Sparkpeople Review

I'm a size 10 but I've been battling weight my whole life. I was a fat baby and a fat kid and since high school I've tried to maintain a healthier weight but it's been a lifelong struggle.   If I don't exercise and eat right, I balloon up quickly.  The problem is that we frequently eat at good restaurants on the weekends and I'm a sensualist at heart and food and drink is part of that.  I'm also getting older and my metabolism, which was never great to begin with, is slowing down even more so I have to be conscious of maintaining some kind of healthy balance.  And last year, an injury caused me to have to stop exercising temporarily and I noticed my clothes getting tight.  Trying to get back into it was like this great weight pressing down on me.  Then I found Spark People which makes it much easier to be conscious of what I'm eating and encourages me to exercise regularly.  It's got great recipe ideas (We go out on the weekends but I cook at home during the week when my husband and I get home from work at night) and videos showing the proper form for exercising.  It's got a nutrition and exercise tracker and even gives points for tracking all sorts of healthy habits like regular breathing exercises or meditation in addition to daily tracking of calories ingested and burned.  You can read all sorts of health and fitness articles and connect with others who are communicating their thoughts and problems and suggestions.  I take a few minutes every day (most days) to check in and I've found that it really helps me.  Recently, a study came out that said if your friends are overweight you are more likely to be, too.  But we all know it can be obnoxious to have to listen to someone who sounds like they're obsessed with weight loss, too.  You won't find that here, it's just a lot of real people that offer support and expert advice where and when you want it.  If you want exercise and diet plans, you can get them.  If you want support, you can get it.  If you just want to create a checklist to encourage yourself and not deal with anyone else, you can do that, too.