Is there any defectors from other sites ?

If Americans know one thing, its gathering intelligence and food. Have you seen the average American, they eat a lot of food.

Huh?? Am I the only one the finds this slightly offensive?

not offensive because its true.

I've tried spark people and didn't like it. Also tried Weight Watchers (not online though) and didn't like it either. I love MFP. Sure there are things that could be better, but overall it's a great site.

I joined an Aussie site called Weigh it Up, it is good for folks who want all of their meals planned out for them, without having to do calorie counting, as they are supplied as well as all of the the recipes, but my hubs would not eat half of the food on there, and I'm not going to make 2 different dinners all of the time. I do love the fact that they have a graph of my weight loss journey, which started on their sister site in February, and if I want a bit of inspiration about how far I've come I can go look at it. (36 lbs so far or for us Aussies that is 16.4 kilos) Someone mentioned MFP on one of the forums and I decided to take a look. I love MFP , having my food diary, lots of support and the forums on here are great too. I haven't had any problems finding the food values for most Aussie foods either. -and the fact that this is all free- well what more could you want?

I used to use SparkPeople as well, but it was cluttered and I got more involved with the clutter than my weight loss. I didn't like the food options it gave you if you went with the meal plan they laid out for you. I also spent waaay more time on the site trying to gain points by reading articles and stuff instead of just working out and eating right. this site keeps me focused without all that hooplah!

I was a sparkpeople convert too. Like most people I felt it was just too cluttered. I could never find where I wanted to go!

I can get weight watchers for free through work, and tried it two different times - the first time, I lost 20 pounds in 4 months, then gained it all back during the holidays. The second time, after they changed their points system, I didn't lose a pound.

I gave up on ww and decided to do it on my own and found sparkpeople. I thought it was going to be great, and at first I was excited about the sparkpoints, the daily spin, etc. But I didn't like the calorie range (versus a set amount of calories), I didn’t like their food log, and the site was even more cluttered than ww & had popup ads, which I can’t stand- plus in the end, I found the sparkpoints and daily spin stuff to be annoying.

After sparkpeople, I searched through several different sites, downloaded several different apps on my phone, and ended up not using any of them. Nothing appealed to me…until I found MFP. I’ve only been on this site for about a week, but I could tell the first day that I had finally found something that’s going to work for me. I love the simplicity, the user-friendliness, the HUGE food database, the message boards, everything.

I was on Livestrong (it was better when it was the Daily Plate) but couldn't find nutritional information on many of my foods. So far, I have found EVERYTHING I have searched for or scanned at MFP! Plus, love the Android app.

I totally agree that it was better back in the days when in was "The Daily Plate" That's when I used. I defected shortly after LS took over. Nothing against Lance or his mission...the site just went downhill. =P

I still use Fitday. I signed up for MFP just to see nutrition facts, but I stayed since it tracks sodium.

Did you know that you can track Sodium here too? Food > Settings > Nutrients Tracked: > Change any of them to track Sodium

I came from Sparkpeople. I liked it but am liking this much better. Much easier to use in my opinion. I do still log in there on weigh in days and to help when I am trying to track my bike ride, but for the most part I am a convert.