Food and Exercise Diary for Windows 
New software review.
By Sarah cpt

How many different on-line sites have you tried in order to get help tracking your nutrition, your weight, your exercises; get graphs showing your progress, etc? I know I’ve tried a good dozen of them. Every time, I’m let down by at least the nutrition part, the food-lists being too huge and the one little, natural ingredient I seek is drowned in all their processed “cousins”. I give up; I attempt to get out of the site, permanently. There is usually no “erase account” button and I end up having to send mails to the “contact us” section who invariable defend their program and tell me to give it one more chance, until I have to get almost nasty at times for them to erase my information once and for all!

After months of this, guess what my feeling were yesterday, when we received a request from “some guy” wanting us to put a link to his diet and exercise tracking website! I almost sent it straight to the deleted items folder, I must admit. But, I am curious of nature, and thought he deserved the benefit of the doubt. I mean, we do get a lot of weird exercise programs presented to us which are discarded, but then there’s the few percentages that are good. Maybe this was to be a tracking program that was more user friendly?

Well, for starters, once I’d downloaded the program and figured out how to get in and all - we all know I’m hopeless when it comes to computers, but I did figure it out - I was pleasantly surprised. There is no direct fat-loss curve, but within the weight loss section, you can create “loss-titles” and I made one for total weight change, one for pure fat loss, and can also add one for muscle gain in that same section! A terrific improvement over everything else I’ve seen!

I was also asked if I could provide some formulas so that the automatic calculation of BMR and TDEE could be done directly on the site without the members having to whip out their little pocket calculators. I did, so now we wait and see how fast this will be placed into the web site.

Still, the main problem has always been the nutrition. I’m so tired of looking at pages and pages of KFC, McNuggets and other prepares, processed chickens only to miss the one ingredient I really wanted: chicken breast! Grilled, steamed or baked, without any added crap; just the d@^$ chicken! Right, I didn’t try the chicken list today,  but I did plot in the breakfast, and there is a line for Dairy and Eggs. You click on it and get a list over general products, from milk and eggs to other dairy products. I clicked eggs, and up popped a list of white, yolk, whole, substitute, dry … I went with yolk and had the choice of raw, cooked etc, clicking on cooked up came scrambled, omelette, fried … you get the idea. Short lists, one thing at a time, less frustration! Actually, checking the chicken later, it is as simple as the eggs.

Normally I would give this a week’s trial before telling you about it, but I’m pleased enough with this to let you in on it right off the bat. The fact that the creator of the site is open for suggestions on improving the user friendliness and information users need along the way is also a huge plus. Most of these sites are run by people who seem to feel they know it all and that any criticism is a personal attack! Silly of them, because I’ll never tell you to go to their site. After 2 weeks of using this software, I am even more convinced, and I will personally keep using it!

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But I will suggest you check out Tomer’s site for yourself and you can do so right here : http://dietsoftware.atozfitness.com  

The program I was half-way using until now is only good for tracking actual total weight fluctuation and does not reflect fat/muscle ratio. The nutrition part is also too complicated to be worth my time. It’s permanently free unless you want more info and useage, but in any case it’s not an optimal thing. BUT …

This piece of software is so much more efficient ! It’s so simple to use, even I can do it, and you can ask the software programmer and Lewis, they’ll both confirm that I am totally hopeless with a computer program of almost any sort!

http://dietsoftware.atozfitness.com is the link to this new site we are proud to support.

Sarah, CPT
www.trainwithsarah.com
Lewis

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