Sparkpeople.com Review

SparkPeople is by far one of the best online communities I have ever come across!  Perhaps the best notable quality is that it is ABSOLUTELY FREE.  You don't have to pay anything!  From the very beginning of my membership, I was getting advice on ways to incorporate healthy eating into my lifestyle.  They stressed getting plenty of fruits and veggies and drinking 8 cups of water.  DAILY.  NO MATTER WHAT!  There are plenty of tools to log foods eaten and other goals (like getting enough sleep, certain types of exercise, and even spiritual things like reading a Bible chapter or having silent time every day).  There are blogs, articles, and news stories to review.  There are exercise videos to check out.  And perhaps one of the best features is it's social atmosphere of creating your own profile and joining groups.  It's a great way to make friends who share the same goals, and we can support each other and cheer each other on!  I initially joined it a few months ago to get points for some online point/survey site or other (I can't even remember which one now) but have been thorougly impressed and have stuck with it!  I'm actually feeling pretty good in my body again, and my husband has started seeing me differently (not that he didn't always think I was beautiful...).  This is definitely something I would recommend to anyone looking not only to eat healthy, but learning how to create and maintain a generally healthy lifestyle.