Our big difference is that we’ll stay on your back, reminding you of your goals through the use of email. We’ve all been nagged, but this time you’ve asked for it!

You’ll get nagged in a number of different ways:

• Get regular emails reminding you of your daily calorie target
• Get nagged if you don’t complete your daily record when you’re supposed to
• We also provide an email reminder service for whatever purpose you want. For example, you might want reminding about a birthday or doctors appointment

For those who like a bit of fun you can choose different levels of nagging from polite to mildly abusive!

We won’t let you forget the goals you have set yourself!

To help you achieve your goals it is best to keep a daily record of your calorie consumption and exercise done. Doing this helps you stay focussed and identify when you’ve done well and when you have not.

You can use your daily record to:

• Define your targets
• Keep a daily record of your weight
• Keep a log of your calorie and protein consumption
• Calculate and record calories burnt through exercise activity
• Calculate and record calories consumed from our food database
• Keep a log of other measurements such as size of chest, biceps, forearms, waist, etc
• View your daily record history both numerically and graphically to see how you’re doing
• Check whether you’re on target to achieving your goals
• Update targets as you achieve them or if they change

The daily record should be updated at least every other day for it to be effective. Any longer and you run the risk of forgetting what your consumption or exercise activity has been and, even worse, losing focus on your goals.

Using the information you have entered into your daily records you can view charts that show how you’ve performed over a period of time.

We offer a number of charts allowing you to view:

• How your weight has changed over time and progress towards your target
• Your calorie consumption so you can see when you've lapsed
• Your net calorie intake (taking into account any exercise you've done)
• A number of other charts showing carbohydrate, fat, protein, fibre intakes
• Your change in bicep, hips or waist size if you are monitoring these

The rules of losing weight are simple. If you consume more calories than you burn you’ll gain weight. If you consume less than you burn then you’ll lose weight. Forget the gimmicks, fancy diets and pills - it’s as simple as that.

We call this difference the calorie deficit or surplus.

A deficit will result in weight loss, a surplus in weight gain.

As a member we help you set a target weight and a timescale within which you want to achieve that target. Our target calculator will tell you what your calorie deficit needs to be each day in order to achieve your weight goal over the specified period of time and our exercise calculator will tell you how long you need to do various exercises in order to burn the required calories.

The free calculators will calculate your Body Mass Index (BMI) and your Waist-to-hip ratio and provide you with an indicator of where you fall within the typical bands that health professionals use.

The library contains a growing number of articles covering a variety of topics and subjects that will interest you.

The library includes:

• Suggested exercise plans
• Suggested recipes
• Explanations of key terminology
• Tips and suggestions to help you succeed at losing weight