Nutrition Health Center

How Good Is Perfect Diet Tracker?

By Terry Dunkle*

Perfect Diet Tracker is a British program first released in 2007. It competes with DietPower, an American program that my company introduced 15 years earlier. (Ironically, DietPower’s original name was Perfect Diet.) Here’s a comparison of the two products, based on a study reported in more detail at http://www.dietpower.com/reviews/compare_diet_software.php

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Overall Ratings

Overall, DietPower earned five stars, Perfect Diet four. Both products are excellent. Functionally, DietPower is more versatile (see below). DietPower also offers phone support and a money-back guarantee. (Perfect Diet offers neither.) Appearance-wise, Perfect Diet’s user interface is more impressive.

Versatility

Here, DietPower earns five stars, Perfect Diet Tracker one star. Perfect Diet monitors eight nutrients. (For some reason, these don’t include trans fat, which has been required on U.S. food labels since 2006.) DietPower monitors 33 nutrients.

Based on 20 years of research by DietPower, Inc., this calculator is accurate to 5 percent for most users. (It's not for people who are pregnant or have metabolic disorders. Always see a doctor before starting a diet.)

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Close Goal Weight
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.)
Close Target Date
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.
Close Lactating?
If you are breastfeeding, check this box and the calculator will add calories for producing milk.
Close Tobacco User?
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.
Close Email Address
Once a month, DietPower will send you the most important nutrition news of the past 30 days, selected by national award-winning editors covering hundreds of medical journals. You can cancel this free, no-obligation service anytime with a single click. We produce it only to promote our weight-loss software. It won't put you on other mailing lists—We're Not That Kind of Company™.

Accuracy

DietPower scores five stars, Perfect Diet four stars. Perfect Diet seems generally accurate. It does not continually correct your calorie budget to your personal metabolism, however, as DietPower does.

Ease of Use

In this important category, both products won five stars. Both have logical and economical screen designs. Both perform searches rapidly. Both have clear, simple, and easy-to-interpret charts and graphs.

Support

DietPower has five stars for onboard help, five for email support, and five for phone support. In the same three categories, Perfect Diet has three stars, four stars, and one star, respectively.

Company Attitude

DietPower earns five stars; Perfect Diet Tracker, three. Our study participants faulted Perfect Diet mainly for its lack of phone support and failure to provide a money-back guarantee.

For a much more detailed comparison, visit http://www.dietpower.com/reviews/compare_diet_software.php.

Founder, CEO, and Editor-in-Chief of DietPower, Inc.