6 Free Websites For Losing Weight

by pante

One of the reasons I've been successful with losing weight is that I take the time to plan my meals for the week to make sure I'm within my calorie range.

I need structure even though I loathe it. I keep a book in my purse that tracks calories, fat, protein, carbs, exercise and more.

However, sometimes I get lazy and I don't want to write down everything I eat or how long I exercised so I needed to find an website that would track everything with a click of a button.

I wanted a site that was easy to navigate and was free and below are six websites that I found that can help you lose weight along with a list of a few features.

Calorie Count

• Diet profile test
• Calculator to determine how many calories needed for your goal weight
• Food, activity, and weight log
• Connect using cell phone
• Over 100,000 foods and over 300,000 recipes in data base
• Recipe analyzer  
• Create 12 week exercise plan

50 Million Pound Challenge

• Provides editable 30 day meal plan
• Weight tracker and goal weight calculator
• Join a team
• Log in exercise time

Fat Secret

• Tracks calories, fat, carbs, and protein
• Tracks exercise
• Join challenges
• Recipes and recipe creator

Diet TV

• Tracks calories, carbs, fat and protein
• Exercise and weight tracker
• Water tracker
• Review diets
• Videos
• Suggests a diet such as the Raw Food, Biggest Loser, Dr. Phil, and 3-Day Solution diets based on answers

Daily Burn- Basic Membership

• Tracks calories, fat, protein and carbs
• Create workout program
• Join challenges
• FoodScanner iPhone application $.99
• Recipe creator

SparkPeople

• Recipes
• Recipe creator
• Track exercise and create an exercise plan
• Meal planner
• Tracks calories, fat, protein, carbs, water, calcium and over 30 more
• Support groups
• iPhone, Google Android, Blackberry and iPod touch free applications 

Do you use any of these?