Diet Tracker
Those that know me know that I love Palm OS and have been using Palm top PDAs for over 10 years now. Ever since the “axe gravy soup” Newtons in fact. Anyway you also know I have struggled all my life with being overweight. I also have a Diabetic intake of no more than 45 carbs per meal. In the diabetic program they want you to eat more smaller meals per day (6 really) but that’s overkill for me. My A1C is typically less than 5.9 which is great. So anyway mix all this together with weight loss and I often have strange or complicated food intake requirements. So I went looking for a program on my Palm (which is now a Clie NZ90 by the way) which could track these factors for me. At first I wanted also to track my daily blood glucose readings but that’s less of a concern for me now since I no longer test my sugar daily as long as I eat correctly and I pretty much have that down pat. I found a host of palm apps. that track this kind of thing but for now I have settled on two applications that seem to meet my needs without being overly complicated. Simple Calorie Tracker (freeware) and Diet Tracker (shareware). SCT is a very simple program with no built in databases but enough logic and tables to get the job done. You create your own food (with categories if you want that) with it’s estimated calories. SCT tracks what you have eaten for the day and also what exercise you have done so you can see a “net” result of either the excess calories you did not burn or your calculated weight loss. Both programs start with your goal based on calories per day and expected weight loss rate (typically 1-2 pounds a week). Diet Tracker does however let you choose between tracking fat or carbs in addition to the calories consumed. I am interested in the carbs of course but not for weight loss only for my diabetic intake so I chose fat tracking. It’s the first day on Diet Tracker so I will update more after I have used it a while. The price tag is about 15 bucks.