Tracking macros and calories

[Anonymous]

What are good apps to track calories and basic nutrients (protein, far, carbs, plus ideally key vitamins)? I cook and compose a lot of meals from raw ingredients, so anything that can help parse out roughly what we're getting from something like a homemade stir fry or salad bowl with tons of ingredients.

I'm interested both for my perimenopausal self starting to gain belly fat and my teen athlete who has been fatigued lately. Teen has a phone but I was thinking I'd prefer to input our basic meals myself and just check if we're hitting close to reasonable levels of proteins and vitamins rather than add something that could lead a teen down a slippery slope of obsessive eating.

I know they need more carbs and calories than me, so are there apps that allow for different family members?

[Anonymous]

Chat GPT take a picture of your food, ask it to break out calories and macros, save in folder in Chat GPT or Apple notes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Chat GPT take a picture of your food, ask it to break out calories and macros, save in folder in Chat GPT or Apple notes.

While a cool concept, the subreddit Calorie Estimates says this is really inaccurate.

The best way is to get a food scale and track it in LoseIt. I can even upload links to recipes and it formulates everything. After a week of weighing, I know what I'm looking for and can easily estimate.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Chat GPT take a picture of your food, ask it to break out calories and macros, save in folder in Chat GPT or Apple notes.

While a cool concept, the subreddit Calorie Estimates says this is really inaccurate.

The best way is to get a food scale and track it in LoseIt. I can even upload links to recipes and it formulates everything. After a week of weighing, I know what I'm looking for and can easily estimate.

You can also add friends, share recipes/meals, set goals for nutrients and examine macros. If I'm eating the same meal every day (bread, cheese, lettuce) I can save it as a meal and add it the next day.

[Anonymous]

Any AI program.

Or just get a spiral and write it down. All the info you need is on the food packaging.

[Anonymous]

The paid version of the my fitness pal app lets you input recipes to track mactros, it also has a feature that creates meal plans according to your macros and preferences as well as shopping lists and reminders.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Chat GPT take a picture of your food, ask it to break out calories and macros, save in folder in Chat GPT or Apple notes.

While a cool concept, the subreddit Calorie Estimates says this is really inaccurate.

The best way is to get a food scale and track it in LoseIt. I can even upload links to recipes and it formulates everything. After a week of weighing, I know what I'm looking for and can easily estimate.

Its more accurate than 99% of the approaches most people are going to take. You aren't taking a food scale to a restaurant, or to work with you.