SparkPeople - Emmy's favorite website

Emmy has found a great website for tracking your diet and exercise called sparkpeople.com. I think Lana is now using it, too. She can probably explain it better, but you enter in what you have eaten that day by simply searching for the foods. The website has info for a number of foods already, but if they don't have the food on there, you enter in what you know about the ingredients in terms of fat, calories, etc. This fat, calorie, etc. information is then shared across the website for others to use. 

For example, Emmy made borscht the other night and when she entered it in, there were roughly 20 different borscht recipes to pick from. She could have entered her own guess for how many fat, calories, etc. her borscht has, but all she had to do was simply select the one that was nearest her own. (And if they have borscht, they've gotta have lots of other stuff, too.)

It takes Emmy about 10 minutes each day to do this. I think most people can find that time if they really want to track their diet. Emmy has been tracking her diet like this for the last couple months and this, combined with exercise, has helped her lose weight at a healthy rate of 1-2 lbs per week.