FitDay Reviewer's Comments
With its well-designed features and friendly interface, FitDay is an excellent choice for tracking your weight loss program. In addition to the ideal complement of logs—food, activity, weight and measurements—FitDay offers a mood log for a new layer of analysis. With FitDay’s innovative features, weight loss tracking can be efficient and surprisingly enjoyable.
FitDay tracks more variables that may affect your progress than any other program. Food and nutrition, metabolism (activities), and weight/measurements/mood, all have their own modules. Each can be customized and all include automatically generated informative charts.
Food is divided into the Food Log and the Food Explorer. You will record your food selections, see nutrition information for each selection, and view the day’s summary in a variety of ways. Food Explorer allows you to customize the food database to better reflect your eating habits and goals while streamlining the entry process.
The Activity module is designed in the same way: a log and an explorer. With an extensive list of activities and variations on some like running to reflect degrees of exertion, you will have an accurate estimate of your metabolism.
The Weight, Measurement and Mood logs offer detailed areas for these factors. Charts are generated automatically and displayed to track your progress against your goal. FitDay is one of the only programs to include a detailed mood module.The
Calendar gives you a quick look at all of your activity for each day of the month. Icons make it easy to see your progress and the last column is a summary for the week. You may choose to display calories and macronutrients in text or as pie charts.
You can generate your own reports to fully analyze every aspect of your weight loss program: diet, nutrition, metabolism, activities, weight, measurements and mood. Choose to see calorie breakdown in the following ways:
- A pie chart showing macronutrient breakdown
- A table showing average daily intake of all nutrients
- A food label with detailed nutrient analysis
- A graph of your nutrient intakes as a percentage of RDA or of Daily Value
- A pie chart showing your intake of various types of fat
Similar charts are available for activities, measurements and trends.
Bonus Features
- The mood screen offers preset descriptions for happiness, stress, anger, energy, clarity, hunger and health. The face will change to reflect your entry: blue eyes for calm, red for stressed!
- Click on an icon in the Calendar to see a popup summary report for diet, activities, weight, body measurements and mood.
- Faced with a food choice? Try the Nutri-Search Tab to get a list of foods high in the nutrient you want.
Ease of Use:
Screens and functions are consistent across all modules. You’ll enter food information the same way you enter exercise activities. Clearly labeled tabs indicate the detailed views available to you. FitDay automatically generates informative charts to capture your information. Easy navigation, streamlined entry and automated displays make FitDay easy to use.
Help/Support:
FitDay starts off with a convenient welcome screen giving a synopsis of each module’s functions. The integrated help is useful and complete. Screenshots are included with the friendly how-to instructions. For more detailed information, visit online help. You can access FAQs or submit a specific question using the online form.
Summary:
FitDay is an excellent choice to support a weight loss program. It is well designed, comprehensive and does most of the analysis work for you. If you love to see your progress on paper FitDay will be a powerful motivator as you work toward your ideal weight.
