General Nutrition Features:  

DietPower has an effective design that begins with your end goal. Each screen presents detailed information, summarizes with a simple chart, and gives you recommendations on how to meet your goal for that day. DietPower motivates with dialogue.

You will input all of your physical details and your goals for the program in your personal profile. DietPower will make give you feedback on where you are today and where you should be. It will give a rating of your program based on the number of pounds you want to lose over the timeframe you selected. If you’re program is too difficult, click to make adjustments until you have a feasible program.

Food Management

The food log reflects the coaching approach. Foods are color-coded to show which ones are best for you. You’ll drag and drop from the foods dictionary into your log. You may add foods. And, Diet Power goes a step further: you select which groups of foods appear in the dictionary. Most other programs include the entire database of 6000+ foods, leaving it up to you to delete individually. Here, choose to display 3000 common foods, 5500 rare foods, 2500 chain-restaurant foods, your own additions, or any combination of these groups. Diet Power has a recipe box filled with healthy recipes, each can be customized and you can add your own.

Exercise

The exercise log is set up like the food log. Choose between preset activities or add your own. If your exercise varies by speed, DietPower has a calculator to accurately determine your calorie burn rate.ReportingYou’ll see charts and graphs showing your consumption and progress in every module. Make your own reports and graphs easily. DietPower allows you to track any variable including all nutrients.

Bonus Features

• Watch for your NQ, nutrition quotient, at every meal and in your summary view. It’s an easy way to gauge your progress.
• Want seconds? DietPower will recommend which food to splurge on.Smooth your data to distinguish trends from day-to-day fluctuations when you chart any of the variables in DietPower.
• Water Minder Alert
• Each day you’ll see a new inspirational thought:Food for Thought: It is no disgrace to start all over. It is usually an opportunity. — George M. Adams 

Ease of Use:  

DietPower is intuitive and well designed with conversational language and clear graphics. You change your goals by sliding color-coded bars, DietPower makes the calculations. Searching is streamlined, which saves you time and the criteria is flexible so you can modify the databases to reflect your habits. 

Help/Support:  

DietPower has well organized, information-packed help section and pop-up wizards on most screens. Help tutorials, a glossary and a web-based FAQs section also provide information on many different topics. Visit the User Forum to share ideas and get support from other DietPower users. 

DietPower is your virtual coach for nutrition management and weight loss. Its interactive features provide instant feedback. You’ll make informed decisions to keep you on track, and may even have fun in the process. However, for enhanced nutrition management tools and features and expansive and customizable food and recipe databases, Dietmaster 2100 and Nutrinote remain better choices.