Christmas is often a time of gluttony for many. From a traditional roast through to too much alcohol, many will be suffering long Christmas hangovers, particularly those not fortunate enough to live in a country with a gazetted post Christmas recovery public holiday (Boxing Day on Wikipedia here).
Even if you do have December 26 off, with January 1 around the corner it’s time for resolutions about getting fit and healthy. Here’s a few sites we’ve reviewed that will help you along the way.
Fat Secret
(review: April 2007)
Fat Secret is designed to help overweight people leverage a network of friends and online resources to lose weight by building a support network around you to monitor your progress.
Users first state their current and goal weights, and are urged to report in daily with their updated weight. This data builds a graph that is included on their profile page showing progress over time. Each user is also provided with a blog/journal and can add other Fatsecret users as friends.
DietTV
(previously Diet Television: review November 2006)
The site is a directory of diet plans that combines user ratings and professional nutritionist analysis of various factors like ease of implementation, speed of weight loss and allowable alcohol consumption. The company says it is based on two ideas: that dieting is hard and that community is one of the biggest factors in successful weight loss. There was information available on 47 different diets when we first reviewed the site. To search for a diet, users move 12 sliders to indicate which diet and food factors are most important to them. The site recommends which ones could best fit their needs. Users can also contribute off-site links related to any diet.
Traineo
(review December 2006)
Traineo is a health and fitness support site where users report their weight, diet, and exercise daily to a group of friends who help monitor and support one another….Instead of inputting how many ounces of cheese you ate in your burrito, and how much cream you put in your coffee, Traineo allows you to just give an estimation of how you think you ate each day. Based on your age, weight, and goal, it tells you how many calories you should aim for and, at the end of the day, you tell the program if you ate poor, average, fair, or great.
If you’ve spent Christmas alone, or you need some more rounded/ broader help, here’s a few sites that may help as well:
Wellsphere
(review January 2007)
Wellsphere is concerned with day-to-day sorts of health choices that make up “wellness”, the kind you don’t ask your doctor, but consult your peers about. Wellsphere is meant to help people with these choices and motivation by providing users with access to similar people and to health-related resources in their area. These resources are split between personal profiles and databases of health-related locations they’ve put together.
DailyStrength
(review November 2006)
A social network that provides a space for people with a wide variety of medical, psychological and life conditions to discuss their struggles and the treatments they are undergoing.
The highlight of DailyStrength is that users are asked to describe medical and psychological treatments they have undergone. They indicate what conditions those treatments were for, whether they were effective and provide a narrative about the experience. That information is then aggregated by condition and treatment - so it’s easy to see what a large number of people have done in response to a condition or what it’s really like to undergo a certain treatment.
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this is a cool overview - thanks.
I have checked out traineo and wellsphere before. Some sites offer the “social” comparisons of top performers. Maybe next step is to create buddies to encourage people to keep working.
I cant believe how many people seem to never mention Hyperstrike.com.
They have recently added a full personal nutrition application to their fitness program. It should be a must for anyone who wants to get fit, but doesn’t quite know the best way to do it.
Another great site for diet and fitness is thedailyplate.com. Super easy to use to track what you eat each day.
More services that make you feel like your doing good…but I feel better off without them.
I have used fatsecret since Spring and have dropped over 20 lbs. All of them are good as they provide accountability and support.
Let’s not forget Skinnyr, the site you deadpooled, duncan… has grown 500% since you declared it “dead”.
Also, no mention of centernetworks? The site you pretty much stole this article from?
Just be fat… it’s more fun that way.
Small correction…DailyStrength is at dailystrength.org (not .com).
Fatsecret was one of TIME’s top 10 sites for 07 so it must be doing something right.
God knows the number of obese states in the US is only going one way and I’m sure the food and booze consumed coast to coast today would amount to the total yearly calories of the majority of countries in the world.
nice review… here’s another great site http://www.buddyslim.com
over 221,211 lbs lost and counting!!
buddy up and slim down!
Blogging, calorie counter, recipes, social networking, food journal
Try MSHealthierLife.com
fakesteveballmer.blogspot.com
I would recommend http://www.sparkpeople.com for diet and fitness planning and support. They have a huge user base which provide support groups. I’ve known several friends who have used the site with great success.
The hangover goes till 2nd January, thanks for the link.
For information about wellbeing and happiness, I liked the content on http://www.myhappiness.com . Quite basic info but I found it very useful.
what do you guys think of MDJunction? does it fall in here?
Gyminee (gyminee.com) is another great website in this area. It has much better support for workout tracking, and a great iPhone interface as well.
I invite anyone to take a look at http://sparkpeople.com if you are looking at sites in this category. SparkPeople members have lost over 3.4 million pounds and burned over 2.6 billion calories - but the best part is seeing all the lives changed.
Good luck to everyone working on their goals in 2008!
If you need cheap diet-products you can compare prices of online-pharmacies on apomio.de - only for germany:(
Why do Diets Fail?
The web is literally riddled with good intensions, especially when it comes to weight loss. Most diet programs don’t realize the importance of proper nutrition and balanced diets.
Here’s a question recently posted by a first time dieter: “Why do diets fail?”
This is a question that really sparked our interest. With the help of several professionals, weight loss studies published by The National Institute of Health (NIH), were reviewed.
One thing was consistently identified from searching several popular diets. This one thing is so important that if it’s absent from a dieting plan you’re guaranteed to fail.
The one thing common to diets that fail?
Lack of Balanced Nutrition
It serves no purpose, and may even be harmful, to start a diet that’s not nutritious. You will starve for certain nutrients and overeat to get the nutrients you need.
And what do you over-eat? The same nutrient poor foods that caused the problem in the first place!
Proper nutrition and a balanced diet are essential to your success. This is what you need to do…
1. Undergo a nutritional assessment. Do this before you begin to lose weight.
2. Correct any nutrient deficiency (low levels of vitamins or minerals) by taking a complete once-a-day supplement.
Finding a dieting program centered on balanced nutrition is like finding a diamond in the rough. Can you totally forget about fast results?
If so, I found a diamond in the rough just for you.
There’s a lot more to learn about nutrition and balanced diets. The links below should fill in the gaps…
• Dieting good foods to eat - our extensive list of good diet foods.
• How to Pick a Diet that is Nutritious
• Nutrition Information - Help finding accurate diet and nutrition information.
And for eating a balanced nutritious diet, click on the links below:
• Personalized weight loss plans
• Weight Loss Preparation.
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The Free Program is designed to prepare your body and your mind for healthy weight loss.
Reiner Hoyer
http://www.HealthyForever.ca
I thought sparkpeople sold itself to Steve Case’s RevolutionHealth Network?
http://www.revolutionhealth.co.....parkp-9684
I think these are best way for the Dieting and nutrition. But i need some more suggestions for this.
Ann - we can see from a mile away that you are from MDJunction
I joined the mens fitness online personal training program and its fantastic, much cheaper than joining the gym and I actually get one to one time with a real person plus the exercises are designed so that you can do them at home - which is great as i don dont have to worry what i wear http://www.mensfitnessmagazine.....netrainer/
Hi Trebish - RevolutionHealth did recently invest in SparkPeople and we are excited about working together with them closely, but we’re still a separate company with the same team running the business. I founded SparkPeople 7 years ago with a goal to help millions of people reach their goals after the first company I co-founded with a friend became eBay’s first acquisition in 98. My team and I are as passionate as ever about our mission!
Thanks Chris
Do people who use SparkPeople know about RevolutionHealth’s involvement as I don’t see mention of it anywhere on the site?
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Sure Trebish - we’ll be putting information about the relationship on the site in the next week or so. Since the close of the partnership, our team has been working like crazy to get ready for the New Year’s crush and just launched a major new feature yesterday - and we’re adding some new servers, etc. to handle traffic.
Happy New Year!
Add beYOU.tv to this list. At beYOU you can watch free video online or purchase videos and download them.
beYOU features Barry’s Bootcamp, Yoga, Pilates, Tai Chi, Meditation, Stress Reduction and Healthy Eating.
Whenever you need a workout guide or a little motivation, visist beYOU.tv!
Enjoy,
Greg
This niche market still has yet to see a dominant model
If there are some people for the good and healthy Schüssler Salze, please got to http://www.schuessler-salze-portal.de - comercial free!