CalorieKing A Closer Look at Some Popular Food Diaries


Is There a Professional Version Available?

This might be a negative or positive, depending on your viewpoint. However, many of the weight loosing programs do offer professional versions so that dieticians and other health care professionals can help multiple patients with weight loss issues. Using these weight loosing programs as an individual gives you more data than you would get with some other weight loosing programs, but they are often less personal and not as user friendly. This is even the case for the versions of these weight loosing programs that are designed for end users. For example, the personal version of NutriBase still feels clinical to me, and it includes “patient” data in many places.

A Closer Look at Some Popular Food Diaries

There are a number of excellent food diaries available. They come in several forms Webbased, weight loss and diet software-based, PDA-based, and a combination of these. Using a Web-based food diary is convenient because no matter what computer you use, all you have to do is log in and enter the foods you’ve eaten. In the end, the type of food diary you choose should be based on what works best for you. There are no real advantages in performance when you are considering a Web- or weight loss and diet software-based diary. The following sections give you a look at some of the most popular choices;

CalorieKing.com

$19.95/year,Web site

After taking your profile information, including your current weight and goal weight, CalorieKing designs meal plans for you to follow. If you opt to go with a meal plan, CalorieKing also develops a shopping list for you. If you decide to make your meal plan conveniencefood– oriented, you might have a shopping list that includes a large number of frozen dinners.

The shopping list can be disconcerting, however. My shopping list showed the following for fruit:

In other words, don’t take this shopping list to the grocery store without looking at it first!

The heart of CalorieKing, and the feature that no other database has, is its extensive food database. At more than 30,000 foods, including information for 230 fast-food chains and restaurants, CalorieKing features the menus of many restaurants, well beyond the normal fastfood fare included in other databases. Foods included in the database are from such national restaurant chains as Applebee’s, The Cheesecake Factory, Chevy’s, Denny’s, The Olive Garden, Papa John’s, Pizza Hut, Red Lobster, and others. Plus, the database is updated on a daily basis, so you are always up to date with food and nutritional information. All updates are summarized on a monthly basis on the CalorieKing Web site.

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