Counting calories online

A colleague recommends a web site where she tracks calories consumed and burned. Unlike other similar sites, FitDay.com is free.

"It helps me stay motivated," says my colleague. Her goal is weight loss. The site also helps with nutrition and exercise goals.

I played around with the site to see how it works. Say you ate a cup of Frankenberry cereal with a cup of 2 percent milk. You click those items on the web site, which calculates that you’ve consumed 238 calories. A pie chart shows what proportion of those calories are from protein (15 percent), carbohydrates (65 percent) and fat (20 percent).

Kinda cool.