Had this since it was first developed and it was always a great tool. Especially paired with Nutrition Data which has disappeared from the internet. Best nutrient search tool ever when we had it. Cronometer is good for logging and knowing what you consume.
What was it about Nutrition Data that you liked so much, and what was it that made it complementary to Cronometer? I'm a software developer, if I understand what made it uniquely useful, I might consider reimplementing it.
The guy who wrote it lives in Arizona. Sold it to conde nast and they eventually took it off the internet. It used the usda as data base and had various tools to search. You could find foods highest in ________, or lowest in________. Also highest in x AND lowest in y. Had many other features. Looking at one food entry would show all the nutrients-ALL, it had a little summary of what was good, very good, and not good along with info on glycemic index; then a colorful chart of where it fell on nutrient density x satiety. You could probably contact him. It was hugely popular. His wife has a fitness business and he created it for her business to be useful to clients. Think his name is Ron Johnson.
Cronometer helped me create the diet to eat like a robot to hit all nutrient targets, and my Micronutrients Panel seems to back this up with most serum and intracellular nutrients within optimal range. I’m really looking forward to my Bio-Opt Report from you next week!
Had to LOL at the robot comment...I keep wondering if Cronometer is turning me into an orthorexic! I become a bit obsessed about meeting all nutrient needs at the end of the day.-Like how I used to obsess to get to the target number of steps per day by jumping on the treadmill at 10 PM😂
I've changed Chronometers rda recommendations to ones in Chris's cheat sheet's. I hand picked data about nutrient amounts for women for every vitamin, mineral etc. It would be nice, Chris, to have them all in an updated table somewhere.
It' s really simple. Just go settings --> nutritient targets. Then select vitamin etc. you wish to modify, slide the 'custom'-bar and input your preferred targets 😊👍
I just started using it last week and had a few shocks. Using the low precision method, I assumed I was eating enough calcium (buttermilk & cheese every day) - apparently not. And low in vitamin A and E. Thanks for all the tips. As you said, you need the baseline info and from there it is easy to modify your diet and see the changes reflected in Cronometer.
When I saw the calcium deficiency I was wondering what the 'ideal' calcium level was based on (in Cronometer). For example, my total calorie intake was in the 1600 a day range, and I was wondering if the ideal calcium level was set for someone on a 2000 a day calorie intake.
I have used Cronometer (probably years ago briefly), but for some reason have stuck to the Fat Secret app. Have you tried Fat Secret before? Any thoughts on how it compares to Cronometer? Thanks!
Great. Guess what. I had purchased the gold for a year some months ago and promptly entered nothing until just yesterday! How timely. While supposedly I am to eat minimal protein and fat I always felt like I never ate enough protein and too much fat. I saw this new diet called 30-30-30 where you eat 30 grams of protein within 30 mins. of waking up and then you exercise for 30 mins. I happened to see the Post cereal on sale that has 20 grams of protein per cup so I bought 2 boxes. I’m sure the ingredients are crap but you add some yogurt and you can get close to 30 grams with minimal effort. I’ll probably look for some other way of obtaining protein that is not too fattening and better ingredients and so Cronometer will come in handy. Plus I really do need to track my intake. My only issue is I eat small quantities of many different things because it’s around. I did notice years ago when I used MyFitnessPal that I spent so much time entering that it slowed my eating and I did lose weight. Also one time I did Viome and I entered it all into a spreadsheet and it took forever and I lost weight too. So there are benefits to tracking. Just not on vacation. Thanks to Chris for the encouragement!
So I created an account with Coronometer after reading your post. And then filled in all the things I consume during a day. Wow - super interesting! According to the results, I do not get enough calcium, sodium or protein! This definitely warrants more investigation and some tests. Really glad you shared this tool! I might write a post about this myself, and if so, will reference your newsletter. Also restacked this post btw. One thing missing from the results however, was iodine. Hope they will add this to Cronometer at some point. Anyways, thanks a lot for sharing.
Is there a way to contact Chris Masterjohn about my subscription? I have written to support and chrismasterjohnphd.com and to this substance, no replies so far. When upgrading to paid with the recent special offer, the discount was not applied.
I'm not sure what's the best way to use chronometer with home bulk cooking. I cook 1 to 2 big pots of dishes and take portions out of them through the week. Do I need to be measuring when I'm throwing in half a leftover bell pepper while cooking, and also measuring how much I'm eating when I serve? How do you measure how much butter on toast when you smothered an "adequate" amount? 🤔
There is a recipe function on the app you might want to try. It's a bit of a pain to enter quantities-(and yes the leftover bell pepper needs weighing as well).
Example:Lentil soup with ground beef---
1. Weigh the lentils, the water and the meat separately (not including spices)-cook-
2. Tare scale with container you will store the pot of lentils in, add your whole pot to it and record the weight of the whole recipe-store.
3. To eat, tare your scale with the plate you want to use and weigh the portion you want to eat from your recipe and record it either in grams of as fraction of the recipe.
The thing about logging your actual intake, what do you do with the information? Are you supposed to compensate from one day to the next any time you fail to comply with your own plan? No, all you can do is make a good plan, but a spreadsheet will do as well especially when you KNOW there is wrong data in SR28 and it has to be overridden. I use optimization across the entire food database and have discovered dozens of good foodstuffs that I would never have included by choice (think beef liver, or chicken liver) . Also I can design any constraint I want including ratios and integral constraints. The big downside is that it's complicated as hell ...a work in progress
If you subscribed in substack, it should be very easy to find in your profile. If you subscribed prior to the migration to substack, contact support at chrismasterjohnphd dot com for help.
I use Cronometer religiously. I bought the Gold Lifetime Membership many many years ago. Obviously I love it dearly and find it very useful for my ongoing experiment.
Would love to see you and Michael Lustgarten (YouTube Channel: Conquer Aging Or Die Trying) collaborate. He's been track everything in cronometer since 2015.
Had this since it was first developed and it was always a great tool. Especially paired with Nutrition Data which has disappeared from the internet. Best nutrient search tool ever when we had it. Cronometer is good for logging and knowing what you consume.
What was it about Nutrition Data that you liked so much, and what was it that made it complementary to Cronometer? I'm a software developer, if I understand what made it uniquely useful, I might consider reimplementing it.
The guy who wrote it lives in Arizona. Sold it to conde nast and they eventually took it off the internet. It used the usda as data base and had various tools to search. You could find foods highest in ________, or lowest in________. Also highest in x AND lowest in y. Had many other features. Looking at one food entry would show all the nutrients-ALL, it had a little summary of what was good, very good, and not good along with info on glycemic index; then a colorful chart of where it fell on nutrient density x satiety. You could probably contact him. It was hugely popular. His wife has a fitness business and he created it for her business to be useful to clients. Think his name is Ron Johnson.
I'm currently building something adjacent to this for supplements.
Sign up for the beta https://supptrack.app
I've found MyFoodData to be a decent replacement, missing some features but it's good enough for me.
Thanks. Very helpful.
I loved Nutrition Data as well!
Cronometer helped me create the diet to eat like a robot to hit all nutrient targets, and my Micronutrients Panel seems to back this up with most serum and intracellular nutrients within optimal range. I’m really looking forward to my Bio-Opt Report from you next week!
Had to LOL at the robot comment...I keep wondering if Cronometer is turning me into an orthorexic! I become a bit obsessed about meeting all nutrient needs at the end of the day.-Like how I used to obsess to get to the target number of steps per day by jumping on the treadmill at 10 PM😂
I've changed Chronometers rda recommendations to ones in Chris's cheat sheet's. I hand picked data about nutrient amounts for women for every vitamin, mineral etc. It would be nice, Chris, to have them all in an updated table somewhere.
But I don't go by general RDA numbers myself.
Tiina:
This sounds great! Mind sharing how to do this in the app? Do you need the paid version to do it?
It' s really simple. Just go settings --> nutritient targets. Then select vitamin etc. you wish to modify, slide the 'custom'-bar and input your preferred targets 😊👍
I just started using it last week and had a few shocks. Using the low precision method, I assumed I was eating enough calcium (buttermilk & cheese every day) - apparently not. And low in vitamin A and E. Thanks for all the tips. As you said, you need the baseline info and from there it is easy to modify your diet and see the changes reflected in Cronometer.
When I saw the calcium deficiency I was wondering what the 'ideal' calcium level was based on (in Cronometer). For example, my total calorie intake was in the 1600 a day range, and I was wondering if the ideal calcium level was set for someone on a 2000 a day calorie intake.
I have used Cronometer (probably years ago briefly), but for some reason have stuck to the Fat Secret app. Have you tried Fat Secret before? Any thoughts on how it compares to Cronometer? Thanks!
Great. Guess what. I had purchased the gold for a year some months ago and promptly entered nothing until just yesterday! How timely. While supposedly I am to eat minimal protein and fat I always felt like I never ate enough protein and too much fat. I saw this new diet called 30-30-30 where you eat 30 grams of protein within 30 mins. of waking up and then you exercise for 30 mins. I happened to see the Post cereal on sale that has 20 grams of protein per cup so I bought 2 boxes. I’m sure the ingredients are crap but you add some yogurt and you can get close to 30 grams with minimal effort. I’ll probably look for some other way of obtaining protein that is not too fattening and better ingredients and so Cronometer will come in handy. Plus I really do need to track my intake. My only issue is I eat small quantities of many different things because it’s around. I did notice years ago when I used MyFitnessPal that I spent so much time entering that it slowed my eating and I did lose weight. Also one time I did Viome and I entered it all into a spreadsheet and it took forever and I lost weight too. So there are benefits to tracking. Just not on vacation. Thanks to Chris for the encouragement!
Short and sweet
So I created an account with Coronometer after reading your post. And then filled in all the things I consume during a day. Wow - super interesting! According to the results, I do not get enough calcium, sodium or protein! This definitely warrants more investigation and some tests. Really glad you shared this tool! I might write a post about this myself, and if so, will reference your newsletter. Also restacked this post btw. One thing missing from the results however, was iodine. Hope they will add this to Cronometer at some point. Anyways, thanks a lot for sharing.
Is there a way to contact Chris Masterjohn about my subscription? I have written to support and chrismasterjohnphd.com and to this substance, no replies so far. When upgrading to paid with the recent special offer, the discount was not applied.
I'm not sure what's the best way to use chronometer with home bulk cooking. I cook 1 to 2 big pots of dishes and take portions out of them through the week. Do I need to be measuring when I'm throwing in half a leftover bell pepper while cooking, and also measuring how much I'm eating when I serve? How do you measure how much butter on toast when you smothered an "adequate" amount? 🤔
There is a recipe function on the app you might want to try. It's a bit of a pain to enter quantities-(and yes the leftover bell pepper needs weighing as well).
Example:Lentil soup with ground beef---
1. Weigh the lentils, the water and the meat separately (not including spices)-cook-
2. Tare scale with container you will store the pot of lentils in, add your whole pot to it and record the weight of the whole recipe-store.
3. To eat, tare your scale with the plate you want to use and weigh the portion you want to eat from your recipe and record it either in grams of as fraction of the recipe.
Toast: weigh before butter then add butter....
The thing about logging your actual intake, what do you do with the information? Are you supposed to compensate from one day to the next any time you fail to comply with your own plan? No, all you can do is make a good plan, but a spreadsheet will do as well especially when you KNOW there is wrong data in SR28 and it has to be overridden. I use optimization across the entire food database and have discovered dozens of good foodstuffs that I would never have included by choice (think beef liver, or chicken liver) . Also I can design any constraint I want including ratios and integral constraints. The big downside is that it's complicated as hell ...a work in progress
Hello,
I would like to cancel my master pass and can not find where to do it. Can you direct me? Wayne
If you subscribed in substack, it should be very easy to find in your profile. If you subscribed prior to the migration to substack, contact support at chrismasterjohnphd dot com for help.
I have been using Cronometer for at least four years. I do find it more precise, useful and faster than writing a food diary.
Great tool!
I use Cronometer religiously. I bought the Gold Lifetime Membership many many years ago. Obviously I love it dearly and find it very useful for my ongoing experiment.
Would love to see you and Michael Lustgarten (YouTube Channel: Conquer Aging Or Die Trying) collaborate. He's been track everything in cronometer since 2015.