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Re: Why am I gaining weight instead of losing it?
Like @robartsd I weigh myself second thing each morning. With fewer exceptions than fingers on one hand, done it every day for three years.
If you're gonna do something like that, might as well write it down.
If you "write" it down in spreadsheet like Google sheets, then some boring afternoon you click stuff till you have a chart that gets updated automatically every morning.
Then when something weird happens you can look back and notice stuff.
- When salt intakes spikes 300% for a few days weight will increases two or three pounds, lagging a day behind salt.
- When I go on a cheddar cheese binge I gain weight due to constipation, not caloric surplus.
- An alcoholic binge causes me lose weight the next day due to dehydration and on subsequent days gain it all back plus more because of other related excesses.
Then, some sleepless night, you decide might as well include some other stuff.
Next thing you know, you're showing up for a semi-annual doctor appointment with annotated charts for weight, blood pressure, glucose, oxygen saturation, and seven other data points but for some reason, all the doctor wants to talk about is OCD.
OldHobo
Re: How do I get 100% targets on a vegan diet (with meal plans please)?
I'm a vegan dietitian (12 years vegan, 8 years RD) and can reassure you that soy products will not cause breast tissue growth, or any other issues for that matter.
Given your age, it might be worthwhile to work with a healthcare professional to ensure you are getting everything you need. I'm in Canada and work remotely but you can also search for vegan dietitians near you to see if any are close.
At breakfast, good protein sources include:
- chickpea omelet
- tofu scramble
- protein pancakes
- high protein bread (Silver Hill's)
- peanut butter
- quinoa oatmeal
At lunch and supper, you should be including at least 1 cup of either beans/lentils, tofu/tempeh, seitan.
I would also try to include at least 2 cups of plant milk/fortified plant yogurt per day (smoothies, drinks, oatmeal, etc.).
Also, check out the following blogs for more information:
https://cronometer.com/blog/everything-you-need-to-know-about-eating-plant-based-part-1/
https://cronometer.com/blog/everything-you-need-to-know-about-eating-plant-based-part-2/
Let me know if you have any follow-up questions!
600 days
Today marks my 600th day logging every single thing that I have eaten!
The first 6 months or so were with pen and paper, followed by about 6 months with myfitnesspal, and then I found Cronometer and could not be happier!
So here's my success story, 600 days, 98 pounds, and I have been maintaining my goal weight of 140lbs +/-5 lbs for over 6 months now!
RWP
Re: Add supplements to repeat daily
Hi David,
Cronometer does not have an option to schedule items to appear in your diary each day. Thanks for your feedback - this is a feature we are considering for development and it helps to hear from our users that this is something you would like to see.
Cheers,
behavior of CTRL+click and SHIFT+click on Diary page
When on the main diary page, CTRL+click behaves the same as a regular click and SHIFT+click allows you to individually select multiple items. Can you change this such that CTRL+click is used to individually select multiple items and SHIFT+click selects a range from the currently selected item to whatever other item is clicked? This would make it easier to select a range of items and also make the interface consistent with the GUI of pretty much every other webpage and application that has multi-select functionality.
Re: Cited on PubMed!
Absolutely amazing. The whole team at cronometer should be very proud of themselves. I will use this app for the rest of my life. I have celiac disease so not only is it benefiting me nutritionally it's also fun to use. I actually look forward to using cronometer each day. It's entertaining and enjoyable.
Search diary entries for food
I would like to be able to search my diary entries for foods that I have logged. As I plan my week's meals, I'd like to be able to search for the last time I entered, "salmon, pink, canned," to see how much it weighed in order to put it into my future diary entries.
Re: The Plant-Based Eating Interview is Live!
What a delight to find this plant based video on my first time checking into the cronometer community. Fantastic. I'm following the nutritarian diet (Eat for Life by Dr. Fuhrman). Not hungry. Feeling satisfied. Great energy and loosing weight (3 weeks and down 8+ pounds). Been vegan (plant based) since 2017 but too much processed food. Thanks to cronometer, I'm totally tracking nutritionally. I Love Cronometer 
Benita
Re: New Recipe - raw ingredient weight versus cooked serving weight
Suggestion to fix this? Cronometer could add a "Cooked Weight/Prepared weight" option. Then users could weigh the entire recipe after cooking, and easily enter exactly how much we ate.
Much easier than having to weigh the whole recipe and then do division to figure out how many grams are in each serving, or having to type in that I had 1.45 servings or whatever.
It would be so nice.
This idea was hard to describe via text.. Basically, the process would be this:
add ingredients. Chronometer does it's current thing. Give the user ANOTHER separate box where they can enter the prepared weight of the recipe in grams. Somehow make THAT the weight of the recipe, rather than the one that's automatically calculated because stuff changes while cooking.
OK, thanks, bye
Cronometer Export API
Hi, I would love to be able to get the same export information as currently exported in files as an API call. It would be very helpful for me to automate what is currently a daily download of multiple files that I paste into a spreadsheet for further processing.
With a REST (or similar) API, I would be happy to build the spreadsheet integration myself.
ak2k