Food and Exercise Diary for Windows Diet Software Review

Our Food and Exercise Diary for Windows Diet Software Review looks at a powerful, comprehensive and flexible piece of software that delivers.

The Food and Exercise Diary for Windows is produced by WeightLossSoftware.com and enables you to analyse, track and adjust your daily food consumption and exercise.

It's not the most visually attractive program, but does everything - and more - that you would expect from diet software.

Food and Exercise Diary for Windows Diet Software Review - Features and Benefits...

There's no version for hanheld PCs either, which is a drawback if you're on the go and want to take it with you.

There's a user guide that takes you through the software once installed and helps you to get set up.

Because it's so comprehensive, there is a tendency to feel overwhelmed once you get started, but it's really not difficult to master and once you've found your way around it's a piece of cake.

There's a nutritional database of 10,000 different food items and a proprietary tool called the Food Explorer, which makes food selection and entry quick and easy. Far more so than some other software we've tried.

When you first log on, you can see an overview of the month with a monthly calendar showing your calorie consumption, calories burned exercising and weight for that day.

This is a nice touch and makes tracking the basics straightforward.

Enter what you've eaten or plan to eat each day and the software gives you a complete nutritional breakdown, comparing this to your daily "budget" with a running total so you can see how many calories you've got left for the day.

A nice feature that will save you time when entering data is a recipe and meal recorder. Simply enter a meal or recipe once and save it.

Given that people tend to eat the same meals frequently, you won't have to repeatedly enter the same ingredients.

It takes less than a minute in most cases to enter the ingredients for a meal using the Food Explorer. Much quicker than many software packages on the market.

Exercise is equally quick and straightforward to enter and analyse.

Enter your measurements, which will need updating as you lose weight, and choose from the 226 different exercises and activities (sweeping the yard, cleaning the house, etc).

Type in the duration and you get the number of calories burned.

There's also a diary, so you can record what you did, how you felt each day, reminders and so on as you go.

This is useful for analysing difficult periods, for overcoming plateaus and so on.

All the info is available as graphs, which can make tracking your progress much easier than simply staring at a lot of numbers.

The flexibilty in producing reports is a powerful feature. You can analyse your data in pretty much any way you want to and produce reports and graphs accordingly.

For instance, you can analyse your food intake for 82 different nutrients and produce graphs and reports on a daily, weekly or monthly basis.

Handy if you need to keep an eye on your sodium intake, for instance.

Reports are also printable, in case you want to share them with your doctor, dietician, personal trainer or friends and family.

Another handy feature is the ability to create unlimited password protected accounts with the software on one computer.

Ok, you're unlikely to have the entire cast of CATS staying over, but it's useful for family and friends!

The software costs $39.97 with secure online ordering and is instantly downloadable.

There's no free trial period, which is one criticism as people like to try before they buy.

However, there is a 3 month money back guarantee.

There is unlimited, free 24/7 e-mail support, which is extremely prompt and updates are downloadable and free.

Food and Exercise Diary for Windows Diet Software Review - The Bottom Line...

Granted, it's not the most visually attractive product around, but the user interface is easy to navigate and it does everything you'd want it to.

Because of it's wide range of features, it may take a little longer to get used to, but it's worth spending the time to do so.

At under $40, this is one of the best value for money products of this type around and difficult to fault at the price.

Check out the WeightLossSoftware website for more information on the Food and Exercise Diary for Windows diet software.

Our Food and Exercise Diary for Windows diet software review verdict? Unbeatable value - a winner!

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