How to Use Online Tools to Count Calories

Determining the calorie count of each and every food you eat can seem like an enormous task. But it's essential for any dietary program to get an accurate daily calorie. Websites such as my-calorie-counter.com can make this job easy by counting each calorie in your food diary for you.

Difficulty: Moderate

Instructions

1. Create a food diary. No calorie counting system, no matter how well put together, will help you if you don't remember what you ate so you need to keep a food diary even if you're going to use online tools to count your calories. The food diary can be as simple as a small spiral-bound notebook then just write down everything you eat each day.

2. Consider going hi-tech. Taking the food diary concept to the other extreme, you could opt to type what you ate into your Palm Pilot or laptop. You could then enter it directly into your online food log at the website instead of copying the food choices from your notebook.

3. Step 3: Use one of the calorie counting websites. The Daily Plate on LiveSTRONG.com has calorie information for all your favorite restaurants and many different foods as well. They also have a place online to enter your calories burned through exercise.

4. Set up an online account. Some websites have a monthly or yearly fee associated with using their online calorie counting tools, but some do not. My-calorie-counter.com is a free service and pays for its operations through advertising on their website.

5. Keep track of your activities and eating habits and enter them into your journal and using the online calorie counting tools. This is the best part of having an online food journal because the calories are added up for you.

Resources

• The Daily Plate

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