Diet and Weight Loss Resources
Food Diary and Diet Articles
MyNetDiary nutrition and dieting advisor Katherine Isacks, MPS, RD
answers common diet and weight loss questions in the Community Forum.
Katherine also writes articles about healthy nutrition, food diaries, and calorie counting.
Here is the current listing of her articles written for MyNetDiary:
- Why Keep Diet and Exercise Records - discusses benefits of keeping a food diary, and other helpful behaviors.
- Measuring and Estimating Portion Size - provides practical tips on portion control, both planning and estimating portion sizes.
- Foods to Meet Nutrient Needs - it does matter where calories come from!
- Customizing Your Calorie Goals - helps you plan your diet and customize your calorie goals with MyNetDiary.
- Customizing Your Nutrient Goals - helps you plan and enter your macronutrients, sodium, and vitamin D goals in MyNetDiary.
- The Dreaded Weight Plateau - discusses the underlying reasons for not losing weight, and offers several tips and guidelines on breaking it.
- Physical Activity - it's all about moving! The article discusses types of physical activity and how to get started.
- Hidden Cues To Eating - what drives us to overeat?
- Dietitian's Personal Account - a dietitian also needs to control weight and shares some personal strategies.
- Water Needs - explains why we need water and approximately how much of it we need.
- Weight Maintenance - congratulations, you have achieved your weight goal! What's next?
- Tips for Managing Diabetes - discusses diet aspects of diabetes management.
Free Diet Tools and Calculators
MyNetDiary provides some of the best diet planning and food tracking tools in its membership section. We are very proud of our 102,000 food database, it's accurate and up-to-date.
COMING SOON: We plan to provide free access to some of our tools and calculators, providing easy, at-a-glance assessment of your diet needs. We are also working on providing access to our food database for quick lookup of food labels. Stay tuned!