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Re: Omega 3 - Please split EPA DHA!
I would love to be able to get an EPA / DHA breakdown as well.
Good idea!
Re: What integration would you like to see next?
Paprika App Integration!! This app allows me to create meal plans, shopping lists, pull in recipes from a URL, etc. https://www.paprikaapp.com/
Since you are a small team, adding this integration would allow you to meet many requests without creating your own version. Works with iOS, android, mac, windows.
Jazz5678
Re: What integration would you like to see next?
Integration with recipe managers - specifically Paprika Recipe Manager. That would make Cronometer 100% perfect.
kiki
Re: Changes to Fasting
Also chiming in as I updated my membership to Gold just for the fasting feature. Pretty disappointed so far at the lack of customizing and the features revolving around it, but I'm able to MacGuyver a few things just so I can keep everything logged. I too wish there was just a simple start/finish option; would love to log hours that way. Or to swap from "time elapsed" to "remaining time left". I'm always usually on a 20:40, but it's annoying to choose between logging as a "repeat" fast and choosing to not worrying about time logs (i.e setting my 20:40 starting from 8pm-4pm, but I'll start and stop at different hours through the week due to circumstances), or if I want to know specifically when I started or stop, I have to customize hours and make a non-repeating fast every day which is annoying. Maybe I'm just not used to it yet, but for such a "simple" feature, I struggle to find a good groove like I did with Zero. I'm still going to continue logging my fasts in Zero until Cronometer adopts close to the same features, but it's at least nice to log what I can in the mean time. Was just expecting more from it being a "Gold member" feature only.
As a side note, I absolutely *love* when other apps alert me of when my fast has finished/I've completed or passed my goal, and it'd be nice to maybe see a recognition for "streaks". I've always wanted this with logging entries per day too which was my favorite feature with MyFitnessPal. It made me really enjoy logging every day and seeing just how many days in a row I've logged, and getting a badge or congratulations on top of it helped with motivation. I would be so happy if these features eventually made their way to Cronometer. :)
Re: What integration would you like to see next?
Adding the RENPHO Smart Scale would be absolutely fabulous! Its well prices and works perfectly. Many people on the forums I belong to use it. It would be a great selling point for Cronometer Gold.
Calendar search for items/foods from your diary
Hi again!
Would be really helpful to be able to search your own food diary for a specific food and when you've eaten it.
Currently, if I would like to find out when did you eat let's say an Apple the last time, the only way to do this is to go through your calendar day by day and try to find the item from your entries for each day. When you have hundreds of days in the calendar, this becomes quite time consuming.
How this could work is just to see a red dot for example in the calendar section on each day you've eating the item you're searching for. This would make it easy to find specific items from your diary and also give a great visual overview of how often you're eating a specific food.
Misko
Re: Going Keto!
Inflammatory response is probably the leading factor in virtually all of the conditions that we call "disease" resulting from the Western lifestyle and diet. While the keto diet is great in many ways, it is also highly acidic, which contributes to inflammation. So balancing that out with some low carb vegetable options is important, and also with some supplementation of the right micronutrients such as potassium, magnesium, calcium and sodium. Baking soda can help with this as well. Keto diet also tends to be skewed towards Omega 6 which also is inflammatory so needs to be balanced out with anti-inflammatory Omega-3. While I had great results from the keto diet right off the bat, I noticed that once I paid attention to these things the results were even better and my body shed the rest of the inflammation in the joints and muscles that had already improved greatly as a result of going low carb no sugar. So the "recipe" is No Sugar, Low Net Carb, High Fiber, Moderate Protein, High Good Fats, Balanced PRAL Alkalinity, Balanced to High Omega-3/Omega-6 Ratio. Is working like a miracle for me.
Re: New Recipe - raw ingredient weight versus cooked serving weight
This thread bothered me when I first read it but I didn't comment, mostly out of laziness I guess. I was going to say I was trying to be polite, but truthfully, that just isn't in my nature.
December 2017 Karen_Cronometer wrote: The most accurate way to record your ingredients is also the most time-consuming. Cook and then weigh each ingredient separately then mix them together before you eat them. Record the weight of each cooked ingredient in your recipe. There are differences in nutrients in a cooked vs. raw food, so entering in the values as cooked foods will also give you a more accurate nutrient profile.
Let's pretend for a minute somebody cooking a soup, stew, tomato sauce, lasagna, meatloaf, or almost anything else you can name; was dumb enough to try to cook the ingredients separately, then weigh them, then combine them into a finished dish.
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If you tried I bet you just weren't able to imagine anybody actually doing that, right? Even if a body tried, it wouldn't work.
Here is a way that does work though. Weigh everything raw if it goes into the pot raw. Of course, if you're adding cooked can spinach add the weight of the cooked product.
So once you've added all the ingredients you've got the nutrients as accurately as is possible. But the final weight is unknown until the dish is cooked. But that's no big deal because you already have a list of all the tare weights of your pots and pans, right? So before filling the dinner bowls just move the pot from the stove to the scale, write down that number, and subtract the tare. Then open the "OldHobo's Plain Brown Basmati Rice per ounce" recipe and change the Servings per Recipe to equal the net weight in ounces of the finished dish.
This is one of them things thats lots harder to say than do. It really is a pretty simple solution.
Edited to add: the only reason I'm posting this now is because this thread got referenced earlier today in another thread.
OldHobo
Re: I am a fat vegan 😂
Hi Maria. To lose weight, with or, without exercise, you need to eat at a caloric deficit. Go online and find a BMR (Basal Metabolic Rate) calculator and then eat 20% less then those calories.
I have been whole food plant based for over a year now and have lost over 60 lbs eating this way.
There are healthy as well as unhealthy vegan/vegetarian foods out there, so, you have to choose wisely.
Best of luck to you....
Mike
DrPepper
