Online Weight Loss Programs – Reviewed

There are many subscriber programs available both online and in
the real world for dieters. In order to help choose one or just
learn more about them in order to help round out your daily life
and coordinate your activities, foods – - i.e. perfect diet
lifestyle, here are some of the membership programs available.

South Beach Diet – Online at www.southbeachdiet.com , the
South Beach Diet , developed by a cardiologist named Dr. Arthur
Agatston, boasts being not about low-fat or low-carb. But rather
they teach you about the right carbs and the right fats.
Subscribers receive daily tips, recipes, guidance from Dr.
Agatston, tips to stay on track, and tools to track your dietary
goals, weight and progress track, and program phase. They also
receive nutritional tools and a meal planner and scheduler to
log daily meals and plan for meals up to a week ahead.

A handy online Shopping List Generator is also available for
members for quickly and automatically creating and printing out
lists. And message boards and a journal are also handy
subscriber tools. Through posts, dieters and share recipes,
motivation, advice, success and failure stories and support one
another. And they can journal via online progress diary entries
and read how their fellow members are doing.

eDiets – Online at www.ediets.com , eDiets offers a wide
range of dietary planning by combining well known company
program options (like Atkins and Slim Fast) and others-
including their own – and personalizing the delivered end
product or comprehensive diet plans right to you. They feature
email, ezine news, helpful articles, recipes, menus and tips.

eDiets also offers options. You can add an online personal
trainer package with community boards, customizable fitness
planning, live support, mentors, chats and experts to help you
along. The virtual trainer shows step-by-step exercise routines
so that you can watch on your computer screen and then copy the
movements in the privacy of your own home or office. And the
package can be tailored personal fitness goals, health issues
and exercise preferences. You can also opt to add an online
anytime-meetings 24/7 package with reviews of the latest
nutritional products on the market. Or you can opt to add a
recipe club package with over 2,000 recipes, grocery list aids,
recipe finder and other dietary planning solutions.

Mix and match, upgrade or downgrade options at any time. They
focus on offering a combined health, nutritional and lifestyle
for helping with the perfect diet plan.

Atkins – Atkins offers a paid subscription program,
customized through eDiets.com above. And they offer a no-cost
version with less features through their website at
https://atkins.com/myatkins/index.html . Their free version
features a personal journaling section, recipe box, shopping
list and file cabinet. Set health and fitness goals in your
journal and monitor your progress. Have a handy place to keep
your recipes. As you need to buy ingredients, simply click and
add them to your shopping list. Save favorite tips, articles,
Atkins information and more in their file cabinet area.

Slimfast – Similar to Atkins, Slimfast offers a paid
subscription program that is customized through eDiets.com. And
they offer a no-cost version through their website at
http://www.slim-fast.com/membership.asp . Some of the goodies
offered for free membership are individualized meal plans,
personalized fitness program, food & exercise journals, weight
charts, automatic notification of promotion & coupon offers,
shopping lists, buddy program, “Ask a Dietitian,” live chats,
success stories, a ergular newsletter and a Body Mass Index
(BMI) calculator that uses height and body weight factors.

Weight Watchers – Online at www.weightwatchers.com ,
Weight Watchers offers a few choices. They have a couple
different food plans; monitor points or simply go with food
choices. Then opt for a real-world membership with weekly
meetings where you learn about healthy food choices and
activities, hear inspirational leaders/ speakers, pick up tips
and program information, recipes and menus and have confidential
weigh-ins. How meetings work is that you attend once a week for
about an hour from a huge list hosted all over. You pay a small
fee when you attend (beginning around $9 – $10 per week with
special packages / plans available, depending upon the area).
Find a meeting place online by entering your zip code or call
800-282-8908 (24/7).

Or opt for cyber-planning with Weight Watchers online tools. For
a little less money per month, around $5 per week, you get
recipe and meal ideas in a click, a points tracker and calendar,
progress charts, restaurant guide and other resources. And
connect with their online community 24/7 instead of driving
around town juggling meetings in your schedule. Jenny
Craig – Available online at www.jennycraig.com for around
$11 a month (or choose package deals). Online they feature
eTools, a new product that is tailored to go hand-in-hand with
the original real-world Jenny Craig Program. You can purchase
foods from them or use their recipes / cookbooks. With the
eTools, member also receive an online journal, they can track
and mark off meals from daily menus, monitor exercies /
activities, calculate number of calories burned, include your
feelings about your weight loss. These eTools also offer access
to plan and print an unlimited number of Menu Plans.

There is also a Recipe Box with additional Jenny Craig recipes
from their quarterly cookbooks. There are free message boards
available for all members (eTools or not). Some may offer
“member-only sections” in the future. For programs in your area
and pricing information, call: 800-597-JENNY.

The Weight Down Workshop – Gwen Shamblin’s Bible-based
weight loss program is online at www.wdworkshop.com . Not a diet
plan, the Weigh Down Workshop does not incur costs for
consultants, foods or exercise plans. One program, “Exodus Out
of Egypt” costs around $118 in fees (plus $7 for shipping and
handling) that include your attendance at 12 weeks of class
lessons, plus a set of 12 audiocassettes with workbook, access
to toll-free advice, encouragement and help. The program teaches
you to spend and eat less of regular foods you find about
anywhere. Find a real-world workshop by completing an online
form or by calling their toll-free number: 888-829-7500. For
online support, information, packages and payment information,
call them toll-free: (888) 751-5767. They have several plans
available and people have to call to get descriptions and
pricing.

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