My Food Diary’s clean, sleek-looking site is refreshing. As a member, you can easily log in from the home page or get access to the site’s resources with a simple click of a button. There are certain tools you’ll like going back to at MyFoodDiary.com. For one, there’s the His & Hers Body Log wherein you can monitor the results of your weight loss efforts by tracking your body parts and fat percentage. The summary table will let you see how many inches, percentage points and pounds you’ve lost.
There are also weight loss calculators on the site that will let you compute your ideal weight, waist-to-hip ratio and BMI. An advantage of this site is the tool that lets you estimate serving sizes. The Recipe Builder is an innovative piece that lets you know the nutritional content of your meal by simply entering the raw ingredients. That way, you get to track how much of which nutrients you’re getting and ultimately, you’ll learn which recipes are best for your weight loss program.
So if the site is this good, it ought to come with a price tag, right? Exactly. Membership isn’t free. However, for a mere $9 a month, you get access to all these tools, resources, tips and advice.
To improve your chances of getting good results from using My Food Diary, honesty is the best policy in updating your food logs.
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Now more than ever, Americans need to lose weight. More than half of the population is reportedly obese or overweight, thanks to calorie-laden food and a lack of a good nutrition plan. If you’ve decided it’s time to make a change on your lifestyle and diet, it may be time to start choosing the best diet plan. If only it were that easy.
The problem with too many diet plan choices
When weight control and diets are easily two of the most common topics around, you’d think that it would be a breeze to find the best diet plan for you. Unfortunately, that is not often the case. From Atkins to South Beach to the Zone, there’s plenty of diet plans to go around to make everyone look like a supermodel. Continue Reading
Aside from usual side digestive system effects from weight loss pills such as gas and diarrhea, users of Alli should also take note of another side effect – vitamin deficiency.
This is because as Alli reduces absorption of fat in the gastrointestinal system, it also decreases the absorption of vitamins.
So according to Dr. David Westbrock, New Profile Weight Management Center’s director and an endocrinologist, it’s important to also take vitamin supplements while using this diet pill.
If you’d like to learn more about Alli, you might want to read “Are You Losing It?” Alli’s diet book.
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As an answer to lack of education on what’s the ideal portion of food for each person, weight management experts came up with a new tool for weight loss – Portion-Control Dishes.
Dr. Pedersen’s team conducted a six-month study of commercially available portion control plates and bowls in 2004. The plates were divided into sections that marked appropriate portions for carbohydrates, proteins, cheese and sauce, with the rest left open for vegetables.
“The weight loss that we saw in this study is similar to weight loss seen in studies of medications for weight loss — but without the associated potential for side effects and at a fraction of the cost,” Pedersen told CTV Newsnet from Calgary.
The sections approximately totaled an 800-calorie meal for men and a 650-calorie meal for women. The cereal bowl was designed to allow a 200-calorie meal of cereal and milk.
The diet plate has line markings to delineate proper portion sizes for meats, starches and vegetables. The main aim of this tool is to help obese patients control their calorie consumption to improve weight loss results and to control the blood sugar levels of those with Type 2 diabetes.
via CTV
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