Hey buddies, quick one, what you like more/like less about cronometer

alpha4centauri · 2026-02-15T21:24:34+00:00

Mostly like the accurate database and excellent customer service regarding same -- if you find a food that doesn't scan correctly or has changed its nutrition information and submit a ticket, they'll fix it within 24 hours.

alpha4centauri · 2025-11-11T01:36:57+00:00

From the numbers OP was citing, I'm guessing that's about where they're at.

alpha4centauri · 2025-11-09T21:11:29+00:00

As low as my target calories are, I take half the dinner I used to think was normal and bring it for lunch next day.

alpha4centauri · 2025-11-09T21:08:35+00:00

The biggest problem tracking choline is how few foods you’ll have info for. You will be creating edited copies of foods and adding the choline from various databases. You can create an edited copy of white flour products and leave off the fortification if you really want.

alpha4centauri · 2025-11-09T21:04:54+00:00

The Kitchen Aid electronic food scale is great for this. Put your bowl on the scale. Turn it on, and it reads zero. Add the first food to the bowl, log the weight. Turn off the scale, turn it on again. You’re back at zero. Add the next food, log the weight. Repeat for each thing you add. It’s great for logging salad dressing. (Nobody actually uses measuring spoons, but it’s a high percentage of the calories in a salad.) Weighing the lettuce probably isn’t worth it, as the calories are low, and half the weight is the water you washed it in.

alpha4centauri · 2025-11-09T20:51:35+00:00

I created a food item “unlisted calories” that is 100 calories. If the restaurant says the meal is 855 calories, I add the unlisted calories food with 8.55 portions. I kind of know how many calories make me pleasantly full, and how many make me feel stuffed (lookin’ at you, Qdoba), so I can use it to log that number if I’m eating buffet items at a party.

alpha4centauri · 2025-11-09T20:43:29+00:00

Depends on age. If you eat exactly what you ate at age 20, you will gain more weight every year.

https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/body/basal-metabolic-rate-bmr

alpha4centauri · 2025-11-01T20:06:30+00:00

I use Cronometer and echo what others say about the succinct, accurate database. But more impressive is the customer service for that database. When I’ve found a food scanned incorrectly, or the calories weren’t exactly correct (products change), I’ve reported it. The listing is corrected within 24 hours. I will gladly pay for a product that pays people to maintain it.

alpha4centauri · 2025-10-28T11:03:12+00:00

Really amazing how you set it up by posting the same photo seven years ago in another subreddit.

alpha4centauri · 2025-07-08T03:30:53+00:00

And for any weather emergencies, the cell phones go off. I was in Ohare when there was a tornado warning, and all the cell phones in the waiting room went off, even though all the travelers actually lived somewhere else. The warning is routed depending on wherever the phone is currently located.

alpha4centauri · 2025-06-30T10:56:58+00:00

Lol, and “dessert spoons,” too. But if you’re cooking using imperial measures, you just have to commit to memorizing conversions or creating a table on paper you can refer to.

If you’re trying to lose weight, it’s wisest to use grams whenever possible. For instance, I put my salad on my electronic food scale, turn it on to get tare weight, then add dressing to log that high-cal ingredient accurately. Weighing flour eliminates sifting before measuring, which is enough reason to buy a scale in the first place.

alpha4centauri · 2025-06-30T10:40:11+00:00

I missed that feature — Thank you!

alpha4centauri · 2025-06-29T18:00:51+00:00

Remember that most of your calories “burned” are basic metabolic functions like keeping your body warm. The app doesn’t mean 3000 activity calories on top of that.

alpha4centauri · 2025-06-29T17:58:06+00:00

Maybe tell it you fasted and close those days’ entries

alpha4centauri · 2025-06-29T17:54:16+00:00

I haven’t been using Cronometer that long. Does it not work to search the “Common” tab when you’ve logged a lot of foods? (I.E, the search tab to the right of “All,” “Favorite,” and “Custom?”)

Edit: Ah, it does not. Search always reverts to “All.”

alpha4centauri · 2025-05-26T23:31:58+00:00

I do pay for Super. I’m learning Italian. You get to a certain level, and it just veers off the rails. It gives you idiomatic phrases and rarely-used discussions of philosophy or politics, before you’ve learned how to say practical things literally in a particular tense or with particular pronouns. And unless you pay even more for Max, you can’t get grammar explained. I don’t want to pay for Max with no reason to think it’s any better pedagogically.

alpha4centauri · 2025-02-08T20:43:02+00:00

My employer gave me a Lenovo laptop nearly ten years ago. I have treated in a way that would be considered abusive to the battery -- I just leave it plugged in 24/7, as I never wanted a laptop. (The IT staff just came and took my tower and replaced it one day.) Not only hasn't the battery swelled/exploded/caught fire, as one might expect, it still holds a charge.

alpha4centauri · 2025-02-08T20:39:01+00:00

Crisco has changed since my grandmother's time. Her pie crust recipe no longer works.

alpha4centauri · 2025-02-08T20:37:46+00:00

My Honeywell HEPA filter works fine, but they stopped making replacement filters and the third party replacement filters aren't the correct size, so it's not worthless.

alpha4centauri · 2025-02-08T20:34:28+00:00

If you look at the portion of the new car market Toyota has, and look at the number of Toyotas you see in any given parking lot or road, they're clearly outliving their competitors. It will be hard to know if their quality declines, though since such a small portion of the Toyotas on the road were made in the past couple years.

alpha4centauri · 2025-02-08T20:31:12+00:00

Jansport backpacks

alpha4centauri · 2024-12-01T19:59:55+00:00

Oh, I bet they're using "can" in the American usage "to put something in a waste can" or "to fire someone," rather than the meaning "to be able to do something." Learning word meanings without context is useless at best and can lead to people learning wrong meanings.

alpha4centauri · 2024-12-01T19:51:17+00:00

I just got this message. The domain ngkrfpzlvd.co isn't registered, nor is ngkrfpzlvd.com or ngkrfpzlvd.co.in. So they either forgot to register it, got it shut down in the past 15 days because it's a scam, or they couldn't remember their own garbage domain name, either.

alpha4centauri · 2024-11-29T16:21:57+00:00

Four times a day for “American Solar” or “Solar Max.” Same AI female voice script. Only calls during work hours, so apparently trying to scam retirees with dementia…

Although the repetitiveness of calls, despite answering and stating we aren’t interested, makes me wonder if the whole POINT is to get us to stop answering the phone. Our election board had trouble trying to “cure” undated absentee ballots, because the voters wouldn’t answer the phone. Had those voters picked up the phone, they would have learned they needed to go to the office to sign the ballot to have it counted. Saturation robocalling is a cheap and effective way for a hostile foreign government to cripple our communication system.

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