Posted on Monday, 2nd November 2009 by oildrops
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Brand DietPower
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4 out of 5Besides counting calories, our diet software shows nutrition facts for 21,000 foods, plans menus, tracks calories burned in exercise, charts body measurements, doctors recipes for healthy weight loss, delivers personalized nutrition news and features, lets you meet weight watchers online, and more...
A godsend.
-- Fitness
Turns your PC into a nutrition counselor.
-- Wall Street Journal
I've lost 65 pounds with Diet Power. Now I recommend it to my patients.
-- Paul Huser, M.D.
The only diet software proven effective in weight loss.
-- Runner's World
Diet Power is the best way to lose weight I've ever seen.
-- Consumer Electronics ....read more
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Posted in Health Fitness, Healthy Choices | Comments (5)
November 6th, 2009 at 12:00 am
Diet Power WORKS for those who are serious…
Rating:4 out of 5 stars
If you have reached the point where you are serious, where you have determination and conviction, to follow any diet program… then Diet Power is the very best I have found. I find that when I use it regularly as a powerful guide to keep me on track and focused, it works like nothing else.
The nutrients / vitamins / minerals tracking is wonderful. Talk about help to get on and stay on a WELL BALANCED diet! This part of the program alone is a powerful tool. I find that I get sick less often when I use it and pick those foods where I fall short (as well as cutting those foods where I over-do).
The graphs are great for seeing progress (or lack of it). Overall this is a motivating program to help stay on track IF you use it.
I do not input any exercise, I figure any exercises I am doing is “extra credit” (I go in streaks with activities) and it’ll show in my resulting weight loss / health without entering them in the program… but to record my exercise and thus have the program allow me more calories for that day (because I burnt some in the exercise, and if recorded in the program, my daily calorie allowance is increased to reflect those I spent in the exercises.. if that makes sense to you lol), well that has not been productive for me, the last thing I need is to think that I can eat more if I spend a 1/2 hour on the treadmill, I like seeing continual progress and not logging my exercises actually helps me to stay motivated. I don’t feel down on those days when I don’t exercise. I figure why put myself in a situation where I may feel that I have failed in any given day just because I didn’t do it “all”. I use the program just for diet and nutrition.
The only part that can take more time than I like, is entering in my own recipes so program will record the nutrient values and portions properly for that recipe. I like to try new foods, so I find myself punching in “recipes” a lot, and those creations I make on the fly as I’m cooking… But I do take the time because if I stay true to the program then I know I’m as healthy as I can be and I feel it. Diet Power is a fantastic tool, but remember, books/dvd’s/programs don’t lose weight, people lose weight… with determination and conviction you will do well and Diet Power can help you greatly
) Good Luck!!!
November 7th, 2009 at 12:00 am
Great program and super easy to use
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
I love this program! I have also used FitDay which is a very good program, but not as good as Diet Power. Diet Power has the Water Minder and Nutrition Quotient which are great! The Diet Power website also has some great help files, but I didn’t need very many because the program is pretty self-explanatory.
I have lost almost 40 pounds in 6 months, but I also plan on using this program after I meet my goal so that I can learn what I need to do to maintain my weight and eat and exercise properly. It only takes about a total of 5 minutes a day to enter your food intake and exercise, so I don’t think that is too much to ask for having a healthy weight.
November 11th, 2009 at 12:00 am
Diet Power WORKS as long as you do
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
I have been using Diet Power on and off for the last 3 years. The first time I used it I dropped 50 pounds in about 6 months but it was NOT EASY. It takes discipline and lots of working out. I am not by nature a disciplined person, so it took some getting used to. Truth be told, I gained it all back because I stopped using Diet Power and got into old habits. I am now working on losing it again, and am down 15 pounds over three weeks.
Diet Power does not do the work for you, and the information you get from it is only as good as the information you provide. It calculates your Metabolic Rate (which is also the number of calories you must consume to maintain your current weight). It then provides you with a calorie budget that is well below your metabolic rate. As long as you log your food faithfully and honestly and stay within your calorie budget YOU WILL LOSE weight. It is based on scientific fact.
I will admit the program takes some getting used to, and if you plan to use it seriously, invest in a food scale, because you need to be very precise. What I like about it is that it doesn’t judge and it doesn’t restrict any food.
While in a sense you can “Eat anything you want” you do need to stay within your daily calorie budget. You will quickly realize however that while you CAN eat ice cream for example, if you do, you will use up your calorie budget VERY fast. But if you have a sweet tooth and cant live without a scoop of Ice Cream, GO FOR IT! It won’t kill you and as long as you stay within your budget, again, YOU WILL LOSE WEIGHT!
Its not a miracle. Its not a gimmick. Diet Power works, but you have to do the heavy lifting.
November 12th, 2009 at 12:00 am
Not for Weight Watcher’s but has some good features
Rating:3 out of 5 stars
I downloaded the trial version because they said on their website that it worked with the Weight Watcher’s diet and many other diets. When you fill in your profile, it has a place to mark which diet you are using, but that is about as far as that goes. There is no way to add point values to food, therefore no way to track your points. So it was useless for my particular needs.
However, out of all the programs I have tried, it was the easiest to start using. They have easy to follow videos on their website to help you get started. I also liked that it tells you when you are low or high in a certain nutrient (compared to the RDA). It would have helped track my chronically low magnesium, iron, and vitamin A.
If you want software to track your calorie and nutrient intake and suggest your daily calorie budget, I think this would work really well. It does not, however, do all they suggest.
November 14th, 2009 at 12:00 am
Not That Good
Rating:2 out of 5 stars
A very complicated program and does not work well for someone who is a vegetarian vegan. Received a CD only, not even in a box. No instruction book. I feel I wasted my money. Have not figured out the program and have given up. Bite the bullet in this purchase. Do not recommend.