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« Back To Success Stories indexSuccess Stories How to Avoid a Heart AttackBy Terry Dunkle, DietPower Editor-in-Chief It took a heart attack to convince Carl Unlaub, a hospital director in Dumas, Texas, that he wasn't eating right. DietPower showed him how to mend his ways without going hungry. It also helped him quickly lower his risk of a recurrence. Here is his story, in his own words:Two Months After Discovering DietPower "I suffered a 'widowmaker' heart attack eight weeks ago, on January 7. Prompt treatment with Heparin and PTA (clotbuster) prevented significant heart muscle damage, and a stent installed two days later kept things running. "My immediate task was to bring down my cholesterol from 273 to 200 or less and my LDL from 176 to 100. I am an active person and thought that I was eating reasonably, but clearly the presence of plaque in life-threatening quantities was ample proof that I was nearly dead wrong! "Upon return from the hospital, I began a diet very low in fat, which with the Lipitor should produce results over time. I also got on the Internet and found repeated references to DietPower as a software package worth looking at. I downloaded a trial copy and put it to work. "First, I set my Personal Daily Allowance for cholesterol to 200 mg. The original daily calorie allowance given me by DietPower was about 2400. (I specified my desire to get from 227 pounds to 190 pounds by the end of December 2001.) Over the first 10 days, it was gradually adjusted to about 1950 calories as DietPower 'learned' my metabolic rate. I was able to stay under that figure—in fact, was able to go two or three days well under my cholesterol limit and then 'pig out' on an eight-ounce steak! "My wife and I both cook, and found the program's Food Dictionary and Recipe Box to be not only easy to use but very useful in checking our favorite recipes. We were able to substitute Eggbeaters, non-fat cheeses, and other low- or non-fat ingredients in many recipes and bring them well

Within our allowed limits. For example, we enjoyed a delicious pizza last night, with non-fat mozzarella cheese, shredded turkey pastrami, and shredded Morningstar Farms breakfast patties—half of a 12-inch pizza cost me only 20 milligrams of cholesterol and 327 calories! Without DietPower, I would still be eating tasteless garbage! "But the best was yet to come. On February 27, just seven weeks after my heart attack, my cholesterol was found to be down to 159 and my LDL to 85! My diet had worked, it was good eating, and DietPower had helped me learn to do it. I would not go anywhere without it! "(In fact, we took a three-day trip, carried the laptop along, and recorded every meal before the next. We knew exactly how many calories, fat grams, and cholesterol milligrams were still 'permitted' before we picked up the menu. Eating out is tough on a diet, but DietPower made it simple, fun, and amazingly accurate.) "DietPower is a great product. It has been very instrumental in helping me recover my health (and life!), and I congratulate you and your team on its accuracy and simplicity."20 Months Later "My cholesterol is still holding in the healthy range, although, after losing 24 pounds, I let 18 creep back on last Christmas. I have now lost 9 of those 18 and hope to keep the momentum during the upcoming holidays by patience, perseverance, and lots of celery (7 calories and 122 milligrams of potassium per stalk—good for weight and blood pressure). "The point is, DietPower won't do it for you—but it will confront you every day with the reasons you are not making the progress you desire. Deep down inside, the dieter has to have the itch that tells him or her to do what the program makes abundantly clear."(To email Unlaub, click here.) « Back To Success Stories index

Screen Shots Tip: Clicking any picture in this tour will open DietPower's help topic for that screen, where you can see all of its features. 21. Personal Daily Allowance Editor DietPower starts you off with standard allowances—but if you want to change your intake of a major nutrient, you can do it with these colored slider bars. You can also revise other nutrients by typing new figures over the old. (Open this feature's help topic.)Top 22. Calculator Top 23. Help System DietPower's Help system offers 100,000 words (the length of a novel) on hundreds of topics, from Alcohol to Zinc. It's one of the world's easiest to read and understand. And you don't have to search it interminably—most topics are linked directly to the screen where they're needed. (Open DietPower's help system.)Top 24. Nutrition News Click this button on your Home Screen— —to reach DietPower's weekly fitness, nutrition, and product news. (You also get daily news in your Food Log.) (Open DietPower's weekly news page.)Top 25. DietPower Health Shop Use this one— —to visit our online Health Shop, where you can buy the latest version of DietPower, a Spare Key for another computer in your household, and other items. (Visit DietPower's Health Shop.) Top

When talking about weight loss, everybody thinks about diets and exercises, and that is correct. However, will power is greatly reduced when there is nothing to track the progress or to keep an accurate log of the results. DietPower is a smart and complex application that can help you reach your health related goals in a professional and entertaining way.Log everything you eat and all exerciseshe main purpose of this application is not to promote a diet plan or a body routine; it's more of an health coach that keeps track of all your food intake as well as physical routine and nutrient counter. Even if it may appear complicated and exhaustive at first, if you check the five minutes tutorial, you'll see that DietPower is fairly straightforward.To efficiently use this tool, you have to log in your meals and exercise plan in order to see how much nutrients and calories you consumed as well as burned in a single day. Keep in mind that you need to log information on a daily basis if you want to develop a strong diet plan.Record you weight and height for accurate calculationsWhen you start the app for the first time, a small survey-like panel has to be completed. This will create an user account with your current body situation which is further used for developing and logging all your activity.As mentioned above, DietPower is not a diet, but a goal setter, which helps your track how much you want to weigh, and

Below is DietPower's weight loss calorie calculator, which calculates a budget for reaching your goal weight on your target date. It also functions as a weight loss percentage calculator, showing the degree of change required for attaining your goal. Besides weight loss, the calculator works for weight maintenance and weight gain.Our weight loss calorie calculator is far more accurate than most, because a) it considers multiple factors that influence your metabolism, and b) it's been tested by more than 1 million users since 1988. (To see our scientific advisory board, click here.)To get a more precise weight loss calorie calculator, download a free copy of DietPower's Eating Coach™. (No strings are attached—We're Not That Kind of Company™.) DietPower is the only program that guarantees reaching your goal by monitoring your metabolism. This calculator is accurate within 5 percentage points for most users. (It's not meant for users who are pregnant or have metabolic disorders, however. See a doctor before dieting.) To get a weight loss calorie calculator that also helps you balance 33 nutrients against diabetes, cancer, and heart disease, download a free trial of DietPower's Personal Eating Coach™. Birth Date Sex Tobacco user? Height Weight Goal Weight Target Date Email Address Your Goal Weight is the weight you want to achieve. (If it's a lot different from your current weight, you might want to set a goal that represents only the first step. Even a 10-percent weight loss will significantly improve your health.) Plan on losing no more than a pound or two per week. Otherwise, you may eat too little for good nutrition and your weight loss may be temporary. If you are breastfeeding, check this box and the calculator will add calories for producing milk. Nicotine speeds your metabolism, making you burn calories faster. (That's why people who quit smoking gain weight.) Check this box if you average more than one cigarette, one-half pipeful, one-quarter of a cigar, or one dip of snuff or chewing tobacco per day. Once a month, DietPower will send you the most important nutrition news of the past 30 days, selected by

When. Then open the Food Log to record your foods each day and watch your Calorie Bank. If you keep the bank balanced, you cannot fail to reach your goal weight on your target date. Keep in mind that if you are not staying faithful with the results and meals, the app won't be accurate in relation with your body, so stay faithful to your plan.All in allDietPower is a well-developed health coach that can help you loose weight or improve your fitness by logging in your meals, weight, and exercises, on a daily basis. Even if it may look hard to operate at first sight, the app offers neat simple tutorials and even user-related feedback that can get you familiarized with it.Filed underMetabolism monitor Metabolic rate Nutrition coach Diet Nutrition Metabolism Metabolic What's new in DietPower 4.4: Real-time Eating Coach tells which foods are best to eat now.New "scoreboard" integrates your Food Log, Calorie Tally, Nutrition Quotient, Key Ratio, WaterMinder, and Eating Coach into a single screen.Updated Food Dictionary includes latest USDA Nutrition Facts. (Competitors are years behind.)Free updates continue to improve your Diet Power until 2008. Read the full changelog SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS256 MB RAM minimum1 GB free disk spare minimum1024 x 768 minimum screen resolution