Every little helps

A couple of colleagues have been using MyFitnessPal since June 2013 with astonishing success, having shed almost 4 stones between them in 3 months (it's no magic bullet - they are exercising too), so if you need/prefer a helping hand, you could do worse than investigate.  Create a free account, logon, set your current and target weights, enter your daily food intake and exercise, and your calorific intake VS expenditure is logged to to give you a running total.  There's a forum where you can post to like-minded masochists.  There's even a MyFitnessPal app for Android and Apple devices which include a barcode scanner which will do all the work for you with certain food items.  I entered the stuff I could remember over just two days, and was surprised by the high numbers of calories my "healthy" snacks contained.  I'll be using it over the next couple of weeks and will report back my findings.  Suffice to say, what I have seen so far is very encouraging.