oh stuff this for game of soldiers and never where the Fitbit again.

When logging food I have the option to put Sodium on in mg, all the foods I eat have Salt listed in grams, so I get confused as what to put.

I've never seen Potassium listed on my foods, do I need to record this?

Calories from Fat, again, not seen this on any labels, nor Cholesterol.

Some of the foods in the database which state I serving as 100g of the product and not one serving which could only be 5g per serving, so the calorie count is extremely high, can I modify these or at least report them as incorrect?

Fitbit is really starting to become a great help to me, and I want to keep it that way and get it right, and FOOD is a problem for me, so recording it accurately is a major help.

Thanks in advance..

[admmck81]

If all the foods you eat list salt in grams, you are probably consuming too much salt. Also, for game of soldiers? Is that a thing? I just googled it, and sure enough, it is. You learn something new every day! But anyway, it is easy to convert grams to mg. Just multiply the number by 1,000.

[Ahn-roo-may]

Since most food labels list calories and other nutrients per 100 g of the product, I've started recording 100 g as the serving size for all foods. When  logging what I actually ate, I weigh or measure the portion and record the amount in grams. Hopefully, from the info I recorded in the database, the program will be able to calculate the calories and nutrients I actually consumed. For example: 100 g of X = 96 calories (serving size in database), so consuming 75 grams of X yields 72 calories. It works fairly well for me.