I used the same approach explained in the article and it also worked very very fast for me. The most pain to me was using MyFitnesPal, that is really annoying because of its usability. It was a pain to use it. I will try to use pencil and paper, and one time a day, type it all on the app.
Myfitnesspal and and fatsecret (the two most popular apps) are annoying as hell in the same way. They make it very difficult to just add calories because they want you to help fill in their food database.
Anyone know of an app that only tracks calories? I personally don't care about my "macros" and salt etc . There's almost no chance of going over recommended values at 1600 calories a day anyways unless you only eat gas station food
Yes, and one of the things that makes me sad is when the screen delays to update. When you touch on the screen to add a food, it goes to a blog post (the slow UI update make you do mistake several times each use). I wish to have time to develop a better app, but I already busy with another. There is a big opportunity for solving this problem.
PS: I reported the bugs but I always was ignored, even being a paid user.
Not trying to push our app too much here but we made Bitesnap for this reason. I was overweight as a kid and tried really hard to use MFP but it was the biggest chore of the whole weight loss process. With Bitesnap we're trying to automate things using computer vision.
Agreed, MyFitnessPal is really aggravating to use and if that wasn't bad enough their food database is full of inaccuracies and mis-spellings.
The app keeps on the phone a very small fraction of the total food database, that is only the food which you have already entered. Trying to use it in the Paris metro, where for the most part I don't get any signal, was very frustrating and I ended up uninstalling it and deleting my account.
