I hate calorie counting. Absolutely hate it. Not only do I not want to spend hours doing research for how many calories what sevings equal (not to mention serving sizes), food journaling hasn’t exactly been my strong point either. (I loathe keeping a food diary, though the visual food diary went a lot better.)

So, given how much I don’t like logging thing and don’t like counting calories (in respect to the figuring out what the numbers are, not the acutal numbers), I don’t know what I was thinking when Hanlie mentioned she uses a little thing called Nutridiary and I decided to give it a go.

Now, I’ve tried SparkPeople before, and that turned me off because it’s so busy on the site. I felt a little overwhelmed, to be honest. But not with this one. Nutridiary is so simple and focused – it’s a food diary and that’s it! Sure, there is a forum attached, but you might just as easily miss it.

That’s not to say that what Nutridiary does is simple. Not by any means. Nutridiary is complex in what it offers you on feedback.

The numbers! Oh, the numbers! (Have I mentioned I love numbers?)

This is just one of the ways you can break down where your strengths, weaknesses and overall path are. As you can see, today has been a great day for vitamin C. (I supplement more than most because it helps combat my chronic fatigue.)

They make it so easy to not only find food but to list your own if it’s not on there. It’s also so easy to track everything, but they don’t let it get too complicated. You ate x amount of x at x time. You exercised x amount of minutes doing x at x time.

Too easy.

I still find the whole tracking thing a bit annoying, but with all the feedback I’m getting here, I like to check in to see what I’m getting out of certain foods or see how I’m going if I’m having a day where I feel like I might be eating too much.

Given that I can also track my weight, measurements, water, exercise, etc, I’m thinking I may have finally found my one stop shop.

Thanks, Hanlie!