Today I tried setting the program up for multiple users.

When you select “Create User” from the “Users” menu, the initial user registration window pops up again. Enter the user’s name, birth date, weight, and other vitals, and you’re in business. No problems.

After you create a new user, his or her name appears along with your own in the “Users” menu. To change from your food diary to theirs, simply select the other name from that menu.

As I remember from the documentation, CalorieKing supports up to five users. Personally, I find this an arbitrary limit. Considering this program costs almost $50, I don’t see why I should be facing any limits in the number of users I track.

As you are limited to recording on one computer by the fact that this is a standalone rather than web-based program, it seems illogical that anyone would use the software for any group not based within the same household. No diet support group is going to track all its members with one copy, for example, because the scattered members wouldn’t be able to type their daily intake into the remote computer.

However, there are households with more than five people out there -- I grew up in a family of eight myself. If Mom or Dad is concerned with family nutrition, she or he would have to make a second copy of the program on another computer to enter the last three kids, in violation of the license agreement.

Why create criminals? Remove the limit!