Shrinking - weight loss tracker

This site was actually pretty neat.  You can enter your weight on a daily basis or whenever you want, and you can set weight goals based on a certain date.  The dashboard feature charts your progress graphically, and tells you where you are in relation to your goal. 

The part of this site I found most interesting was the food diary.  You can enter what you eat on a daily and it calculates your total fat, calories, protein, etc.  Then you can enter your exercise and activity each day and it calculates calories burned.  You can then view your food calories and your activity calories in a calendar, and it calculates your net calories each day so you can see where you went over and where you were under.

The website also includes a journaling feature to write comments, and has functions to easily allow you to connect to your Facebook page or Twitter account if you want to let others know how you are doing. 

This site was pretty easy to set up - my computer seemed to freeze a lot at the dashboard screen, but that may be just the age and functionality of my computer.  It's very time consuming to enter your daily food as you have to enter each item one at a time, and it uses a built in Search feature to find what you are looking for.  It is pretty good with commercial and brand name items, but obviously if you're eating homemade items it gets difficult as you have to enter all of the ingredients and estimate your portion.  But I found that there are usually reasonable substitutes and their database is quite large to be able to find the items if you take the time. 

I would recommend this website for anyone seriously watching their weight, or if you just want to get an idea of your food intake to activity ratio.  I think I will use it for a while longer to further assess the value, but it's worth checking out.