Overview of Calorie Counter Food And Exercise Diary for Windows

Which Weight Loss Software Is The Best
 Among All The Ones That Are Currently Available?

Dear Friend,

Selecting the right weight loss software can very well be the difference between succeeding in your weight loss or not, and even in a few cases, where the software tells you what to do, such as the weight loss software telling how many calories to consume, you can end up in the hospital.  Selecting a weight loss software is therefore very important.

There are about 9 different, competing weight loss software on the market today.  You can see most of the them if you search for "weight loss software" on Yahoo.com or Google.com.

What is common to all of them?  All these web sites are like a fashion show:  buy me because I am prettier and I have more colors in my screen-shots and because I have more options.  This is not the way to select a good weight loss software.

A good weight loss software needs to be as easy to use as possible but without losing functionality power. 

Basically A Good Weight Loss Software Is A Weight Loss Software,
 Which Without Compromising Functionality,
Someone's Dad Or Mom Should Be Able To Use. 

If a wiz kid is the only one who can figure out all the functions, then the weight loss software won't help you.

There are two basic phases to a weight loss software:

1. The user enters the food that he or she ate with the exercise preformed into the software.

2. The software performs analysis and reporting on the food that was entered that help the user greatly with making decisions regarding his or her weight loss program that he or she is following.

There is a third category that some software packages have added which is extremely dangerous to you.  Namely, that #3 the software tells you what to do in order to lose weight such as what foods to eat, or how many calories to consume, or how much to exercise.

This #3, the software telling you what to do, is very dangerous because the software can be telling you to do things which are very dangerous to your health! 

A weight loss software is not a doctor or a dietitian or a fitness instructor.  There is no replacement for good education regarding losing weight.  The only reason why these software developers have added the functionality of where the software tells you what to do is to increase sales-copy, add "neat" features, and hopefully increase sales.

A software program does not know your health, it doesn't know your physical ability, it doesn't know about the medications you may or may not be taking.  It doesn't know about your metabolism, it doesn't know about your capacity for exercise.  It doesn't know about your past injuries, or blood condition, lung, heart and overall body condition, or your history of them.

To tailor a weight loss program for someone, at the very least the person wanting to lose weight should know about his or her own health, and plus follow a good weight loss program in addition to an aiding weight loss software. 

In the average case, a doctor or a dietitian or a fitness instructor needs to intervene in order to account for all the variances you might need in your own personal program.

Most people that want to lose weight are not in their youth, and therefore, they necessarily have personal conditions that a software cannot account for.  More than that, is that even a doctor cannot quite fully shield you from dangers of weight loss even while monitoring your progress as you go a long.

Weight loss is not a joke.  The entire body goes through changes during weight loss.  You should never count on a software that will "tell" you what to do because you can end up very sorry for that.

The first step to weight loss, is to read a good book about losing weight.  There are crazy, crazy diets out there today.  So select carefully.  The best weight loss program are basically natural.  They don't involve pills, which are seriously dangerous to your mental health.  The best weight loss programs don't involve gadgets to make you lose weight. 

They Best Weight Loss Programs Involve Some Exercise
And Good Eating.  The Body Does The Rest!

First select a weight loss program.  Then you need to read about that weight loss program.  Do not go to programs that tell you to eat or drink certain chemicals.  These are dangerous.  For instance, there is SlimFast, a program that is incredibly unhealthy and dangerous.  Even if the program is popular, you need to be very careful.  SlimFat and Atkins and many others are simply dangerous programs.

I Know You Want To Lose Weight Desperately, But Don't Hurt Your Health! 

There will come a time that you will be very sorry if you have hurt your health just to lose weight.  Don't jump on the quick solution, it will get you into problems now and in the future. 

Nothing in life that is quick is healthy or good.  All the things that are good come with an effort.  So does healthy weight loss.

First select a weight loss program, then select an aiding weight loss software.  Notice I wrote an aiding weight loss software, not a weight loss software that tells you how many calories to eat.  If you select a weight loss software that tells you how many calories to eat, you will soon need to ask how many calories are in the hospital dinners you will be served.

The Weight Loss Software needs to have an interface that is easy and quick to follow.  The most important is the interface to inputting the foods you ate.  The interface to inputting the foods you ate is the most challenging of all weight loss software interfaces.

In the weight loss software Food & Exercise Diary, I have taken care to make the interface as simple as humanly possible without losing software functionality via the food explorer.

The food explorer in the Food & Exercise Diary includes 10,000 foods.  Other software packages also include these food values because all these weight loss software programs are based on the US Government's FDA food & nutrition database.

The problem is how do you allow for a quick selection of food items from a list of 10,000 foods?

Also, the user does not know exactly what the food is named.  For instance, what you think is "fish" is listed as "finfish" in the database, or "cola" is listed as "Beverages, Cola".  So if you are looking for something such as "Cola," and you don't know that the database categorized them under "Beverages" then you will be getting frustrated looking for the food item under "C" instead of "B".

The worst thing a program can do is just give a simple list of the 10,000 foods and ask you to select foods from that list.  This is what most of the other programs do.  It takes a long time to search through a list of 10,000 foods even if they are alphabetically ordered.

What I have done in the Weight Loss Software Food And Exercise Diary is divide the foods into groups based on their naming.  So if you have two foods, one named "Beverages, Cola" and "Beverages, Water," they will both appear under one category called "Beverages,".

Once you open this category of "Beverages," you will see the sub-categories.  This way you can search an alphabetical listing of categories and not individual items.

The result is that a single meal can be entered in about 1 minute if you are a little familiar with the database, namely you have used it a few times.  Or if you are just using it for the first time, it will take 2 minutes.  So it is fantastic and there is no other software on the market with the food-explorer feature.  This is what it looks like:

Look in the food explorer above.  Each line is either a category or a food item itself.  So you can see above, the "Coffee" category.  There is a plus sign next to it meaning that there are more items under that category, just click on the word "Coffee" to open the category.

The "Cookies" category is open, so you can see under it more categories such as "brownies" or "butter, commercially prepared."  Or you can see immediately the food item "fig bars". 

In this simple way you just scroll to the right category you are looking for, click to open it and look in the categories under it to find the subcategory you are seeking until you get to an actual food item.

For instance, above you can see that we have selected "Cookies, Chocolate, Wafers".

With this food explorer you can select foods very quickly.  After "playing" with the database a bit to learn it, you can go directly to the foods you are looking for very easily.

The weight loss software Food & Exercise Diary For Windows also offers a regular-flat-alphabetical listings of all the foods with an ability to search by keywords.

The keyword search is very important to locate foods for the first time before you know what they are specifically named.

For instance, you can search for keyword "bread" and get all the bread listings:

The very best weight loss software has a very simple and powerful food entry interface.  A great deal of efforts have been put into the food-explorer of the weight loss software Food & Exercise Diary in order to make sure that this weight loss software is absolutely easy and quick to use.  No other software even gets close to the accuracy and ease of use as in the weight loss software Food & Exercise Diary for Windows.

Second, the software needs to give you easy and powerful ways to analyze and report about the information you have entered.

A good weight loss software does not tell you what to do because a software doesn't think.  It is not a doctor or a dietitian or a fitness instructor.  If any weight loss software claims it can tell you what to do, run away from it like fire!  A software does not understand the issues with your specific weight loss needs, limitations, bodily balance.

If it were as simple as coding a weight loss instructor into a computer program, there would not be whole professions that go to University for years on top of years in order to tell you what you should do to safely lose weight.  So if a software claims it can fine tune to your metabolism, or it can guide you, they are lying, or have entered very simple minded software into their program that can cause you to end up in the hospital if you listen to its advise.

A good weight loss software displays for you the analyses of your food intake and exercise.  It tells you how many calories you have burned during the day, week, and month.  How many calories you have consumed, how many proteins, and etc..  You take this information and compared to the knowledge you have learned from the weight loss program you selected and then you will immediately know how to adjust your food intake and exercise in order to lose weight.

In the weight loss software Food and Exercise Diary there are four easy ways to get feedback fro the software regarding the foods & exercise you did.

1. You can graph the reports.

2. You can view the reports on screen via table format.

3. You can produce a report that can be emailed or printed to take to a dietitian, doctor, or fitness instructor, or reviewed by you.

4. You can view the foods & exercise on screen via the user interface.

The weight loss software Food & Exercise Diary for Windows provides analysis of your food & exercise so that you can easily compared to the requirement of your weight loss program that you selected and then make decisions regarding your food consumption and exercise expenditure.

For instance, with the following calorie-consumption graph for the week, you can get a "feeling" of how many calories you have consumed and how you have succeed following your weight loss diet:

In a glance you can see that the red-color is used for "calories consumed" as shown in the legend on the bottom.  On the left axis, you see how many calories where consumed, on the bottom axis, the date the calories where consumed.  You can get a feeling for how you have followed the diet very easily.  No numbers.  No difficulties.  Just a glance of your food consumption.

In the same way, you can graph 10 different types of series to get a feel for how you are doing on your weight loss.  These are the series you can select:

To get an accurate graph, simply enter the date range.  Check the boxes with the daily-values you want to graph and click graph.  It is that easy.

Alternatively, if you want to get into the numbers you can generate reports:

The above is a simple on-screen report.  You select the date range, and the type of report, i.e., daily, weekly or monthly and you get all the important numbers for your weight loss program such as calories consumed per day, fat, carbohydrates, sodium, protein, percentage of fat by calories, percentage of carbohydrates by calories.  On the bottom, you can see the daily average, i.e., what the average day looks like. 

What is important for your weight loss program is the average day.  If you average is within your weight loss program, then you are all set.  It doesn't really matter if one day is a bit high and another one is a bit low.  The average is important.

The weight loss software Food & Exercise Diary For Windows gives you these and other tools to view and analysis your daily food intake and exercise.  The important thing is that you make the decision, or a doctor make decisions, or a dietitian or a fitness instructor make the decisions about your program of weight loss, but not the weight loss software itself.  The weight loss software is an aiding tool that displays your current state, what to do with that current state, your weight loss program will advise with a decision made by a person.

The weight loss software simply gives you an analysis and reports that then a human being can use to interpret based on a certain weight loss program and health issues and decide how to adjust your weight loss program.  Never ever, reduce your calorie intake, or increase your exercise simply because a computer software program told you!

To Conclude:

1. The best weight loss software is a weight loss software that has easy food & exercise input interface.

2. The best weight loss software provides easy to read and follow reports and analysis of your food & exercise that you can compare to your chosen weight loss program and make informed decisions about adjusting your weight loss program for better results and optimally reach your goal weight in a healthy and safe way.

3. Weight loss is not a joke.  Your entire body goes through changes during weight loss.  Never go on a weight loss program that makes you takes pills, or chemicals.  Don't go for the shortcut, because it will be a shortcut to the hospital.  Select a natural healthy weight loss without pills, chemicals, or drastic physical exercise, or drastic food changes in your diet.

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Sincerely,

Tomer Yackov Guez