Service Overview for weight control FatSecret

Target selection

When you first start FatSecret ask you to select one of three goals: to lose weight, maintain your current weight or to gain weight. In the future, the service will provide you with the information necessary to achieve the selected target. You will know approximately how many calories you consume, and how to change your diet in order to achieve the desired results.

Adding parameters

FatSecret adapts to the individual user settings. Therefore, after selecting the target you will need to provide your age, gender, height, lifestyle (eg, active or sedentary), as well as the actual and desired weight indicators. On the basis of these data services will calculate the rate of DGC (the recommended daily amount of calories), you must adhere to.

accounting calories

When the service tell us about yourself, you can move on to the substantive work with FatSecret - permanent fixation consumed and calories expended. For these purposes, it is the tab "Blog". Opening it, you'll be able to add products and pieces that you used for food during the day. Or exercise and other activities that you were engaged. The system will be translated into all the calories.

The database project contains information about the calories in food products of famous brands, as well as dishes of major restaurants. This information is used when calculating FatSecret and allows you to not make unnecessary data manually. Find the right product, the product or dish, you can use the built-in directory or search form.

The service is available in the form of websites and applications for mobile devices. So you can enter the data at any time and in any place. An arrangement of elements in the browser-based and mobile version is a little different. But having mastered any of them, you can easily orient in the other.

Tracking progress

If you regularly and properly enter data about calories, you will only have to make sure that the number coincides with the RAC. If you notice the difference, it is necessary to adjust the chosen diet.

For more control, you can periodically make the results of weighing the tab "Weight", which also displays a graph of weight change. Observe the dynamics of calorie can be on the tab "Reports".

FatSecret may deter beginners abundance parameters and not the most intuitive interface. So you have to spend some time to explore the center. But every minute udelonnaya repaid with interest: you get a convenient and effective tool for weight control. In addition, completely free.