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Free online dieting tools and £20 cashback from Weight Watchers
Former_MSE_Lawrence
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What's the deal?
If you've resolved to make 2008 the year in which you get slim, there are some offers to consider. There's a couple of nifty online tools to help you keep track of your diet, and £20 cashback for Weight Watchers online.
Of course though... whenever you sign up to these things, you have to expect a bit of marketing.
For Free:
Irritatingly, since eating well's only half the battle you'll need to get a good exercise regime together too. Yet before you run to your local health club and sign your life away, read the Gym Membership Cost Cutting and £400-less Gym Loophole articles, which'll show you how to get the best deal.
Ps This is a collection of tips from around the forum, masses of thanks to all the original posters
If you've resolved to make 2008 the year in which you get slim, there are some offers to consider. There's a couple of nifty online tools to help you keep track of your diet, and £20 cashback for Weight Watchers online.
Of course though... whenever you sign up to these things, you have to expect a bit of marketing.
For Free:
- Tesco Healthy Living Tracker:
Everyone's favourite retail juggernaut's come up with a nifty online tool to help you keep track of your diet. Its Healthy Living Tracker is free and easy-to-use, and keeps track of both your eating and exercise habits.
To register, just go to its special Tesco Tracker site and click on the Register now! button. You'll have to fill in a form which includes body measurements and a few simple exercise questions; personal targets can be set later. If you include your Clubcard number when you register, you may be privy to occasional special deals too.
For more details about the service, read its FAQ helpsheet.
- Get a free expert Nutritional Analysis report:
If you want some in-depth analysis of your eating habits, new venture NutriProfile promises to send you a free, detailed 24-page report about how good your diet is, and what you should change.
The survey should take around 20 minutes, and has a good scientific grounding, having been developed with the guidance of some top nutrition professionals at various UK universities. Thanks to Tigersilly for originally posting this offer.
- Weight Watchers online:
If you're planning to join Weight Watchers' popular online service this January be sure to grab cashback too. Advertising site Topcashback offers £20 for new sign-ups, bringing the effective price of three months' membership down to £29 (£49 outlay). If you're not a member of TopCashback it should only take a moment to sign up. Bear in mind though that the average cashback payment speed is 6 weeks.
To find out more about how cashback sites work, read the Top Cashback Sites article, or use the Cashback Sites Maximiser to find the top cashback deals for 100s of retailers.
Irritatingly, since eating well's only half the battle you'll need to get a good exercise regime together too. Yet before you run to your local health club and sign your life away, read the Gym Membership Cost Cutting and £400-less Gym Loophole articles, which'll show you how to get the best deal.
Ps This is a collection of tips from around the forum, masses of thanks to all the original posters
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I would like to give a plug to www.CaloriesPerHour.com - they have a well-written no-nonsence weight loss tutorial, weekly newsletters written by a registered dietitian, calculators that help you figure out your BMR, RMR and how many calories to eat to lose weight, and (in my opinion) the friendliest weigh-loss forumswhere you can give and receive support and educate yourself. You can even keep a public weight-loss blog, I've had one there for 2 years.
[this is not a special offer: the website has always been, and will always remain free to use]
ps I am not financially involved with the website but I am a volunteer moderator0 -
The safest, fastest and most reliable way to lose weight is to avoid eating salt and salty foods.Lose weight by eating less salt! - Go on! - Try it! - It works!0
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Another great free weight-loss site is www.fatsecret.com. I've been a member there since September, and I'm finding it a fantastic place for moral and practical support (I've lost 3 stone in total over the past 6 months). You have to use it in conjunction with your own diet, be that WW, Slim Fast, or just your own low calorie programme. They provide a diet and exercise diary, your own personal journal, as well as an active community forum. I can't praise it enough!0
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Have just found fitday.com. It is American but is really easy to use. It's a journal of everything you eat, everything you do & your goals. It show dietary reports on everything you've eaten in a day. So it's great if you have a vitamin deficiency. Also breaks all food in catergorys - fat, protein, calcium, etc.0
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Slimming World might not be the best or the cheapest but its worth joining just to buy up their publications and sell them on E Bay at up to 3 times what you pay for them in the classes.WHOOOOSHHHHHHHHH……..
Blimey what was that ?
That was your life mate
Oh I wasn’t quite ready can I have another go ?
Sorry mate only one per person.0 -
Another good resource is - http://www.thenutritionwebsite.com
They give you a one to one coaching or advice by e mail or by telephone, I found them very friendly and approachable and the advice was down to earth and easy to follow.0 -
I have joined Sparkpeople at http://www.sparkpeople.com/
The forums are very friendly and it has goal tracking, nutrition tracking and exercise tracking. There's message boards, a personal home page and blog are available - you earn 'Sparkpoints' for doing certain diet related tasks (of no real value but are nice to earn as you go along). The site is free, and you can opt into a wealth of emails (or not) about your weightloss programme.
Come say hello on the SparkPeopleUK group
If you want to take an engineers approach to weightloss with a side dose of geek humour then The Hacker's Diet is also a good site - with slightly more equations to look at, but online tracking of weight loss.0 -
http://www.hypnotictracks.com/stressguide.php has a good guide to managing stress. If you are interested in their hypnosis products, make sure you go through Quido as they are on there!0
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Im not sure if i got this from here but anyway, http://www.sparkpeople.com/ website is an excellent tool with food planners and trackers, a forum system to link up / buddy up with other dieters around the world and in the UK, access to an exercise programme and videos and many other things to support the battle of the bulge, and it is FREE!
FREE - perfect for when we all feel financially fragile in January :j but still want to make a start the healthy eating programme0 -
Another vote for Spark People www.sparkpeople.com , for the reasons lola_r_hamster and bukowski have already mentioned.
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