Quote Originally Posted by ny biker View Post
Hmmm. I just downloaded myfitnesspal. I entered current weight 142, goal weight 140, want to lose .5 lbs per week. It told me how many calories per day would get me to lose 2.5 lbs by May 25.

Except I don't want to lose 2.5 lbs. I want to lose 2 lbs and then maintain that weight.

Also the data fields for how much exercise you do are not really helpful. The number of days I work out in a week varies from 4 to 6, and some days I might exercise for an hour, other days 1.5 hours, other days more than that. But there is no way to indicate such variability.
I guess I've never bothered about that part - I just use the tracker (food and exercise). I've not been particular about getting to any sort of goal in any sort of time. I just wanted to get down to my good climbing weight again for race season.... and in a manner that didn't leave me weakening myself or hungry all the time. 100 calories or so/day doesn't leave me wanting to chew off my own fingers and I've been slowly heading downwards, so I've been pleased.

What I like about this particular app is that it's got a decent database - most foods I look for are there, it's got a bar code scanner for packaged foods, it figures out the calorie counts for my recipes if I put in the ingredients and it works entirely on my ipod - I'd never keep up with it if I had to use my computer.

You do have to watch - anyone can add foods to the database and I've seen some just plain and obviously wrong data.