I have the app in my droid phone which I always carry on me. It is great for tracking calories, and excercise. I love it!

I know there are going to be times I want to use it on my phone (like yesterday), but it froze up and then took me back to the start page. :/ I have a blackberry tho, someone commented it did the same on her BB.

I don't have a problem on my droid. I have another app that is strictly for calorie counting as well, it's called calorie counter. You can input a food you ate in a search like say an english muffin, and it will look up the calories for you, and you click I ate this today and it will log your calories. Maybe you could try this one?

Thanks! If this one doesn't work out, I'll look for that one. (I pulled the battery, sometimes one or two times of that fixes blips ;)

I love the website too. What I most loved about it, was that I could generate my own cooked food labels with calories and so on. I cook most of the stuff from scratch and that was very useful feature. You just type in your recipe, split it up for portions and then save for future use as well.
It was also very eye opening that I do not get enough calcium in my diet. I struggle with that all the time, as I do not like to take supplements.
I should go back and start using it regularly. Another useful feature, they have regular tracking of common things in your diet but you can modify it and add additional things to track. Great site :)

Thnak you so much for telling us about this site. I've bookmarked it and I know I'll make good use of the information offered.
I love that I can get nutritional information on my original recipes.

Thanks again!

I registered for Spark and will try it; I'm already using myfooddiary.com, and I pay 10$ a month for it, So far, I find myfooddiary more user friendly than Spark, your usual foods get stored in your "fridge" , and it's faster to fill out the daily food diary.

If Spark works out for me, I'll stop my paying food diary.
But after trying to enter my 4 breakfast items on Spark, I'm not finding it easy to use, but that may be the learning curve. I'll try again later.

I weigh myself every day so it's nice to track your fluctuations over a year.
I don't panic if I go up a bit because I can tell that it happens occasionally ,
the important thing is that it makes me more cautious about my cravings for the next few days.

I also use myfooddiary.com. Super easy, I like that you can copy the food from a previous day which is really helpful when I tend to eat the same breakfast everyday during the week. I'm trying to keep my fat intake below 20% and protein above 35% and it tracks these percentages well.

But after trying to enter my 4 breakfast items on Spark, I'm not finding it easy to use, but that may be the learning curve. I'll try again later.

There's a learning curve, I've only just begun, but it gets better with staying with it. When you click "Add a food", which leads to search foods, if you can't find what you want, be sure to tick under the lower far right of the search box "search food shared by other members" (that's a gold mine). Then once you find the food in the search results, click to highlight. (This is the step where you'd add it to your meal.) But below the search box you'll "Add to Which" (meal). Just under that is a little box you can tick to "Add to Favorites". Then you don't have to keep looking for the same things. From then on, when you click "Add a Food" and get the search screen, you just click the large "Favorites" tab at the top & that's where they are stored.

HTH, I'm very new myself! And I found the demo videos (which I hate to watch) really did help. They're only a couple minutes long per step.

thanks for the info, and I'll take the time to watch the videos.

I've been using it for a couple of years now. It is a great way to keep track and see what you're really eating. It does have a learning curve to figure out how to best use it.

I have most of my recipes in there that we use now so it is easy to add foods as well. I often have the whole week filled out ahead of time as I only grocery shop once a week and have all meals planned out. This also helps keep me in check with what I'm eating.

I need some... I don't know what. I gained a freaking pound and a half my first week. I wasn't white knuckling it with sticking to food, but was definitely far more conscientious. And I've cut out on the 'comfort' food (evening sweets) I was leaning on while mourning my mom's passing and amped up the exercise (which I wasn't doing any of because I felt like a slug). Mostly right now I'm trying to get a handle on where I'm at nutrition-wise so I can tweak it. It's been very eye opening.

I had lost a pound in about ten days per my MD's scale, but I didn't count that because I wasn't trying, get water weight fluctuations (thank you perimeno) and had only been using SP program a few days on my follow-up visit to him. Regardless, my overall total for one week is up 1.5 lbs? My progress graph is going the wrong way...waaaah :(

Did you gain weight from increasing muscle tone?

Kind of doubt it, I was focusing on cardio to start. My B.P. is up some (from all the stress of recent months probably). My M.D. put me on a water pill to lower BP and for fluid retention (hormones again). Maybe that's the problem right now, water weight?