Hi, I have had great success using a website called www.fitday.com. in many ways, its a little basic, and not terribly intuitive. However, it has the ability to look up and track the calories that you consume and expend every day; track your weight change, and a modest list of other reports. Since its free, and on-line, I find it useful.

Here is my question for you, my fellow bandsters, for this poll:

Do you use Fitday.com?

What other sites do you use?

Please share them with us, along with the features, benefits, costs, if any, and of course, their web address.

Thanks!! Brad

Yes, I use fitday.com. It's a great tool and it keeps me honest about my food intake.

I love fitday. I also use fittogether.net to track measurements.

I track my calories on fitday - everyday for 3 months now. It helps alot, escpecially to hold myself accountable when I eat a hershey kiss or two or three - It all adds up. Right now I am eating about 1500 cal. per day. I would really like to get that down to 1200, but I need to make better food choices!

I started with fitday.com but downloaded their desktop program, called FitdayPC. It's only $20 for fitday.com users, and it's WORTH EVERY PENNY. It does a lot the online version can't do, and makes it much more pleasant to track my intake (read: I do it more often).

The best feature of FitdayPC is that you can enter and save custom foods, either by recipe, nutrition label info, or ingredients. I have custom foods called things like "turkey sandwich lunch." Online you had to enter all the items individually, every time.

It has a lot more functionality in general, lots that I don't even use. I highly recommend it!!

I use it and love it!

I wanted to vote, but none applied to me.

My vote would be "I don't track my calories, I DO exercise."

Thanks for the fitday information. It is very useful!

I use sparkpeople.com and highly recommend it. I tried fitday, but dodn't like that I could save my own foods, and it was a bit hard to navigate. Spark people is perfect for me - I have my own personalized food section or I can choose a ready planned menu, track my weight, measurements, exercise, and other life goals. Check it out, after all, it is free!!!!

www.sparkpeople.com

Hope you like it!

~cheri

Thanks Cheri,

sparkpeople is indeed a less complex site! Very easy to navigate. Thanks again for the information, I really appreciate it!

I wanted to get the fitdaypc, but I may check into the sparkpeople as well....thanks

i love and use fitday.

This is all very good info, I think I may reconsider my current choice which is the weight watchers point system. Although it is a bit quicker to track, i'm affraid it's not accurate enough.

off and on. i don't use it everyday. seomtimes i even skip a week, but i am ALWAYS counting in my head EVERYTHING that goes in my mouth. it is very helpful to have a record of it though.

I paid for fitday but I dont tend to log in. I did it in the beginning, then went without logging for months. I am trying to get back on track, have been writing down all my food and am ready to get it on fitday to see how I have been doing.

I don't use Fitday or any other online tracker.

I have a great program for my hand-held/PDA. It's called balancelog and is easy to use. 99.9% of the time it has every food item I could ever dream of putting in my mouth and if it doesn't, I can program it in. I can log my Water, exercise, weight, body fat analysis and resting metabolic rate. It helps me know where I stand, nutritionally. Because it's in my PDA, it's portable and with me at all times.