Should I start write the food that I eat and then put it on a fitbit?

[Zuniga_25_WX]

I wanted to track down the food that I eat on my Fitbit but I would forget to input for the day. Should I use a diary of the food that I eat and then input it on the Fitbit? 

[Daves_Not_Here]

Welcome @Zuniga_25_WX - I think it's easier to log as you go using the app on your phone.

Here's a trick I use -- I set up a few of my regular meals in Fitbit which makes it easy to enter a bunch of items at one time.  I'll then enter the meals I think I might eat.  Then I delete what I don't eat -- it's faster to delete than to add.

Good luck!

[SunsetRunner]

@Zuniga_25_WX I log food as I cook or eat. Sometimes when I find hard to use my mobile phone in the kitchen I simply write down everything in the notepad and then log the meal/recipe. Also, recently I started using an inventory app. I made a printout of all the barcodes of the products I have. It makes easier later when it comes to scanning the products ( such barcode sheet is pinned in the kitchen and it contains only products I have in my stock ). So when I log the food, I don't have to look for each ingredient in different place. I never logged at the end of the day. It doesn't work. My wife tried to log at the end of the day. Now she doesn't log anything at all, but even then she was very reluctant to do it so she always postponed it. It never worked. She never remembered what she ate not mentioning amounts. Log as you cook/eat. You may write down first if it's easier ( during cooking you may not want to touch your phone ), but don't postpone it until the end of the day.

[Zuniga_25_WX]

Thanks. Does it have to be exact item that I am currently eating? 

[SunsetRunner]

@Zuniga_25_WX Well it should be an exact item. You can't put in there a banana when you're having an apple 🙂 I try to be accurate in terms of the product. For that reason, I tend to choose products with the barcode ( Fitbit, MFP and many other apps come with the barcode scanner ). If I buy something directly from the local farmer I need to go with some assumptions. But when it comes to the whole foods it's hard to go wrong. A carrot from one place won't be really different from another carrot - bought from the farmer or the supermarket, that's not a big difference. The difference though comes if you buy ready meals or even ready packs of mixed chopped vegetables etc. To avoid such confusion I don't buy such products. Sometimes, if I'm in doubt during doing my shopping, I scan the product to see if it's in the database because then my life will be easier 🙂 So answering to your question - be as exact as you can. I know it's not always possible but then you may want to redirect your habits towards easy-loggable ( is there even such a word? 😉 ) foods.