Calorie Count
About.com's Calorie-count.com is a free service for managing your weight.
BACKGROUND
Each of us is an individual, and we like to be treated as such. We're also thirsty for relevant information and desire assistance in managing our weight. About.com has been a long-time trusted resource on the Web. The company launched a site called Calorie-Count.com (and recently expanded with Calories-Count Plus). This is an online community where you can create your own account, free of charge, to learn about eating well, exercise, managing your weight and networking with others just like you. Calorie-Count.com is jam-packed with valuable tools and resources to guide you on a successful path.
PRO
Service is completely free
Nearly 600,000 members
Subsidiary of About.com, owned by the New York Times
Online diets have much success
Does not promote any one diet
Content provided by diet/nutrition professionals
Members have access to tools like calorie counter, nutrition facts, recipe swap and exercise routines
CON
- Some critics say the forum and message boards can contain misinformation and mislead members
DIET and NUTRITION
Being that Calorie-Count.com is focused on helping you monitor calories for effective weight loss, food is pretty important. There are several valuable tools available to help you along the way.
Food Log Record the foods you eat daily. It will automatically count the calories for you, as well as use this to make suggestions for meals. The Log will not only search out generic-termed foods (grilled chicken), but will also identify popular restaurant and brand name related choices (Wendy's Grilled Chicken Sandwich).
Recipes Search hundreds of recipes from the site's pre-built list, or add your own recipe. The site will analyze the nutrition facts for your recipe as well as share it with the community. Each recipe includes the nutrition facts, an A-F nutrition grade, good vs. bad points and serving size. You also have the option to save the recipe to your account.
Nutrition Facts Review the nutrition facts, including calories, for more than 70,000 foods.
EXERCISE
Calorie-Count.com provides a library of tools and plans to help you achieve success by staying active. There are a number of ways to build a plan to stay active. Some of these options are:
You can follow the pre-built 12-Week Weight Loss Program, created by a fitness and nutrition expert. This program guides you step-by-step through 12 weeks of progressively changing exercises. It incorporates nutrition, as well.
Build your own plan for a customized approach. The template is guided by a fitness expert with a wide variety of options that are sensitive to your experience level.
CONCLUSION
With so many diet and weight loss programs available on the Web, Calorie-Count.com stands out as an impressive competitor. Focused on catering to your individual needs, without gimmicks, Calorie-Count.com provides a valuable and relevant service to its users. Best of all, it's completely free. You'll never pay a single cent, nor will you be hounded by the advertisers.
Calorie-Count.com uses experienced professionals in the nutrition and dieting fields to provide the content found on the site. While the message boards are monitored quite closely, it is still possible for misleading or incorrect information to be posted.
Online dieting has become increasingly popular in recent years. Calorie-Count.com has identified the best parts of this and not only included them, but in some cases improved upon them. With features like the largest free food database on the Web, customized exercise programs, recipe analyzer and active message board, you won't need to go anywhere else to achieve (and maintain) your goals.
Common Misspellings
Calorie Counting, Calories Count, Colories Count, Calorie Cont, Calorie Counts, CalorieCount.com, Calorie-Count.com
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Really opened my eyes and is quite helpful...
I am menber sice march.
It is very helpful to controle my diet.
I lost 16 pound.
need more information about doing this calorie count diet and how it works to log everything u eat
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I LOVE CalorieCount.com I Have been a member since May and it has really helped me loose weight. I don't really consider this a diet so much its more of a life style change. It helps you see what your burning and taking in. Its a great tool to loosing weight and the motivation and support from the community is awesome!!
I have used this website in the past and it helped me focus on what I was putting into my system. If you stick to a certain number of calories per day and excercise 3 or 4 times a week, you will definitely see results.
Everyone seems so jazzed but I didn't lose as much weight as everyone else....any pointers you can give to help me get on track?
Calorie count has really helpful information and the fact that its through about.com and NY Times makes me feel like its really reputable
Calorie count is great - I've lost weight and just got my sister to sign up too!!
Calorie-count.com is a great site. I'd been wanting to get back comfortably into my body mass index range, with CC.com I was able to see the numbers I was taking in compared to what I was expending...with some expert guidance as well. I lost close to 40 lbs and achieved my goal.
calorie-count is awesome!! I love the support that you get on it and with it being free...what do you have to loose?!
CC.com is awesome, their'sis the best support system a dieter could ask for....and its FREE!!!
I lovev CC i have lost 15 pounds since i have counted my calories!! :)
This site is great. I'm thinking of checking out the plus version
Calorie-count.com is great. the site is a little cluttered, but there's tons of great info there
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