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The Best Calorie Counting Websites

Counting calories helps you take control of your weight by making you accountable for everything you eat. Using a calorie-counting website is an easy way to keep track of your eating. These sites allow you to count calories, carbohydrates and fat grams without the pain of looking up each food in a book or performing pesky addition.

  1. Spark People

    • Spark People offers a "my nutrition" tool that keeps track of your calories, a "my fitness" tool that logs exercise, and a goal tracker. The site also offers a active forums, motivation-based articles and blog posts, recipes, and a library of workouts and exercise demonstrations.

    Fit Day

    • Fit Day allows you to track diet and exercise using a library of more than 1,000 foods. The free account includes long-term diet analysis, a goal tracker and a detailed breakdown of all the foods in the library. The "premium" account includes additional analysis reports and the ability to custom-track a statistic such as protein intake; it's also free of ads.

    The Daily Plate

    • The Daily Plate offers a library of more than 670,000 foods and 1,500 activities, plus tools to help you figure out an appropriate calorie goal, and "MyPlate Calorie Counter," which tracks food intake and displays calories, fat, carbohydrates, sugar, fiber, cholesterol, sugar and protein, as well as totals in these areas. Users can purchase a gold membership to eliminate ads and add badges, custom goals and the ability to export and download charts.

    My Fitness Pal

    • My Fitness Pal has a database with more than 160,000 foods and allows you to track your calorie intake and calorie burn. The site offers badges for your blog or website, weight loss tickers and "MyFitnessPal Mobile," an app for iPhone and Android. All tools on the website are free.

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