Keeping a food diary is probably a very good idea for many reasons. The problem is that it can quickly become a big hassle to track everything you eat especially if you have a busy lifestyle.

TweetWhatYouEat.com (TWYE) is a website that allows you to create your own food diary to track what you eat and the number of calories consumed. The application allows you to post updates from your phone, IM or the web. You can also search the food database to get calorie information.

How does it work? Here is the how-to from TWYE:

Tweetwhatyoueat is a Twitter user just like you! On Twitter, the web app Tweetwhatyoueat.com is the user ‘TWYE.’ The magic behind this site works the following way:

• You make friends with ‘TWYE’ through Twitter. Simply tweet or twit ‘follow twye.’
• ‘TWYE’ then makes friends with you. In order for that to happen, you must follow the setup steps.
• You then send direct messages to TWYE with the food items you’ve eaten like this, ‘d twye yogurt cup.’
• Tweetwhatyoueat.com regularly checks for direct messages sent to TWYE, parses them, and stores them as part of your diary.

In case you aren’t familiar with Twitter - it is a social networking service that allows users to post updates called “tweets” which are displayed on the user’s profile page and are also instantly delivered to other users who have signed up to receive them.

I don’t personally use Twitter but a lot of people do and this may be handy tool for those of you who are watching what you eat.

via [fitsugar]