I encourage anyone who wants to count calories to use www.thedailyplate.com. I have used other websites before but after a few days of excitement I gave them up. With our busy schedule, the most important thing about a calorie counting site becomes its user interface. It should not take you more than a couple of clicks to find and record what you put in your mouth. Also many of us eat at least one meal and a couple of snacks outside. It is essential for these websites to have a comprehensive database of what you get in food chains and gorcery stores. The daily plate sports all these features in the most usable form that I have seen. It allows me to enter my exercise calories and calculates it into my goal calorie intake automatically. It is also possible to add your own custom food. One other thing I like about it is to give you the list of what you have eaten recently. Eating is one of those phenomena that conform to the temporal locality princinple. Meaning that if something is eaten recently, the remainder of that package is stored in your fridge and there is a high likelyhood that it will be devoured again in the near future; hence the usefulness of this favorite food lists.
Now the good news about my FTP progression: I was riding along and I saw a local time trial going on. Apparently these folks hold that everyweek and I was just about on time. I asked if I can do it as well and they said yes (it cost 5$ though). So an hour into my endurance ride, I did some quick pickups around my threshold power and entered the end of the line. Off I go as the last rider on a 15Km somewhat hilly route which I wasn't familiar with. It looked to be a fast crowd as most rider had TT bikes and full kits (skinsuits, disc and deep rims, booties and aero helmets and bottles, pretty much nothing was missing). Anyhow, I managed to reel two riders in and averaged 330Watts (normalized power 333Watts and VI=1.01). My speed was not amazing (only 40Km/h) which shows what a horrible CdA I have on my road bike! Anyhow, I am going to set my FTP to a new value of 316Watts and that bumps up my power to weight ration to 4.21
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I also just started using The Daily Plate to track calories. It is simply awesome.. way ahead of other comparable sites in terms of ease of use and an extensive food/exercise database.
The last thing you want to be doing when entering calories is "guesstimating" and creating custom entries for the majority of what you eat. What a pain! The food database at The Daily Plate is just HUGE, which really facilitates the calorie counting process.
I'm a cyclist turned triathlete this year, and I'm focusing on getting my weight down for improved running as well as power to weight. While I do have some fat to shed, I am mostly "over-muscled" due to body type and past weightlifting.
Hopefully this tool will help...
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