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     DietOmeter.com (di'et'om'e'ter'dot'com) n.
1.An affordable online destination that provides internet users with innovative solutions to all their "self-help" diet, exercise, and weight management needs.
[diet from Latin, diaete, way of living; -meter from Greek, metron, measure]

Most Americans want to lose weight on their own. There are 72 million dieters in the U.S., and about 70% of them prefer to lose weight by themselves, rather than joining a formal structured program that requires several visits per week to a weight loss center, clinic, or hospital. Additionally, 74% of dieters believe that the effectiveness claims of various diets and products are misleading or false, which usually result in only 1-10% of dieters achieving permanent weight loss. According to the FDA and FTC, the only proven way to lose weight is through either reducing the number of calories you eat, or increasing the number of calories you burn off through exercise. DietOmeter.com provides innovative solutions for both that conveniently fit into today's busy modern lifestyles.

Consumers are now spending over $7 billion a year on "self-help" diet products and services. Over 50% of the online population in the U.S. is now searching for nutrition, exercise, and weight control information, and over $200 million is already spent for online subscriptions to websites like DietOmeter.com. Americans want the flexibility to diet when they want, how they want, and don't want to pay too much for it. In 2006, 68% of dieters preferred a diet program that they could access from home/online/by phone, and 56% want a plan based on regular (not diet) food. DietOmeter.com provides both dieting solutions that are flexible, affordable, which can be accessed online, and that are based on regular foods, which dieters are accustomed to consuming, rather than diet plans based on expensive diet foods, which are known to be difficult to sustain over time.

FoodFacts Personal Nutrition Facts

Search our database of over 25,000 foods and nutritional facts using our easy to interpret graphic format, with daily calorie and nutritional values based on your own personal dietary allowances, rather than the average 2000 calorie diet. Our database includes most foods and ingredients available at your local grocery store and many foods available at various popular restaurant and fast food chains, as well as some common home-made foods.

If a home-made food is not available in our database, you can build the nutritional facts for that food using the FoodBuilder feature. Simply type the ingredients for that food, and FoodBuilder will guide you through the process of matching the ingredients with comparable ingredients in the FoodFacts database. For specific foods and ingredients not available in our database, simply input the nutritional facts that are available on most food labels, as they appear on the label, using the personal FoodFacts input feature.


MyFoods Personal Food Manager

Save and organize all the foods and nutritional facts you add and find in the FoodFacts database in various meal and food categories (ie. breakfast foods, lunches,...), for convenient food management, recording, and menu planning. Foods in each category can be sorted by calories or specific nutritional values for convenient menu planning and food consumption decision-making. All foods in each category are also analyzed, and display the average calorie and nutritional values of foods for each category, which can assist you on deciding what new types of foods to add to your inventory, based on your diet plan and the diet history for your current foods.

For example, if you find that most of your carbohydrates come from breakfast, and your diet is configured for a low-carbohydrate diet plan, then you may want to add more low-carbohydrate breakfast options, to free up carbohdyrate intake in your breakfast foods category and all your other food categories, making for a greater variety of eating options and diverse weekly menus in accordance with your diet plan.

Another example is seeing the impact a change in an ingredient for particular foods that use that ingredient can have on calorie and nutritional averages for your food categories, and therefore your overall food consumption and menu planning options in accordance with your selected diet plan. For example, if you consume cereal everyday for breakfast, and use 2% milk, then you can see the impact a change to 1% milk can have on your average breakfast and overall food inventory nutritional values. Also, If you are on a low-calorie diet, you can also determine what impact small serving size adjustments for certain foods in each food category can have on your menu planning and consumption options based on your current diet plan. For example, you can see what impact a reduction in 1/8 of your current serving size of cereal can have on your overall options.

MySizes™ Personal Serving Sizes


Measure the serving sizes of the foods you consume using virtual cups, bowls, and other containers available in your household, rather than just using standard measuring sizes (cups, tablespoons,...). Automatically generate interactive images of your containers using our simple configuration scheme. Simply place a container in front of your monitor, make a few clicks with your mouse on the screen around your container, and presto...you have a virtual container to measure your servings with. Once you setup a virtual container, you can save it in your virtual cupboard for future use. To measure serving sizes using your virtual containers, simply select a container from your virtual cupboard, then click on the image of the container at the appropriate level to virtually fill the container and measure the calories and nutritional values for a particular food.


Following a commercial diet plan with prepared menus and foods, can cost you an average of 57.6% more than what you would usually spend on food, and can cost upto 152.8% more, or more than twice what you personally spend on eating every week.
Diet PlanAdditional Food Cost
Jenny Craig152.8%
Nutrisystem108.5%
Atkins84.6%
Weight Watchers77.5%
Zone70.5%
Ornish44.6%
SouthBeach44.4%
SlimFast42.8%
Sugar Busters27.9%
Subway26.0%

Sources: Forbes, Fresh Direct, Amazon, Bureau of Labor Statistics.

DietOmeter.com provides both an online "journal-based", diet feedback format, and a "menu-based" diet planning format. Other websites provide only one of these formats, and at a monthly subscription rate that costs more than a subscription to DietOmeter.com.
WebsiteRates
DietOmeter.comFREE TRIAL!
eDiets.com$19/month
ChangeOneDiet.com$14.95/month
MyFoodDiary.com$9/month


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MyDiet Personal Diet Manager

Monitors your body mass index (BMI), weight, calories, nutrition, and activity level, and generates personalized reports for weight and BMI changes relative to caloric and nutrition intake, and activity level changes. Also assists you on identifying a personalized vitamin and mineral supplement based on any vitamin and mineral deficiencies in your current diet plan.

Defaults to a configuration for a balanced diet in accordance with U.S. dietary guidelines and your personal profile information, with the option to customize your diet planning and feedback settings for various commercial diet plan formulas, which can be with used with your personal food inventory, packaged grocery and diet foods, restaurant foods, and recipes. Current diet formulas are available for the following commercial diet plans:

  • Weight Watchers
  • Jenny Craig
  • The Zone Diet
Can also be customized and used to assist with commmercial diet plans that have formulas for various phases, like the Atkins diet and Alli diet, as well assistance for tracking and managing meal replacement diets like the Subway diet and SlimFast diet, by providing online calorie, nutrition, and serving size information for the various food products available from each company and their impact within the context of the rest of your diet. Additional information assistance for other commercial diet plans, such as the South Beach Diet, Nutrisystem Diet, Sugar Busters Diet, Ornish Diet, and other commercial diet plans will be available soon.

MyMenu Personal Diet Menu Planner

Assists you in creating menu plans that conform to your selected personal diet plan, using your own personal home-made foods, packaged grocery and diet foods, restaurant foods, and recipes. Helps you take control of your calorie and nutritional provisions by sorting foods in each food category by foods that will have the greatest impact on your diet plan, by taking into consideration the foods and serving sizes already scheduled and consumed and the calorie and nutritional values for the foods in each food category. Can also be used to assist in making consumption decisions for unplanned meals at any given time during the course of your personal diet menu plan (ie. unplanned lunches, unplanned snacks,...).

SmartList Personal Grocery List

Assists you with grocery shopping, by automatically generating shopping lists for the ingredients and foods that you need, based on your menu plan for the week.


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