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The Sun Newspaper has teamed up with Fit Squad to bring us an online interactive diet/weight management site.

SIGN UP

This is a 2 minute process, you simply go to www.fitsquad.co.uk, fill in your name, gender, choose a user name, enter your email address and choose a password. You do need to be 18 or over to join this site.

Once you have completed this section then you are required to fill in your personal details.

PERSONAL DETAILS

Here you are asked to fill in your current weight and height details and then you need to input your target weight details.

This section completed then you are ready to go.

THE SITE

When you log in you are taken to your profile page. This page gives you a rundown of all your information.

Your summary- lists your start date, start weight and start BMI, it tells you how much you have lost so far and what your current BMI is and weight left to loose.

You are shown a target line which shows you how far along the line you are to achieving your target weight. Meal Planner - The overview shows you today's selected meals for breakfast,lunch and dinner, you can change any meal you don't quite fancy by selection the "change menu" option this will then give a huge variety of meals to select from, once you have selected your replacement meal (and deleted your original) you can then click on the meal to view ingredients and cooking instructions. When you have chosen your menu for the whole week you can then print off a shopping list. It's all so easy. Each meal also tells you the calorie and fat contents and in your main page summary is will tell you what you calorie intake is for that day

Your home page also displays a graph of your progress so far, and as you loose weight you can edit your weight on the graph to keep the graph up to date. You can also do the same with monitoring your exercise activity each day.

You can make friends through the site and add them to your friends list

You can write a personal or private blogg.

The site also offers forums and access to advice from experts.

MY LOW DOWN

I think this site is fantastic, weight watcher clubs and other similar clubs aren't any good for me, I am a single parent and I simply don't have the time to get to these meetings. I have looked at weight watchers online, but to be perfectly honest the membership fee's put me off.

This site is 100% free and doesn't ask for any card details.

The site is very visual, so clear and simple and easy to navigate around. The visual aspect of this site makes it very motivational for me to keep going and stick at it and I love the way you can get a very quick and clear overview of your progress.

Would I recommend it, DEFINETLY. I first used this site 18 months ago and lost 2 stone in about 4 months. This is a very sucessful site if you use it correctly.

6/5 for this 6 because it's free!

Check it out, the only thing you can loose is weight!

Summary: Thanks for reading :-) also on dooyoo.co. cher_2004