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Fit Day Review
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Features of Fit Day:
Editor's Verdict:
The first offers an online weight and fitness journal, complete with tips, goal setting and tracking tools. This offers more or less everything the casual dieter could want and is completely free The second level, Fit Day PC, is a significantly more sophisticated downloadable version which you can use offline. This is not free, but the price you pay is almost incidental compared to the wealth of extra and enhanced features you get, many of which will prove invaluable to the serious dieter. It also comes with a 30 day money-back guarantee in case you're not completely satisfied. The two-tiered approach is clever and distinguishes Fit Day from a lot of other Dieting software available online. This makes sense because not everyone will need the full works. If you think you could just do with losing a pound or two the free version may be perfectly sufficient. On the other hand, there are a lot of serial dieters out there (you know who you are) who have made repeated attempts at losing weight using several different diets and may find that the extra help Fit Day PC provides makes all the difference. This system also effectively operates as a free-trial option. You can try out the basic version of the Fit Day system online, for free, to see if it works for you, and on the basis of that decide whether you would benefit from purchasing the enhanced version. Fit Day's decision to offer you so much for nothing suggests a reassuring degree of confidence in their product: clearly they believe that, once you try it out, you won't want to settle for just the basic online package. What both levels of membership allows you to do is take control of your diet and fitness regime by charting every significant variable and clearly showing you your progress so far, how you achieved it and what you need to do to reach your next weight-loss goal. Unlike a lot of diets that require you to blindly follow their magic formula, Fit Day puts you in the driving seat so you can see for yourself what works. Just as importantly, it helps you learn about the social and emotional triggers that lead to bad eating habits and how to defeat them. This makes good psychological sense - you're much more likely to stay on the straight and narrow if you understand and feel in control of your diet than if you feel like it's controlling you. Essentially, Fit Day means no more dieting in the dark. A large part of what Fit Day offers is down to calorie budgeting and helping you learn how your unique metabolism works. This enables you to work with, rather than against, your body; instead of starving and torturing it down to its ideal weight you learn to eat healthier rather than just eat less. Because it tracks 30 different nutrients Fit Day knows when your new, lower, food intake leaves you with not enough of a particular vitamin and can suggest food choices that will help top you up. Fit Day can do this because it has a massive database of foods and the nutrients they contain; a database you can even add to if necessary. It even keeps track of your oscillating moods (via a smiley face symbol), which is a factor in dieting a lot of systems don't take into account. Another benefit of taking charge of and monitoring your progress using this software is the gratifying buzz you get from planning a realistic weight-loss objective and then seeing it attained. Setting and achieving small but frequent goals keeps you on track and provides regular motivational boosts that make all the difference should you ever find your willpower flagging. Part and parcel of calorie budgeting with Fit Day is logging your activities and exercises so you can count the calories you burn as well as those you consume. Fit Day incorporates a flexible and easy to use system for accurately assessing the calorie cost of many different kinds of exercise, taking into account duration and intensity as well as the type of activity. This function has also been significantly improved in the new version 2 of Fit Day PC. The level of information and control offered by Fit Day takes the guesswork out of dieting. Normally all you know is what food goes into your body and what your weight is each time you step on the scales. Fit Day helps you to understand what happens in between. Naturally, this requires a lot of logging, so you will have to set aside a little time each day for recording your activities in some detail. However, this soon becomes something you actually look forward to every day and, better yet, the simple act of logging everything you eat makes you much more aware of your feeding habits. It forces you to reflect on the choices you normally make without thinking, allowing you to make better choices and feel good about yourself each time you do. The website itself is well organised and the downloads easy to find, though the look of the site itself is functional rather than inspiring (maybe more pictures would help). The tone of the site, however, is just right: friendly, informative and accessible, making you feel like a new, healthier you is just around the corner. Our only real criticism is that it could perhaps be a little clearer about which of the benefits they describe are available with the free online membership and which require you to buy and download the software. An easily accessible comparison chart of which benefits are offered by which package would be a useful addition. The software itself is fairly quick to download and runs on most modern PCs. All you need is a 2000MHz or faster processor and at least 64 MB of RAM. It's also easy to get started without doing a lot of reading or studying. Once you've created your profile and logged your first day's data, you'll find that the tracking systems allow you to monitor a huge range of different variables very easily and watch how they affect each other. This may sound complicated, but the way it's set up means it's only ever as complex as you want it to be - you can choose which variables you want to keep an eye on. For example, if you think your changing moods are a big factor in what you eat, you can track your daily happiness levels, stress, mental clarity and subjective hunger and compare them to changes in your calorie budget. For those who want to track their intake of the different kinds of fat, there's even a handy pie chart (which is apt) to show you exactly how this breaks down. If you're interested in body building you can track neck, bicep, hip, calf and waist measurements in conjunction with how much and what sorts of exercise you take. Or you can just focus on calorie budgeting and weight loss if you want to keep things simple. All of this is clearly illustrated in handy graphs and easy-to-read bar charts. Even if you're someone who usually avoids anything involving stats, you'll probably find that watching the lines and bars change as you make progress can be strangely addictive. In fact, the intuitive user interface is one of Fit Day's strongest aspects - it's easy to get your head around but at no point is sophistication sacrificed for the sake of clarity. All in all, Fit Day is a very well-designed software package made with the non-expert computer user in mind. This, coupled with the excellent value for money it represents, make it a very strong contender for the top spot in our Diet Software chart. 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