Web-Based Diet Planner Makes Online
Professional Help a Reality for Health and Weight-Loss Needs
Personal
Dietitian's Plan-a-Meal™ Provides Healthy Guidance for
Restaurant, Packaged and Cook-at-Home Meals. Just
in time to help shed extra holiday pounds or to keep that
New Year's weight-loss resolution, Personal Dietitian, a
leading online diet company, has launched its Plan-a-Meal™
program to guide individuals in choosing healthy foods for
their restaurant, packaged-food and cook-at-home dining. The
new program, available at personaldietician.com, combines
the convenience of purchased-food programs like Jenny Craig
and Weight Watchers, the flexibility of online and menu
plans and the easy access of diets like South Beach.
Imagine, a diet that's
made just for you created
for your needs, tastes, lifestyle and
preferences:
Other's Online
Diets
PersonalDiets
Calorie calculations made by computers Your calories are determined 100% by automation.
This can result in values
that are too high/or too low
*Experts hand calculate your calories to assure you get
the right calories!
Not custom or customized!
Virtually all online diets
(besides PersonalDiets) are 100% automated
one-size-fits-all. These diets are "personalized"
at best and definitely not custom prepared or designed
to address your diet goals.
*PersonalDiets are custom,
individually prepared diets
Difficult to use & follow daily
Unless the particular diet online has foods that
exactly match your
preferences following it will be a challenge. Other
online diets offer only automated diets that are
hard to follow for more than 1 - 2 weeks.
Easy to use
& follow daily Because of
their customization, flexibility, unlimited choice &
design, following PersonalDiets is fun and easy to
do.
No dietitian support!
Have a problem with your plan or
diet- too bad. While some sites answer
questions in forums personal, professional support
doesn't exists!
Unlimited 1:1
dietitian support
PersonalDiets offers both
confidential 1 on 1 emails support AND interactive dietitian tracking support
that alerts your personal dietitian should you ever
need support!
Where's the Diet?
Many online diet plans either offer you their
"personalized diet" or do no nothing more than track
what you eat!
Real Diet & Custom Tracker
PersonalDiets gives you
what you want & need; an expert designed and
recommended custom diet that help you meet your
goals!
Lack Flexibility & Food Choice
Can only use limited recipes offered
Food choices are typically limited -
makes dieting impractical
Can't add custom
foods to plans
No experts available
to add foods you want in your meal plan.
Great Flexibility & Food Choice
Use your favorite recipes (or ours)
Virtually unlimited food choices
Add & use custom foods
you enjoy
Have your Personal
Dietitian add foods you like to your weekly meal plans.
No personal diet
assessments &
No personal
recommendations
Professional Diet Assessment
Each of our members receives a diet
assessment & 39 'key' personal recommendations
explaining their diets' strengths & weaknesses
Lack of Proven Outcomes Program
tracking for almost all online diets offer limited
or non-existent outcomes.
Published & Proven Results **Personal Dietitian
has tracked, published and bragged about its results
both online & in our video commercials.
Unlike other
online diets, PersonalDiets provide dieters with
customization (not just personalization), with real help & far greater diet choice.
Along with confidential &
interactive professional oversight as needed, PersonalDiets offers dieters more
of what they seek and need!
From
customization, to food choice & flexibility, to But
why is that important? Consider what you typically eat and what's needed for
you to succeed at losing weight and keeping it off.
The close your weight loss diet is to your current diet the
more like you can stick to it and the more likely it is that
you can keep off the weight long term if you don't go off of
it and only increase calories to a maintenance calories.
Other diets are not custom
- they're personalized and therefore only have limited food choices.
PersonalDiets technology allows us to custom design each
members diet and provide them with virtually unlimited
choices! With Plan-a-Meal
we can both individualize diet plan with professional
oversight. Clients seeking to lose weight or improve
their health through better diet receive what they need
most: their own personal plan designed by a nutrition
expert along with the flexibility to make changes that
meet real-life situations.
"Plan-a-Meal's
primary purpose is to help our clients make it easy to
follow the expert advice that we provide and put their
plans into action quickly and easily," says Carolyn
Classick-Kohn, M.S., R.D., co-founder of Personal
Dietitian.
"We keep it simple by using a specialized
database and online administration tool that guides
clients in choosing the right foods for their calorie
levels and health needs," she adds.
The personalization
process begins when a new subscriber completes a
diet-habit survey that identifies objectives, personal
statistics, health-related requirements, lifestyle data
and food-consumption information. The metrics are
entered into a database and reviewed by a registered
dietitian who creates a customized meal plan -- the
Dietitian's Recommended Diet -- reflecting the
individual's preferences in terms of cooking, eating
convenience foods or dining out.
Plan-a-Meal starts
with an exchange system but goes several steps further
to give people greater flexibility in making
substitutions and in having control over what they eat.
The program incorporates calories and portion sizing,
the two most critical diet elements. This combination
makes the Plan-a-Meal approach truly user friendly so
customers can switch from exchanges to calorie or
portion-size information when appropriate, like eating
in restaurants.
"Despite all the
excitement over low-carbohydrate and low-fat diets, the
glycemic index and volumetric eating," notes
Classick-Kohn, "only calorie and portion control
consistently lead to weight loss."
Plan-a-Meal
gives people the flexibility to choose their own foods
for a week, a day or even a single meal. Its EZ Customized Grocery Lists are based on the individual's
choices, making it easier to plan meals. A tracking
function helps maintain running consumption totals so
users will know exactly how many calories are left for
the day as each food is entered.
Personal Dietitian
is a professional online diet company specializing in
weight-loss and healthy diets. Unlike many online diets,
the service is not automated. Dieters begin with a
comprehensive online assessment which is reviewed by a
registered dietitian, leading to a customized meal plan.
The company's three major programs, Plan-a-Meal, Diet
With the Dietitian and Create Your Own Personal Diet,
offer varying degrees of feedback and personalization,
based on clients' specific needs. Since 1999, Personal
Dietitian has provided thousands of customized plans to
clients, integrating personal, professional support to
create comprehensive diet programs.
The
following Health & Weight Loss Diets are offered online:
*PersonalDiets' custom diets are hand
calculated. For those with minor weight issues we
also offer an Auto Diet option. determine calories via
automation similar to other online diets. Where
possible, we recommend Custom Diets where more precise
calories determinations can be made. While
our Custom Diets are hand calculated, to reduce cost of
services our AutoDiet offers no personal support and a
ediet. These ediets are recommended for individuals
with 20 pounds or less to lose, and who have no health
issues (high blood pressure, diabetes, high cholesterol,
etc where users would likely benefit from more personal
attention and support.
** If you are a physicians or university
level nutrition researcher interested in our results
please feel free to contact
us.
