> The second greatest feature is the food database. MyFitnessPal has fairly accurate calorie estimates for almost anything you’d ever eat. I recorded what I ate

> The second greatest feature is the food database. MyFitnessPal has fairly accurate calorie estimates for almost anything you’d ever eat. I recorded what I ate, every single meal and snack, every single day, and even now I still do it. I’ll probably do it for many years to come. It’s amazingly helpful to stay on track. I did this for about 6 months to a year, and yes, it absolutely works. But it is soooo tedious as to be almost impossible to keep up with. I found that using my fitness tracking watch to measure how many calories I burn while taking daily walks and going to the gym 2x a week was far easier and more rewarding than the calorie counting. I find the calorie counting apps often have a limited database of foods, and if you're eating healthy, and not buying packaged foods as much, you have to enter tons more data, and it's much less accurate because you don't know how much of a given food you're eating unless you measure everything before cooking it (which is also tedious). It works, but not without a lot of effort, which is what turns most people off from losing weight.