If you are looking to shed a few pounds, then I have the site for you. myfitnesspal.com is a free site that after registration helps you monitor your fitness and weightloss project, primarily by keeping track of how many calories you are putting in - versus how many you are burning via way of exercise.

When you are signing up for the site you are required to enter details like your current weight, what weight you are aiming for along with how active you are and the usual date of birth etc. Once you have entered all the information you are then ready to go. Once logged in you are met with your home station which displays your essential stats of where you are at the current point in time.

myfitnesspal home page:

From here its just a matter of entering the food that you eat and the exercise that you do into the system. By writing everything down it will help assist you in achieving your goals and the calorie counter will help you judge exactly how many calories you are eating at each meal.

Entering the meals:

Summary
The site is monetized with Google Adsense so no payment is requested from the users of the site which was a pleasant surprise. The advertising is unobtrusive so does not get in the way of letting you get on with the task of improving your fitness. I would recommend this site to anyone that wanted to improve their fitness and/or lose weight as it will certainly help by assisting you to set goals and then help you toe the line on the way to achieving them.

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