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Calorie King. What a fantastic website!
I have been a member and have been using the CK website now for over a year. If you want help and support in losing or maintaining your weight - this is the place to go. It is the baby of Alan Boreshek, (everyone must know who he is). He is the man who brings out an updated version every year of his little book 'The Calorie and Fat Counter'. You can buy them in newsagents everywhere and he has been around for years and years. I think i bought my first book in the 1980's after my son was born. And so probably since the 70's.
Anyway, the website is fantastic. There is a Desktop Program and a Palm OS Program that you can purchase online and they link up to the website. Basically they are tools for tracking your daily food consumption and energy expenditure. He also has a little notebook that you can buy from the newsagencies, if you like to do it the old fashioned way (hand written). With the electronic versions you can post your entries onto the website for all to see if you wish. A great way to keep you accountable but for me I only do it when i am being really really good!!!!!!
The website has lots of tools and resources and the BEST thing is the forums. Heaps of people use it from all over Australia and I think there is an English or American one too. (Not sure). You make friends with others and help each other. One of the best things is if you want to purchase something or try something, you put out a posting on the forum and just wait for the feedback. I did this before I purchased my Desktop Progam, My Palm OS, my Polar Heart Rate Monitor, and my Treadmill and my MP3 Player. Not to mention many foods and naturopathic supplements etc. etc. etc.
There is always someone who has tried or bought what you are questioning that can give you feed back. I LOVE IT TO BITS.
From there I have found another great website called Couch to 25k. This is a website that details a running program designed to get you from being a Couch Potato to running for about 30 mins at a time in approx 10 weeks. It is linked to another website called Cool Running (for runners), and another website by a guy called Robert Ullrey from USA. It is really interesting. I am in Week 3 now! You download podcasts onto your mp3 player or ipod and use them with the program. They are put together by this guy called Robert Ullrey and they are really really great. Get ya movin' that's for sure.
Check em out! They are great!
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