Online weight-loss and exercise programs provide support for dieters. Free online services offer the necessary tools to lose weight or maintain healthy lifestyles without a monthly fee. Dieters also find support groups, regardless of geography, as well as journals to record progress.
SparkPeople
SparkPeople offers health resources, meal plans, goal-setting tools and online dietitians. Business Week voted SparkPeople the "Best of the Web" for online health sites in 2006, 2007 and 2008. The Nutrition Tracker & Meal Plans record meals and calculate caloric intake. Fitness Tracker motivates by showing how many minutes you worked out in a day and allows you to put in the amount of workout minutes you want to log for the month. The Your Health section operates like an online encyclopedia of health and wellness conditions.
In SparkTeams support groups, you'll find people grouped by age, location and fitness routine. SparkPeople members in the same city sometimes get together for runs or other fitness activities. Other groups use the same exercise DVD programs, such as The Firm, Beachbody and Tai Bo. SparkPeople provides daily emails with topics such as an exercise of the day.
Shape.com
Shape magazine offers the MyShape online weight-loss community that allows you to create a customized profile. Your profile includes pictures, personal information, starting and desired weight, and fitness goals. You get a personal blog to record your successes, as well as the challenges, setbacks and frustrations with losing weight. It offers community groups if you want to lose 20 pounds or more than 100 pounds; want to prepare for swimsuit season; or want meal suggestions, beauty tips or fashion ideas. Devotees of particular exercises, such as Pilates and walking, and people training for marathons also have their own groups.
It also operates as a social network in which you make individual friends, and get and make fans. As a member, you get free workout routines from Shape magazine that can be saved in your account. You receive email articles, recipes and exercises. Shape.com also provides exercise DVDs for purchase.
StartYourDiet.com
StartYourDiet.com offers a free basic membership that includes numerous tracking devices including diet calendar, daily weight, water servings and reward page. Other diet tools include a food and activity journal, diet profile and plan, automatic goal planning, and diet charts and graphs.
You can assign colored dots to assess your daily activity. A green dot represents a weight-loss day, meaning you stayed on your diet and exercise plan, and avoided temptation and food triggers. A yellow dot means you maintained your weight loss although you could have exercised or could have eaten slightly better. A red-dot day signifies that you had a hard day maintaining your program. You must pay a membership fee, though, to access dot charts that illustrate your weekly, monthly and three-month progress. At the end of each month, members who earned up to 50 points automatically enter a drawing for prizes. Memberships are required for additional activities.
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