I thought it would be good to have a thread on the tools we find useful to share with newcomers.

Here are some:




Diet related software:


Nutritional Analyser (free)
apinchofhealth.com/forum/vbb/showthread.php?p=82009


Daily Planners


Nina's Spreadsheet
apinchofhealth.com/forum/vbb/showthread.php?t=2647

Clair's Spreadsheet
apinchofhealth.com/forum/vbb/s…10354-Clair-s-Spreadsheet


Food Databases
Remember american nutrition information in their databases and on their labels include fibre in their carbohydrate totals.
Australian nutritional information doesn't.


Dietclub-Australian
dietclub.com.au/foods/

Food Standards Australia
foodstandards.gov.au/thecode/nutritionpanelcalculator/

Nutrition Data-American
nutritiondata.com/index.html

Carb Counter-American
carb-counter.org/




Shopping Planners


Pensulls Shopping Planner
apinchofhealth.com/forum/vbb/showthread.php?t=3549


Calorie and PFC Calculators


PFC Calculator
phlaunt.com/lowcarb/DietMakeupCalc.php


FitDay, Includes a food database but remember it is american which means fibre has not been deducted from the total carbohydrate counts unlike Australia label, databases etc...

fitday.com



Weightloss Trackers:


Jim's Weekly Weightloss Progress Spreadsheet
apinchofhealth.com/forum/vbb/showthread.php?p=93314


Easy weight graph
apinchofhealth.com/forum/vbb/showthread.php?t=2215

Chicken Legs Progress Spreadsheet
apinchofhealth.com/forum/vbb/showthread.php?t=4516

Books:


The Low-carb Diet Tracker:

apinchofhealth.com/forum/vbb/showthread.php?t=3902

Lowcarbiseasy Interactive Cookbook:

apinchofhealth.com/forum/vbb/showthread.php?threadid=1890


Research Tools


Pub Med
pubmed.com/

Nutrition and Metabolism
nutritionandmetabolism.com

Cochrane
cochrane.org

Medscape
medscape.com

Some low carb research
lowcarbresearch.org/lcr/results.asp


Other Calculators


Hydration Calculator
bottledwater.org/public/hydcal/input1.html


Bodyfat Calculators


linear-software.com/online.html



Google Docs & Spreadsheets

Free web-based word processing and spreadsheet program
docs.google.com/

Updated the links and reuploaded the attachments in the related threads, Enjoy!

Added a cool spreadsheet from another forum. It is a searchable food database with carb counts and can be sorted by the different Atkins stages.