My Fitness Pal is the featured free fitness site of the week. This site is very similar to Sparkpeople because it provides an easy online free food and fitness diary. It makes it easy to keep track of everything you eat even when you go out to eat, because you can choose your meal from a list of common restaurants. It has nutrition facts on over 441,000 foods! It also has a physical activity diary where you can choose between a list of exercises and input personal data and it will compute an approximate amount of calories burned.
This site also encourages you to network with other people to keep you accountable. They have downloadable "badges" to place on your blog/emails/etc. that state how close you are to your goal. I don't know about you, but if I was trying to lose weight, having it broadcast to the world would probably motivate me.
The most interesting tool that this site has to offer is its free iPhone application. This way if you are out and about all day, you could easily document what you have eaten or what physical activity you have completed. That way as you contemplate getting that gigantic piece of chocolate cake, you could see whether that is an ok choice for the day, or not.
Also remember, if you are exercising to lose weight, help feed the needy by recording your pledge online. Read about it here.
Feel free to visit my past posts reviewing these free fitness websites:
Map my Run
Couch to 5k
Yoga Today
Livestrong
Women Workout Routines
My FitnessPal
Military Workouts
Exercise TV
SparkPeople
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