Heading Back to Lose It!

My Fitness Pal just wasn’t the right fit for me. Part of it could be that I am just used to how things work on Lose It! But I had some trouble with the calories that were showing up in foods and how the exercise calories were figured out as well. A lot of times the exercise calories didn’t make any sense. I know a couple of my friends use it, and the added support would be great, but I’m just not happy with how the rest was working so it’s back to Lose It!

Trying out My Fitness Pal

Two of my fellow book blogger friends you My Fitness Pal so I decided to make the switch from Lose It! I’ve used Lose It! a couple times in the past and liked it, but after a week of using My Fitness Pal I think I like it a bit more. The food database seems to be bigger so I have yet to enter my own foods. It’s also easy to use.

My one complaint is that the calories for exercising seem a little off to me, as there is no choice for light, moderate, heavy in the cardio. My Fitness Pal calculates my calories burned on the elliptical at 500 for 30 minutes, but the machine, Lose It! and an online calculator have the values calculated between 300-350 which is more in range. This means I will have to adjust the calories or minutes to get it into the range I think it’s in. Some activities are hard to judge though, but I will err on the side of caution and go with a lower value.

Hopefully this will work out well.  I’ve already lost 3 lbs (though 2 of that was the week before I started losing).  I’m excited to see what the future will bring.