Learn about Simpleweight Food
Counting calories, points, carbohydrates, sugars, or fats used to be difficult - we made it simple.
- First Find the foods you ate:
- In our growing food database
- or add a food or recipe once and use it often
- Then tell us how much of it you ate
- And finally, the calories, fats, carbs, sugars, and other important vitamin & minerals are calculated for you.
That's it. It's that simple!
Simpleweight offers simple tools to create your own daily food journal. This manages the Food In part of the simpleweight equation. We feel counting calories, points, carbohydrates, sugars, or fats is too difficult. Who wants to count or calculate all these items? Not Us. We want a simple way to log our food.
Consequently, we created the simpleweight food tool which acts as a food journal, food pantry, and recipe database. This food tool is used to calculate and estimate the nutritional value of the food you eat.
How does it work?
When you go to the store, you buy food, bring it home, and put it into your cupboard, refrigerator, and/or pantry. With our simpleweight foods, you type the food you eat into "my foods", Simpleweight calculates the calories, fat, carbohydrates, protein, and other nutrients for you. You can then use your own foods and our standard simpleweight foods to create recipes and meals by taking items and building a dinner, lunch, breakfast, or snack. Now that the food is saved, all you do then is add it to your food and tell us how much you ate.
For example, if it is my turn to cook tonight. I might cook chicken soup, chili, tacos, fajitas, burgers, or pasta and Italian sauce.
The first time I cook one of these items, I enter the recipe into Simpleweight. Then, optionally, I will build meals based upon my recipes and add the meal to the food I ate for today. I entered the recipe one time. The next time I eat homemade chicken soup, or any other food, I just take the food out of my favorites or my foods and specify how much I ate. The calories, the vitamins, minerals, fats, carbs, sugars, and everything else is calculated for me.
How does it work for dining out?
When you go out to eat, ask your waiter or waitress for a calorie list, then just enter the calories you eat. If you can not find a calorie list, you can do one of two things, try to estimate what food you ate and a one-time food into your foods or just guess by using a quick food entry. The beauty of using simpleweight trend analysis is good guesses work too.
One of our goals at Simpleweight is to make tracking your eating habits in the food journal as simple as possible. Future enhancements to make Food In management simple include: A social recipe network with searching and tagging. This recipe sharing network will include intelligence to recommend new foods and recipes based upon your current Food In tastes and current eating habits. We will eventually add mobile phone access and texting pictures to assist you with tracking your food while you are away from you computer.
Join today to start using simpleweight food tools to meet your weight management goals.