Myfitnesspal (Mobile Application)

Myfitnesspal is a community powered application for Android, IPhone, Blackberry and most recenty Windows phone. It is mainly used as a diary for your food intake, exercise and it also provide recommendation of calories intake if you want to lose or gain weight. The application is linked to their website http://www.myfitnesspal.com where you could participate in forums and the account in the website and mobile apps is linked so you could also record your progress, food intake and exercise from the website.

I believe the strongest feature on this phone would be its community.The community forum is very active and contribution to the food database is wide  . You could try searching "Hokkien Mee", "Char Kueh Tiaw" and it will come up with detailed description. Here I searched for "Mooncake" and these are the result:

Usually for most application, it will hard to find Asian food so you will have to Google it to figure out the nutrition value of the food and key it in manually.

All of the nutrition taken for that day will be added up and summarised here: It will show percentage of US RDI that you have taken for that day:

Add in your food intake after each meal and snack, and add in your exercise of the day:

 My progress graph (currently I'm 79, down from 85.5 when I just start):

Moar graphs.. man I'm proud of my weight loss so far lol (nett calorie is how much calories you accumulate after minus exercise done for the day.):

 

 You could also link Myfitnesspal on facebook so that you could show (brag) to your friends your workout and weight lost so far

You could set your profile and it will show you your calories goal if you want to lose X amount of weight per week:

 Summary:

Pro : Strong community support, Large food database, Ease of use,Loads of feature, great to use to motivate you.

Con : Apps has some trouble connecting to Internet sometimes (maybe its my phone issue though), would be good if nutrition value is more complete to add in other essential minerals such as magnesium, phosphorus. The food database is sometime missing complete nutrition value too, but I guess this would be improved by the community in time.