Count Your Calories via Text Messages!

There is no reason to leave your diet when you leave your computer! We're excited to announce the launch of our free SMS service, allowing you to check your calories with a Text Message.

Simply text message "food" and your search to 432584 ("HEALTH" on most phones), and we'll text message back the basic nutritional data. For example, try:

food caesar salad

food french fries

food asparagus

food anything!

If you've never used text messages before, just click here - we'll send one to your phone. If you do know how to text, then get started immediately by sending an SMS to 432584 ("HEALTH") with the following message:

Food [enter the name of the food here]

For complete information and additional directions, see our new CC Mobile page.

Please let us know how you like it and if there is anything we can improve!

It's great to get the calories by text, but not really useful if we can't log them.  If I'm not near a computer, I find it's almost a deterrent not to be able to log and too confusing to keep both the computer &  a handwritten notebook.

I went from the text message to the website by clicking on the included link.   Adding an "add to log" button on the mobile website is the #1 best improvement you could make.

#2 would be making the tagged items more accessible (since I've got your attention, I might as well make my suggestions now.)  It drives me crazy that I can't change the quantity of a tagged item before adding it to the log and you could cut the time it takes to log in half if the tagged list appeared right on the page with the log so you don't have to keep changing windows.

Still, this is the best calorie counting program I've found.  Thank you!

is this feature free

We don't charge anything, but your carrier's fees might apply depending on your SMS plan.

Will this service also be available for those of us who live in Europe?

I am in the Netherlands.

Is there any way you guys might consider making an iPhone application for this? I would totally pay $5-10 as I'm sure many other people would if there was a program I could add to my iPhone so I can enter my daily foods there. Right now I usually use the 3G network to go online and enter it, but sometimes that takes awhile to load some of the pages on here and I would love an application for CC!

This is a great feature!! The iphone now has a calorie counter and I always have to ask my roommate to look food up for me when we're out! Now I have my own.

Tessa- from bettyconfidential.com

It's really fast too!

I love it.  Thank You so much.

love it! way cool and fast!