Calorie calculator websites

[BarryG]

I am a person who has been skinny all of my life and didn't give the slightest thought to how many calories foods had. Whatever it was, I ate it as long as it didn't say "diet" on the label. Now, somewhat ironically, I am looking at labels to find foods that I can eat that have the highest number of calories and protein, fat is good! In my "Quest for Calories" I have found a few online calorie calculators and I thought that I would post them here in case other forum members might find them useful. The best one is:
http://ccm.about.com/
which allows me to calculate how many calories and protein a particular food has. I enter this into a spreadsheet and have calculated that my morning smoothie gives me about 700 calories and 20g of protein. My total caloric intake with four boxes of formula and all of the food that I can still eat is almost 3200 calories. I have gained over 4 pounds in two weeks and 15.5 pounds since my peg tube placement.
Two other calculators that I use are:
http://www.freedieting.com/tools/weight_gain_calculator.htm and http://www.freedieting.com/tools/calorie_calculator.htm
These two calculators that can be used to figure out how many calories you need and how many to take in to gain weight. I still talk to my ALS clinic dietitian about my diet but these tools help me keep her happy.

[thelma313]

Yay Barry! I am really happy to hear that you have gained over 15 pounds! Keep it up. You are a star. :)
Hopefully one day a chubby star ;)

[kedevlin23]

fitday.com - you put in your food and a graph appears at the bottom that tells protein, carbs, etc...pretty good and I feel like they have a good database of foods already, but you can also create a custom list too.

[LauraW]

Wow, thank you Barry. I have been looking for something like this.

[LauraW]

How in the world do you get 3200 calories in you every day...I can't even get 2000 in mom. If I give her too much she says her stomach hurts. Please share.

[BarryG]

Laura, the formula that my dietian started me on as soon as I got my PEG is called Resource 2.0 made by Nestle. It comes in a 237ml (approx 8oz) tetrapack box that supplies 480 calories (about double what Ensure Plus gives for the same size) and 20g of protein. I am now taking 4 of them per day so that gives me 1920 calories. When I add my 700 calorie smoothie and whatever else I can choke down (chocolate Boost pudding, etc) I get over 3000 calories per day. I get the formula supplied through a government program here and so I don't know how hard it is to obtain or how much it costs but it is worth it if you can get it. It has sure helped me, I figure if I have to take formula it may as well be as good as I can get.

Barry

[tdamess]

way to go ....keep up the good work. .... about.com is a very good site it is where i learned all about the thyroid around my friends and family i am know as the thyroid queen ,,,,lol

[KeeKer]

Thanks Barry for the sites. Helped me alot. Need that info for Ray. Looks like I was not feeding him enough!Ooops!

[LauraW]

Barry,
Oh, Mom is not able to tolerate any of the caned formulas. I actually have cases of stuff that I would love to pass on to someone. Her insurance has already paid for it. She cannot eat anything by mouth. She has gained some weight though since I have been liquifying food with the vitamix. I can usually only get about 2000 though. Her stomach gets too full.