Passing on what I think is the best tool in non-surgical weight loss
If this is common knowledge in these forums, sorry for talking about boring things. I'm posting this in the event that there is someone that doesn't know about this amazing tool.
In my years of being obese and my many failures, I did happen to find one shining light that did exactly what it said it would do. It's the ONLY "program" that I followed that gave consistent results week after week. Best of all, it was free. Even more besterer, it was easy and maintainable.
The tool is a website called sparkpeople.com It's a free weight loss website. I don't mean free as in you get a subpar product until you upgrade; it's just free.
It provides many many services to its users that you'll have to explore for yourself but in general it provides:
Nutrition tracker - This wonderful, wonderful tool helps you input the things you've eaten for the day. It has a massive catalog of foods and the ability to add items that aren't already in the catalog if you find something weird. It doesn't just track calories but also all of the other food metrics such as vitamins, sodium, fats, carbs, etc etc etc. It also saves this data and gives you nice graphs to evaluate your metrics over time. Using your weight, measurements, etc. it calculates how many calories you need, carbs, fats, etc. By the way, my weight metric was an almost straight line which suggests that, at least for me, the science worked 100%.
Meal Plans - Very flexible tool to plan meal plans for you or an entire family. It already knows how many calories you need (or your whole family, if they all use SP you can group yourselves together!!), you pick the foods you like and it will spit a whole week of meal plans including recipes. It will even generate a shopping list of the items needed. Everything is customizable so you can remove items, add items, as you wish.
Fitness program - using what you are scheduled to eat that day, it generates an exercise plan for you and each exercise is accompanied by a diagram or video explaining how it's done. This plan is customizable. For me, I didn't have any weights so I limited myself to calisthenics and SP fitness planner did all of that for me.
Free exercise videos - videos of all kinds of exercise available anytime.
Support forums - much like the forums here although they also add "communities" and they try to add a friendly competetive side to it where you earn points based upon exercise, meeting goals like drinking a certain amount of water every day for a week/month/etc, stuff like that. This points are used to give you trophies and allow you to purchase gift badges for your SP friends.
Information - articles on just about any and everything related to losing weight and health in general.
Database of medical terms, conditions, medicines, and treatments.
Those are all of the things I can remember although perhaps there's quite a bit more. As for me, I lost 30lbs on SP before I moved out of the country to a place where there are no food labels and basically just fell off the wagon (again) but while I was using SP it never failed me. It worked for my father, my mother, and my sister too. I highly, highly recommend it.
I hope this helps.
In my years of being obese and my many failures, I did happen to find one shining light that did exactly what it said it would do. It's the ONLY "program" that I followed that gave consistent results week after week. Best of all, it was free. Even more besterer, it was easy and maintainable.
The tool is a website called sparkpeople.com It's a free weight loss website. I don't mean free as in you get a subpar product until you upgrade; it's just free.
It provides many many services to its users that you'll have to explore for yourself but in general it provides:
Nutrition tracker - This wonderful, wonderful tool helps you input the things you've eaten for the day. It has a massive catalog of foods and the ability to add items that aren't already in the catalog if you find something weird. It doesn't just track calories but also all of the other food metrics such as vitamins, sodium, fats, carbs, etc etc etc. It also saves this data and gives you nice graphs to evaluate your metrics over time. Using your weight, measurements, etc. it calculates how many calories you need, carbs, fats, etc. By the way, my weight metric was an almost straight line which suggests that, at least for me, the science worked 100%.
Meal Plans - Very flexible tool to plan meal plans for you or an entire family. It already knows how many calories you need (or your whole family, if they all use SP you can group yourselves together!!), you pick the foods you like and it will spit a whole week of meal plans including recipes. It will even generate a shopping list of the items needed. Everything is customizable so you can remove items, add items, as you wish.
Fitness program - using what you are scheduled to eat that day, it generates an exercise plan for you and each exercise is accompanied by a diagram or video explaining how it's done. This plan is customizable. For me, I didn't have any weights so I limited myself to calisthenics and SP fitness planner did all of that for me.
Free exercise videos - videos of all kinds of exercise available anytime.
Support forums - much like the forums here although they also add "communities" and they try to add a friendly competetive side to it where you earn points based upon exercise, meeting goals like drinking a certain amount of water every day for a week/month/etc, stuff like that. This points are used to give you trophies and allow you to purchase gift badges for your SP friends.
Information - articles on just about any and everything related to losing weight and health in general.
Database of medical terms, conditions, medicines, and treatments.
Those are all of the things I can remember although perhaps there's quite a bit more. As for me, I lost 30lbs on SP before I moved out of the country to a place where there are no food labels and basically just fell off the wagon (again) but while I was using SP it never failed me. It worked for my father, my mother, and my sister too. I highly, highly recommend it.
I hope this helps.
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