The FastDay Forum

I'm just finishing fast 3 (Skinny Monday became Skinny Tuesday this week due to a birthday celebration yesterday)

It feels a bit tougher this week, but I'm hugely encouraged by a 3lb loss at my first week's weigh-in. We had guests at home and had some really huge dinners in between so I was amazed.

I have decided to invest in a new set of electronic scales, and wondered if anyone could recommend a calorie counting book?

I have become the portion control police!!!

I use MyFitnessPal (Free online calorie counter) to count and track calories. I like it because it has a big database of Supermarket foods as well as the basics. Some things have been added by users and are wildly wrong, but they are easy enough to check

I'm a fan of MyFitnessPal too.

the hugely better Calorie Counter by Carolyn Humphries is the one that I use.

I'm a real dinosaur and like to use pen and paper to note down weights of ingredients as I use them. I then use the calorie counter pages at the back of The 5:2 Cookbook by Angela Dowden to calculate how the meal is progressing calorie wise. I have tried using The Food Focus and MyFitnessPal but find them too long winded for me.......my iPad was getting very messy too!!!