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Discover your diet personality with “TopTenREVIEWS Silver Award” winning service, Diet.com. Diet.com creates a custom diet plan based on your eating patterns, lifestyle and emotions, all which play a vital role in losing weight and keeping it off.

Diet.com is the brainchild of Dr. Robert Kushner and his Personality Type Diet approach to weight loss. A 70–question test determines your diet personality. The test asks you about your eating habits, physical activities and emotional wellbeing. This determines your dominant eating, exercise and coping personalities. This allows the program to focus more on the person and less on the diet.

Diet.com provides several tools to assist you in your dietary endeavors. Trackers, exercise programs and supportive communities are all designed to help you reach your weight loss goals.

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Food:  

The Diet.com Diet Personality Test determines your dominate eating habits. With this, Diet.com customizes a daily meal plan especially designed for your personality.

A meal, exercise and weight tracker is in included with your membership. The meal tracker portion is designed to help you see and understand what you are eating regularly. With this includes a fat and calorie counter. This allows you to track how much fat and calories you are consuming on a daily basis.

Diet.com offers more than 1000 recipes. They are organized into categories such as course, cuisine, calories and fat. You can search for specific meals like, appetizers or desserts; international foods like Chinese or Italian or simply find meals that are less than 300 calories.

A handy dining out guide and meals in minutes tips are available for those with little time to cook.

Excerise:  

Diet.com’s Personality Test helps you determine your exercise personality. Then they give you a personalized 4–step exercise plan to help you lose weight. Each plan is different depending on your exercise personality. Some plans may be as simple as using a pedometer and keeping track of your walking and steps. Others could include stretching exercises, aerobics or Pilates, yoga or Tai Chi.

Community:  

Diet.com includes an extensive community including message boards and member supported challenges intended to support you in your weight loss goals.

The membership boards are online support forums where you can talk to like–minded members about your diet personality, share success stories or just find friends. It even allows you to send private messages, like emails, to other members and create buddy lists.

Members and community leaders can create challenges within their support groups. Challenges are designed to help motivate members to achieve their goals and meet others. Many challenges have titles like, “25–50 lbs to lose” or “more than 100.” Some are simple challenges encouraging you to incorporate small tips and daily activities into your diet routines.

Additional Tools:  

Diet.com has many additional tools to help you reach your weight loss goals. This includes a printable shopping list for all the foods listed in your meal plan. There is also a weight tracker included with your meal and exercise tracker. These trackers help you see your progress over a period and allow you to analyze your dietary needs. There is also an online diary, which allows you to record your thoughts and feelings for the day.

The daily podcast is a fun and unique tool provided by Diet.com. This feature is a daily tip about food, exercise or emotional wellbeing. You can listen directly online or download it onto your ipod.

Ease of Use/Support:  

Diet.com’s website is easy to navigate and informative. It provides detailed information about founder Dr. Kushner and the basis for his philosophy. You can also take the personality test and receive your personality results free. You cannot however, see samples of your personalized meal and exercise plans.

Several email addresses connect you to customer support and one allows you to send a message or question to Dr. Kushner. The help link located at the bottom of Diet.com’s homepage provides you with a comprehensive knowledgebase answering many questions about the program.

Diet.com plans are billed monthly, quarterly, semiannually and annually. There is a 19.95 initiation fee charged the first time you sign up.

Summary:  

Diet.com takes a personal spin to dieting. Dr. Kushner believes there is no one set diet that can work for everyone, therefore, he focuses on the individual and their needs. Diet.com’s service is truly a plan that caters to your personality.