Diet Site Reviews

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Joining Fee:

• DietSite offers many useful services to its customers free of charge, but in order to get full access to all of the features offered on DietSite, it is necessary to upgrade to premium membership. The cost of upgrading is as follows:
• • Monthly: $9.95
  • 3 Months: $33.95
  • 6 Months: $54.95
  • 12 Months: $69.95

Features:

• Diet features:1
  • Diet Site helps you measure your results, track your progress, and see how your diet and exercise work together.
  • Use the 'Track My Weight' tool to record changes in your weight and watch how you progress.
  • Keep food and health logs to record the food you eat and how your state of health changes.
  • Use the meal planner to work out the calorie value of the food you eat.
  • Use the 'Analyze Recipes' tool to determine how many calories are in your favorite foods.

• Fitness features:
  • Workouts personalized to your goal - every workout is perfect for the individual for whom it is designed, fit for your lifestyle, fitness level and fitness goals.
  • Keep a cardio and strength training log, recording the amount of exercise you do and how this makes you feel.
  • Pedometer Tracker - use this log to record the data from your pedometer over time.
  • Exercise demonstrations to show you how to do common workouts.
  • Body measurements tracker - see how your body changes as you progress through your diet and workout

• Expert Advice:
  • Developed under the guidance of health professionals, expert nutritionists and dietitians.
  • LiveChat with a registered dietitian online if you feel your diet isn't progressing as you would like it to.

• Community Support:
  • Get involved in an active online community that's ready to welcome you with friendship, support and motivation.
  • Use chat rooms, forums and message boards to share experiences with other users.
  • Use your very own email mailbox to send messages to other users.
  • Get involved with the Diet Buddy System to pair up with another user to provide motivation and support.
  • Create your own profile on DietSiet so that other users can find out more about you.

• Help Files / Technical Support:
  • A set of Frequently Asked Questions lets users (and prospective users) get any of their questions answered.
• Extras:
• • Alternative nutrition information and resources - read a balanced account of the true efficacy of herbal supplements to your diet and weight loss regime.
    

Editor's Verdict:

Diet Site is a comprehensive resource intended to support dieters as they progress through their diet by providing a collection of tools and resources that are both informative and useful. As such, Diet Site isn't a traditional diet plan, and doesn't therefore tell you what to eat or how much exercise you should be doing. Diet Site is intended to support and supplement a diet program, enhancing an existing diet by providing information that can help the dieter along the way. Diet Site provides the sort of information that will shape your food choices so that you can take more responsibility for the impact of food on your nutritional status and engage in your own self-care management and that of your families. Notably, Diet Site is also a corporate wellness tool, so there are membership options available for companies to provide the tool as part of a health care or wellness plan.

Firstly, Diet Site provides dieters with a range of tools and resources intended to support their weight loss from a dieting and healthy eating perspective. One of the best tools featured on Diet Site is the comprehensive Recipe and Food Analyzer. This resource contains comprehensive nutritional and calorie information for more than 5,600 food items, taken from a range of respected industry sources (including the United States Dietetic Association's Handbook 8). Users can therefore enter the details of the foods they have eaten during that day to get a comprehensive set of statistics relating to the nutritional content of these foods. Alongside the Analyzer tool, dieters can also use the 'My nutritional needs' tool to establish, based on age, gender, height, weight and a number of other important factors, what their daily nutrient needs are, so this can be examined alongside their actual intake data. All of this information is stored on the site and can be examined over time to help the dieter make informed choices regarding diet and exercise regime.

In a similar vein, users also have access to a fairly comprehensive range of exercise and fitness related features. Dieters can use the exercise planner to build a workout that is personalized and tailored to their diet needs, while learning about new fitness techniques using the exercise examples section. Users can also record their fitness regime using the fitness logs (broken into cardiovascular and strength training logs), which collate 'calories burned' information to provide a clear picture of how an individual's fitness plan is developing. Such information can help dieters to make informed decisions as to how to make changes to their regime to ensure that it is always appropriately challenging. Similarly, for those who engage in regular sporting activity, Diet Site offers users a range of 'sports nutrition' information for anyone who participates in regular exercise and athletics and wants to improve physical performance and stamina. This section also includes a High Performance Eating Plan for you which includes food and fluid needs for the before, during and after exercise meals. We were particularly impressed with the quality of many of these features, though we did think that they were a little hard to navigate and this may confuse some users.

Whilst Diet Site does offer a great variety of resources, many of which will be useful to most dieters, we did think there were a substantial amount of tools which appeared to be aimed at a professional market, and wouldn't be suitable for the average dieter. We would recommend that users who are new to dieting and fitness may prefer a more user-friendly site, with general appeal, such as Calorie King, which offers a similar service in terms of diet planning and calorie analysis. If you're looking for professional-quality tools, however, you're not likely to find resources of this quality for a better price elsewhere, so Diet Site is probably ideal for your needs.

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