Using fitday as a tool

I don't think this is coincidence: I started using fitday.com last week to monitor what I'm eating, if I'm hitting my protein, vitamins, etc. In the 9 days since I started using it, I've lost 7 lbs! My goal for July 7 (four months) was 252 and I'm at 253 right now! I put in everything I eat, all my activity (exercise, food prep, eating, dressing, showering all burns calories and you can input it here--the funniest one is "sexual activity"), I added a range of calories, protein and water that I need to hit and it tells me when I've done it. It can tell you what vitamins and minerals you might be deficient in, it tracks your exercise progress, it charts your weight loss (you can backtrack to your surgery date and chart it) and, best of all... ...it is FREE! If you aren't keeping a journal, this is a great way to do it and it helps! IMPORTANT NOTE: Do not trust the nutritional information that is in their database, if you don't have to. READ AND INPUT EVERY LABEL of food you consume. Sometimes what they have is way off from what I eat. You only have to input a label once and it'll stay in your custom file to get it again the next time you eat. Eventually, it becomes just point and click to get in all your info. Those of you who don't feel you're losing enough, or have hit plateaus, or EVERYBODY who wants to track what they're doing, go to fitday.com. Greg (342/253/178)

I ADORE fitday.com. I learned about it through some friends on the opposite end of the eating disorder spectrum (anorexics) and it's just fabulous. It's weird inputting only liquids in there, though. But I won't be eating any food for two weeks so I may as well keep *something* down.

Hey Greg....Thanks for that tip!! I went to the website, registered and tried it out.... REALLY COOL!!! Thanks again! Pam