MyFitnessPal

I purchased a one year subscription and I would never do auto renew but they charged me anyway and won't work to refund even though it was cancelled as soon as I realized they charged me again.

New update is terrible! So much more difficult and time consuming to log your food. Switching to another food tracker.

Without the my fitness pal app I doubt I would have had the success I've had in losing 60 lbs and keeping it off for over 2 years now! Theres nothing this program cant do! I track my food, exercise, get support from my friends, can adjust it to meet my specific nutrional needs. It has an extensive data base of all of the foods I enjoy. It syncs seamlessly with all of my devices and other health programs. Sincerely, thank you. I went from being extremely sick and unhealthy to strong and fit!

I have used this site to calculate different calories in food, not for the reason of losing weight but due to the fact that I am diabetic and have fibromyalgia. By using their calories counter I can plan my meals more effectively. I can calculate how many calories each exercise will burn and adjust to not worsen my conditions.

The site is compatible with my Fit bit and the communities you can join allow you to take better care of your health. They have been around for 13 years and I have witnessed the site improve over this time period.

For someone who understands how difficult it is to enjoy a healthy life, this site aids me in enjoying my life.

I have used My Fitness Pal for several years and it has served me well. That being said, recent "improvements" (according to the developers) to the ap haven't actually improved it. It's a bit more cumbersome now and is, well, clunky. Again, for a free ap, it does the job. My only WARNING would be to carefully monitor the calories/nutritional information members add. It is often INCORRECT. If nutrition is important to you, this can be an issue. For example, I looked up nutritional information of a popular coffee chain Chi Tea Latte. A member had logged it in at 10g carbohydrates. Not bad! Until I looked at the website of the coffee chain and found the drink was actually 45g of carbohydrates. Drastic difference! Just saying, be careful of accepting any nutritional information on My Fitness Pal.

Who doesn't have a few pounds to lose?

Fortunately, I've never been more than 25 pounds overweight in my life. But as a petite woman, that extra weight has really been a drag and losing it has been hard. I was on Weight Watchers for a few years, but after a while I found that it just stopped working for me. I got near my (realistic) goal but somehow just couldn't attain it.

Somewhere along the line, I found myfitnesspal.com. My husband and teenage daughter are also using it. Right now we have all decided to go "low carb." My husband has insulin resistance and his doctor told him that low carb may be the key for him (he has already lost 13 lbs). I wanted to try that tact, too. I remember that years ago, before Weight Watchers, I did have success keeping the weight off if I just didn't eat too many carbs.

Well anyway, myfitnesspal is not a diet website. It is merely a way for you to track what you eat everyday, and your exercise or activity. You can be on whatever type of plan you want, and track it on this website. You can also track specific things such as the amount of sodium you are eating, saturated fat, cholesterol, and other criteria. They also have a smartphone app that you can use when you're not at your computer.

The website is very easy to use. Thousands and thousands of foods and brands are already in their database (and if not, you can enter something, yourself). If you tend to eat the same thing for breakfast every day, you can "copy to today" so that you don't need to enter the same thing all the time.

You can enter recipes and either keep them to yourself or share them with the entire myfitnesspal membership. You can also "friend" other members and let them see your food diary and recipes. I have "friended" my husband and daughter, so that they can easily copy the nutrition information from the dinner I made.

In summary, I really like this website. It has its drawbacks (sometimes members enter erroneous food information) but overall I have found it to be extremely helpful.

Oh, and did I mention: it's totally free!