It then dawned on me that I was probably a victim of some rather draconian anti truth, anti two way communicative policy. I checked my account and cold see that the money had been taken. I attempted to log on this morning and I was greeted with a page that suggested that they were unable to take my payment and requested a new credit card detail. This was about 9.00pm last night and I switched off my computer intending to see if the weight loss resources team had replied. In my reply I mentioned the fitday website and compared the two, I asked for some feedback from the help team about my comments. My own opinion is that they should develop relationships with supermarkets and food producers ensuring that as and when products were changed that the nutritional information was communicated and updated. This was of course very reasonable BUT I found that most of the foods I was logging were out of date or nonexistent so I reiterated my point that for a paid for service I think there should be a better in house "managed" solution to these issues. Before the sites help/admin team had chance to reply some other weight loss resources members pointed out that they felt I should always flag up my inaccurate foods to the admin team and they would change them. I mentioned that for a paid for service I felt that the costs were difficult to justify if the main point of the site (the database) was often inaccurate. I really wanted to know what the weight loss resources administrators were planning to do or not do about the situation. I was very fair in my evaluation but reported that I was unhappy with the amount of corrections that I had to make to foods. Rather than suffer in silence I decide to raise my concern on the websites forum. a brand of beer might be listed but only one size bottle, when maybe there would be 3 - 4 different sizes available) this further complicated the process of food logging. Not only was the actual nutritional info often wrong, sometimes the foods didn't even exist in the database, sometimes they existed but not in the different pack sizes that were commonly available (e.g.
These were not what I consider to be rare items as I shop at the popular common or garden supermarkets and in my opinion should have been accurate. After several days I started to become aware that a lot of the items in the nutritional information for the food database differed from the manufacturer’s label. I made a comment on the forum talking about my weight loss and motivation in a positive way and joining in with the general feeling of community support, not dissimilar to that of the moneysaving expert forums. I then spent the next 9 days faithfully logging all my food & exercise and I was enjoying seeing the progression of my "stats" essentially calories consumed vs. I was reasonably pleased that the food database was an improvement on the fitday site so I signed up for permanent paid for access on the 01/04/09 at a monthly subscription at a rate of £9.74. I found that many of the foods that I had consumed during the 1st day were listed (although I didn't cross reference their accuracy with the products label). In 24 hours I tested the site as much as I could.
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Initially I signed up for a free 24 hour trial which started on the 31/03/09. Although it was a paid for premium service, I decided to investigate it usefulness as I thought that if they were charging what is quite a lot of money for a simple service then it might be fair to assume that at least the database of foods (nutrition & calories etc) held within the site would be more accurate and more relevant to British users. I searched the net and was delighted when I found a similar if not more basic site based in the UK. This was not a problem for the odd item, but when you are trying to lose weight and eat more nutritionally then one is encouraged to vary their diet, which inevitably leads to more and more data entry. I had been using another site to do primarily the same thing, with a free to use service at but because it was an American site I became frustrated at the constant need to set up many of our popular British foods, as what the site called "Custom Foods" which involved entering the information from the nutrition label found on most foods. It's a simple but useful weight loss strategy. You also log your activity thereby giving you a kind of in and out budget report for calories consumed. It works by offering a place for you to log food that you have consumed thereby working out what your daily/weekly calorific consumption.
Weight Loss resources is essentially a website that provides a service for people to monitor their weight loss and to try to help people who have lost weight by maintaining the loss. I feel compelled to write this as a warning to other potential users of.
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