I'm a 56 year old electrical engineer. Three years ago I was down to 195 lbs, my perfect weight, and very active and pleased with myself. I don't know exactly how it happened, but now I find myself at 240 lbs and not so pleased. Since I'm an engineer, naturally I prefer the calorie counting method. Last time I wrote it all down, looked up the calories, and did my own EXCEL plots; fatsecret is much less time-consuming.