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This is an overall approach that has really worked
I am angry about my weight and that was my motivation to try this diet This diet app gives you a total approach to weight loss if you want to use it There are lots of good things about the approach Instead of counting calories it divides foods into groups and specifies a recognizable serving size like a baseball or deck of cards and tells you how many servings a day It gives you a weekly shopping list that will assure you have everything you need for prep You can have unlimited servings of vegetable and fruits so if you are hungry you can snack instead of agonize It has daily different short exercise routines It has a feature where you can scan bar codes on commercial foods and it will automatically add the components to your food list There is a private Facebook group which has been useful to get answers to little things about the diet or app The admins are prompt to reply to questions I was pleasantly surprised at how good the food is I would never have tried some of the things without them being on the menu There is a series of daily achievable goals that help modify your behavior You can check these off daily so you actually accomplish something every day if you stick to it I don t feel scolded if I don t make a perfect day I m working out some of the problems For example I have not been able to get three meals a day prepared every day due to life events but because I have the ingredients due to the weekly shopping list I ve cooked some meals out of order I m hoping this makes no difference My husband was not initially on board I told him he did not have to eat with me but that I was doing this He reluctantly agreed to try He is diabetic and lost 6 pounds the first week and his blood sugar has been measurably lower for the week so he s getting on board