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Re: Rate my daily smoothie
Is your wheat grass powder suspiciously silver in colour and metallic in taste?
Paul
Re: Cronometer Saves the Day
I have been using Cronometer to adjust my diet/lifestyle since being diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes on October 26, 2017. At the time of my diagnosis, I weighed 205 lbs. and had a body fat % of 25.0 (I am a male, 54 years old, and am 6'1" tall).
When I returned to my doctor for my first post diagnosis visit on November 29, I had lost 11 pounds in 34 days using Cronometer. My body fat % also decreased to 22.7%.
As of today, 85 days after my diagnosis, I weigh 190 lbs. with a body fat % of 21.2%.
I have been going to the YMCA about 3 times a week (usually 45 minutes on the treadmill) and have used Cronometer to help me achieve a 500 calorie/day deficit. These two things have been critical to my success.
I want to publicly thank the good folks at Cronometer for a great product! In the past, I had used CalorieCount.com but I found out in October when I got my diagnosis that it had gone out of business. Thankfully, Cronometer has filled its shoes (and then some).
I am very grateful to Cronometer. I expect that when I go back to my doctor on March 20 for lab tests that my diabetes and other markers (high cholesterol & triglycerides) will be much improved.
Bulk Ingredient Import for Recipes
Hi There!
I find it would save me a lot of time if there were a bulk import of ingredients (ie. if I could copy and paste) for the recipe builder to 'read' and then give me a 'best match' idea. This feature is used in myfitnesspal and other online recipe calculators.
ap2013
Re: What integration would you like to see next?
Omron blood pressure monitors
finnd1
Notes
May we have a small coloured dot on the calendar in the bottom right corner of each day that has a note attached please, with the content of the note displayed on mouseover?
spot
New Features - March 2018 Roundup
Hi there and greetings from Cronometer.com Towers.
We are starting this section of the forums to let everyone know what we have added to cronometer.com recently.
This will help us let you know about our nifty new features, show you how excited we are for you guys to use them and to send us feedback to help improve them further.
We hope to do this once a month.
As this is the first update, I'll briefly cover what's been added in the last 3-6 months:
Free App updates:
- Massive investment in usability of app on both iOS and Android platforms
- 20,000+ curated foods added to the database
Gold Updates:
- Ask the Oracle food suggestion feature updated with improved user interface amd much improved algorithim
- Redesign of mobile app with heavy enphasis on improved useability
- Massive investment in usability of app on both iOS and Android platforms
- 20,000+ curated foods added to the database
Pro Updates:
- Pro internal notes feature
- Add internal notes on clients
- Hide nutrient information from clients (for specific individual clients)
In the next month we expect to add over 10,000 new curated foods, that number increasing every month along with some big feature additions to the Gold app in the works!
Until next month
The Team @ Cronometer.com
Re: What integration would you like to see next?
Other integration - Not sure if you consider this an "integration" but I'd love to see Cronometer integrate with Paprika (for recipes & nutrients).
Little bit of a public 'happy dance'
Celebrating 50 pounds lost since I started 18 weeks ago, the beginning of November. As of this week, I've averaged 2.8 pound per week, even though I have my setting set for 2 pounds per week. I use the Zone diet formula (40% carbs, 30% protein, 30% fat) which has worked for me in the past, but didn't have a good, quick way to keep track so I went back to WW and struggled with their last few programs. Cronometer has been an amazing find and lets me efficiently do Zone again and man is it working.
Since I started, I've started using a fitbit to get more accurate activity calories. Although the fitbit gives me less calories overall than I was averaging on cronometer - and it has actually slowed my weight loss. I think I was doing better with just cronometer giving me my daily calorie limit - but I do like the data from the fitbit. I wanted to add this because I see some people struggling with the cronometer estimates but for me they are right on.
btw I travel extensively on the road and have to work out the nutrition on the road...tonight I'm sitting in a hotel room eating go chu jang chicken and noodles (pulled rotisserie chicken breast tossed in go chu jang mixed with microwaveable noodles) with a chopped salad with avocado, crispy jalapenos, and mango salsa (I usually make my own in the hotel room, but found some tonight at the grocery). It takes a little bit of work on the road, but I travel with knife, collapsible bowls, and measuring cups, and even a food scale so I can keep on track even on the road.
Here's looking forward to the next 50 pounds!
Re: What integration would you like to see next?
Any kind of integration that would simplify adding recipes would be my first choice. Currently, this can be quite a cumbersome process, and better recipe management/integration is probably the main missing feature preventing me from upgrading to Gold.
Full Integration: Ideally, this would include integration with a popular recipe manager or site like Paprika, Allrecipes, Food Network, Epicurious, Yummly, etc.
API: If that's not feasible, a simpler incremental step would be to expose a public API that would allow users to make their own recipe app integrations.
JSON Spec: Something even lower-effort might be to simplify and document the JSON format that Cronometer can import and export. Currently, this is too tightly coupled to internal database IDs, etc. to be very useful.
Food IDs: Finally, probably the most basic thing that could be done to potentially enable simplified recipe management would be providing a complete export of your food DB, or at least a simplified set of key-value pairs consisting of {food_id: food_name}.
After playing around with the JSON exported by Cronometer, food IDs appear to be the main obstacle to being able to programatically generate a recipe that could be imported. I suppose a bit of web scraping could also provide this information, but while that might be a fun project, at that amount of effort I'm probably not saving much time over manually adding recipes.
JKCook