I downloaded the trial and for some reason it is telling me I should eat 1284 calories tomorrow. Im 6'1" and weigh just under 200 lbs. the 1284 number sounds really low to me. I think it might be based on the goals you put in but I didn't think my goals were that drastic. I'm basically looking to lose 10 lbs over the next month. For activities I entered my cardio I did this morning and 8 hours of desk work. I've been eating between 1700 nad 2000 calories a day basically 40/20/20. Do i just try the 1284 for a few days to let it calibrate or something?? Anyone have any ideas.

... DietPower starts by computing a formula for you. This formula can be "off" because no one's metabolism is really ever "cut and dry" - there are so many factors that influence it.

In addition, the budget that DietPower provides is a baseline. It does not include exercise. So if you were to burn 400 calories today, then your budget would really be 1600 calories, not 1200.

Finally, your metabolism may be higher than that, but it takes the software time to "learn this". This is why I always recommend that you spend at least a week with a goal of just maintaining your weight. This allows the software to adjust to *your* metabolic rate so that when you begin your cutting phase, it can provide more accurate results.

For example, when I recently began a stint with DietPower, it had my metabolic rate guessed at 2600. After several days of using the software, however, this had jumped to 3400 and then settled at 3000. It basically made adjustments until what it was guessing actually mapped what my weight was doing. As you can imagine, since it figured out that my metabolism was about 400 calories higher, it is now budgetting me about 400 calories more each day. Add to that exercise, and you have a fairly good estimate.

Now, I have an article where I share some tips and techniques with DietPower. This created some controversy before, so I'm going to give you a disclaimer: I believe this information is VERY useful and is what I use to lean down. The links on the page you are about to visit, however, are affiliate links. So if you were to some reason find value in something listed there, and actually choose to click through and purchase it, you might suffer the unfortunate side effect of supporting the information I have shared through providing me with a referral commission. You have been warned!

Here is the link:

http://www.naturalphysiques.com/news/VIi001xuqs.html#six

Jeremy

I just played around with DietPower a bit. It looks like a nice program, but it doesn't do metric. Basically this makes it very hard to use for me. I searched their web-site and found that they do eventually plan to support metric, but no details of when...

So if you were to some reason find value in something listed there, and actually choose to click through and purchase it, you might suffer the unfortunate side effect of supporting the information I have shared through providing me with a referral commission.

LOL Heaven forbid! :)

I just tested some more. When entering custom foods I can in fact use metric measurements. And if I use grams as a measurement unit when creating the custom food I can also use that when entering the food in the food log. This could just work for me after all...

I'm wondering whether their database files can be edited somehow. Would be nice if I could just import the 150++ custom foods I've already created in my excel spreadsheet instead of typing them in all over again.

I think I'll at least test this for the duration of the trial and see how I like it then.

What's metric? :p








Just kidding. I think I'll try this program out.

It's too bad I own a Mac. There is no way I am buying Virtual PC to use this program. I don't have enough control over my diet in the first place. Being a broke college student with limited funds doesn't exactly help much during dieting.