22.3.08

This new fad i call personalized wellness program ...

Alright, so i've been a little too serious about this whole losing weight thing (said my husband), and yes, dreaming of fitting into a skimpy bikini in 2-3 month's time. I even tried this free personalized diet and fitness program site, which i stumbled into a few days ago. At first, it looked promising with all its calendars, and planners all over the place. It seemed like everything you need to track (food, hence calorie intake and workout, hence calorie used) can be easily managed in this free subscription. But after two-three days, i got tired of it. No, I'm not tired of the program i have already committed to practicing; it's the site that is still not that polished and as user-friendly as expected. Considering most people who would want to use it are always on-the-go and may not have the luxury of time to wander through the site. I mean, the site could have been designed better. Among its tools is the myNutrition, which allows you to manage your daily menu and its corresponding nutrient tracker and calorie counter. By default, you have four meal categories in a day - breakfast, lunch, dinner and snack. Each meal category comes with a default meal plan, and suggested meal items, both of which can be modified by the user (through a list of choices). THis could have been fine if users could add meal categories, and put in these new categories the meal items they want to include, but hell, no. The site just doesn't have this option. I mean, in the first place, in order for a person to keep fit, it is advisable one should eat more smaller meals a day, not three of four. This enables our tummy to digest smaller amounts food, and thus, leave nothing for storage. We need this because we're not anymore the hunters that our ancestors were. THose fellows used a lot of their calories in hunting, fishing, farming; and so they needed three huge meals everyday to keep up. We don't. We just sit for a few hours in our cars or train to work, then eight more hours sitting in front of the computer, and two more hours of little or no activity at all heading home. That means we are not using all the calories we took in for each meal of the day. I wish they could change the site for the better, so that it will be able to help a lot of people. As for me, i'm gonna be really into this truly personalized wellness program of mine. I guess i really don't need calorie counters or a diet plan. All i need is to lessen my calorie intake, and use as much energy as possible. It's even funny i came up with a personalized cardio exercise, which is a combination of a warm up exercise, and stretching from a different video, a fat-burning cardio video/total body burn from another, then another stretching/cool-down exercise from another video. Ha. That's what i call "personalized".

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