Be fit with BeFit for Mac

Okay, so I download the demo (I LOVE that they still support 10.4, whereas "Calories" requires 10.5).

Then, I figure I'll try to track what I had today just to see how many calories it says I had. So, I type in "toast." Nothing. Okay, I type in "bread." Still nothing. Then, I type in "milk" and up pops 500 entries with every type of milk EXCEPT whole milk from a cow.

So, let's see. Out of the "vast" food library of 7000+ entries, you don't have bread or milk. Yeah, that's good.

And what's up with not being able to resize the window?!?!? I have a big honking monitor but I'm restricted to what this guy thinks I should use?

I definitely will NOT be buying this app any time soon.

Can anyone recommend a good workout tracker for the Mac? I've been using Weightmania but have not found it particularly user-friendly.

Thanks.

Hi, I'd love something like this. Is the US based or International ???

Different locations, different foods !!!!!

thedailyplate's website has the most robust database of food, meals, and add-able foods, as well as workout tracking. Absolutely excellent--now, if they'd just get an iPhone app. Also great is the Palm "Diet and Exercise Assistant"--also needing an iPhone app. GRR. None of the other websites or iPhone apps come close to either of those.

Typed in Chicken Breast, no listing. At least on the demo. Can't even really use the product to test it out if it doesn't even have a basic chicken breast in the list.

Sigh. Carbs count, calories don't. A semi-starvation diet only drives the body to lower its metabolism, and to rebound once food is available again - this is the yo-yo dieting we've all heard of.

The real weight gain/weight loss is done because of insulin levels, which promote the collection of fat, or allow it to be released (high insulin, collect fat, low insulin, release fat).

What we need is a glycemic index app, and something that pays special attention to carbs. Check out Gary Taubes "Good Calories, Bad Calories", or google for his berkeley presentation "gary taubes berkeley". I've lost 40 pounds eating more food that I ever did and reducing my exercise regimen significantly - and my cholesterol numbers are better.

I don't know why you would buy any application when sites like www.thedailyplate.com are completely free and have a huge database of product information.

Bought the app today. It's suffering from a heavy case of being 1.0, and I hope it takes off from that soon.

Now, on the topic of food intake, I've yet to find a single resource listing SubWay sandwiches to actually ask me what I put along the basic stuff (you know, lettuce, tomato, olives, peppers...) and give me a somewhat correct calorie number

I would never use a food tracker that wasn't online. I want to be able to enter my food at work, at home and on the go.

I've gotten pretty obsessive about losing weight, so at the bachelor party I attended this weekend I was entering everything I ate at fitday.com and I was making sure I didn't drink more than my allotted amount of calories.

It's tough, let me tell you!

What a horrible application. You have to create a folder for every day & meal. Calorie King while butt ugly at least functions correctly. Calories is good but you can't track exercise yet in it. I haven't looked at any of the iphones ones becasue there isn't a desktop or web equivalent.

My biggest disappointment w/ all these apps is the lack of ability to share foods. For example, the USDA database that most of these are based on is only released a few times a year and a lot of local foods producers don't make it in there but you can't share it once you add it.