Easy Diet Diary

I’ve tried so many apps including all the most popular ones to track my calories and often given up less than a day or two in. I downloaded this app 3.5 weeks ago and for the first time in my life I’ve been able to track calories and macros with complete ease. I actually can’t believe it’s free. It is so user friendly and so simple. So many apps just have so much unnecessary stuff going on to try and please every possible type of user but if you want to easily track your meals, calories, macros, weight and activity then this is for you. I don’t track my activity so can’t comment on that part. My favourite thing is that you can save your recipes which is fantastic if you meal prep. You input all your ingredients and quantities, the servings, then whenever you have a serving you press one button and your meal is tracked. I also love that you can easily add foods that aren’t in the database so you don’t spend ages going through similar products. All the macros are displayed easily and you can see every day and meal in a quick snapshot. It’s exactly what I’ve always needed. My only feedback would be to have an option to add a meal that you can’t track. For example if you go to a friends house or you eat at a restaurant or cafe. It would be great to track that somehow, like meal name, calories as a unknown, and then that’s displayed somehow on the bar graph like a different colour for that day or something, so you know the calories and macros for that day are unknown? I’m not really sure. But other than that, it’s perfect!

Much better than calorie tracking apps I’ve used before. You can use your stored list of recently eaten items, sorted by breakfast, lunchtime etc, and can add that food again to dinner or another meal with a different amount. Can input by standard serving, by weight, by ‘large apple’ peeled or unpeeled, as 3/4 of a serve. Really flexible. Has lots of the brands you fond in Coles or Woolies listed with fibre etc. Your own recipes are easily added and it works out fibre etc. If you eat an unusual brand, say of muesli, you just input it one to the ‘my foods’ section, using the nutritional info on the pack, and then it’s stored ready to use. Tracks exercise and weight. Tells you how many calories are in each thing you’ve eaten at each past meal, so you can see where your calorie ‘budget’ is going. Keeps track of how many you have left to eat based on the target intake you set. Also total fibre etc for the day. Really happy this takes the calculating and looking up pain out of calorie counting. Now I just need to stick with it. Keeping those fibre numbers high should help.

You can log the food you eat in grams which is a fantastic option as you can log the exact amount that you have eaten. You can even log milk you add to coffee etc in grams so you don’t have to measure it separately just sit it on the scales, zero it and pour in the milk. You can also set a target per day in calories or kilojoules. It adjusts to allow you more calories if you exercise. You can also log your water intake too, all for free. I have tried to use ‘Lose it’ and ‘My fitness Pal’, they are fine if you know how much of a serving you have eaten. If you make a lot of your own foods they are useless as you don’t know how much is a serving unless a recipe lists it. You also have to pay extra to log water intake on ‘lose it’. The only addition which would make it even better would be if you were able to scan barcodes. You can now scan barcodes. Now that you can do that it’s perfect. This is an updated review. Overall a very good app that is helping me to lose weight.