Charting Your Calories

Name:

Directions
1. Pick one of the following websites you would like to use and create and account:
www.myfitnesspal.com
www.loseit.com
www.choosemyplate.gov
www.myfooddiary.com

You may use an existing account you have or a different website you already use

2. Choose a tip from www.choosemyplate.gov that we discussed in class and try to

implement it into your diet.

3. Track everything you eat and drink for two weeks and enter it into the
website and/or application

4. Print out summary reports and staple them to this sheet

Lose It: Click Insights, Weekly Summary, Set Dates, Export to Spreadsheet,
Clean up Spread Sheet, Print.
MyFitnessPal: Click Food, Scroll Down and Click on View Full Report
Set Dates, Click on Change Report, Right Click and Print

5. Fill out this chart and answer the questions on the back
Calories Empty Cal Beverages Calories Empty Cal Beverages
Day 1 Day 8
Day 2 Day 9
Day 3 Day 10
Day 4 Day 11
Day 5 Day 12
Day 6 Day 13
Day 7 Day 14

Total Calories: 0 Average Calories 0

Empty Calories: 0 Average Empty Cal: 0
Beverages: 0 Average Beverages: 0
1. How many calories did the website recommend you consume daily?

2. What was the average amount of calories you consumed daily?

3. What was the highest amount of calories you consumed on a single day? Why?

4. What was the lowest amount of calories you consumed on a single day? Why?

5. Did you have a calorie excess, a calorie defecit, or did you break even?

6. Do you think that charting your calories affected what you ate? Why or why not?

7. What was the average amount of empty calories you ate daily?

8. What was the average amount of calories you drank daily?

9. What tip did you focus on from www.choosemyplate.gov?

10. Were you successful implementing that tip? Why or why not?