It won’t come as too much of a surprise for you to learn that once again, we here at The Daily Plate have unveiled a variety of improvements, upgrades, and brand new features in the past week.

Last week, we launched the already hugely popular fitness tracking, where you can calculate and track the number of calories you burn through your daily activity. Since then, we’ve more than tripled the number of activities you can find and add to your free MyPlate calorie counter — everything from the elliptical machine to horseback riding to yoga to caring for a child. If you can’t find an activity that you do regularly, let us know, and we’ll do our best to add it!

Speaking of MyPlate diet tracking, we’ve had a few requests to tweak our Calorie Calculator. (You can already use the calculator to determine how many calories you should take in per day to maintain or lose weight.) Now, in addition to choosing healthy, attainable weight-loss goals of 1lb a week or 2lbs per week, we’ve added a third option: The “in-the-middle” 1.5lb a week mark. Check out the Calorie Calculator to see it in action!

And, as a thank-you to our users for continuing to use our site, provide feedback, and share it with your friends, we have another subtle change you may have noticed: We’ve removed all the ads from the MyPlate section of the site — which, of course, is where you do all your tracking, calculating, and maintain your profile. Browsing those pages ad-free should make them even more of a pleasure to use, and we’re glad to be able to make that possible.

Finally, one other quick thing to celebrate: We’ve cleaned up a few pages on the site — this blog for example, as well as our message boards, which are steadily picking up in interesting diet discussion. We have several more page makeovers in the hopper, and look forward to rolling them out in the weeks ahead.

As always, we welcome and encourage your feedback. Leave a comment here on the blog below, or post over on the message boards. We look forward to hearing from you!