Diets Compared
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PersonalDiets |
Weight Watchers |
Jenny Craig |
Online
Diets |
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Pros/Cons |
PersonalDiets is a diet service with dietitian
support. The diet plans created by your Personal Dietitian offer you
more food choices, are custom designed to your needs - and offer you a
dynamic, flexible diet that's truly designed to be practical to use &
follow. |
Established diet offering
a Flexible Diet
Internally trained Weight
Watchers members lead meetings
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Like all packaged meal diets
Jenny Craig is a simplified diet that doesn't need to be tracked but
limits choices
Weekly support from consultants
to address challenges, corporate registered dietitians available in
special situations.
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Online Diets are typically 100% automated.
Limited to tracking calories or offer limited food choices
Programs are typically not well founded - lacking elements important to
long term success
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Cost of Food
(Per Week)
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Cost of food per week
is equal to
or similar to your current cost per week.
No expensive specialized
diet foods or supplements are required.
Flexible menu planning allows
clients to choose foods "in season" and repeat foods (leftovers) to
reduce costs
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Cost of food per week
$96.64
Weight Watchers cost of weekly
foods is $96.64
(Doesn't include cost of program)
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Cost of food per week
$137.65
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Cost of
food varies - see particular provider |
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Diet Cost
Costs are determined
using websites' own monthly pricing then dividing by weeks per month |
2 Diet
Options
*$1.67/week
no support option
*$3.70/
week
with expert support |
$11.70/week |
Not Applicable
Membership cost are hidden within
the cost of meals & |
See Provider |
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Reliability |
Proven - Tracked Success
is currently at 85% |
Proven - Tracked Success |
Not Proven |
Not Proven |
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Custom?
Fixed Menu?
Substitutions? |
PersonalDiets are individually
designed custom diets.
The menu system allows you to change it "at-will" to suit your needs
within context of healthy diet with professional oversight.
Yes - Virtually Unlimited Substitutions are possible
Virtually 100% flexible.
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Not Custom
Menus allows you to change it
"at-will" to suit your needs
Yes - Large number of substitutions are possible
WW Flex Plan offers a full range
of food choices |
Not Custom
Menus are fixed - once purchase is made flexibility is quite limited.
Clients choose their own Jenny
Craig diet foods but they are also limited by Jenny Craig's offerings
You are restricted to Jenny
Craig's Prepackaged Entrees: frozen breakfasts, lunches, dinners, and
even dessert. Jenny's meals are then supplemented with fruits, non
starchy vegetables and dairy products |
Few are custom - most are 100%
automated
Some Online Diets have
programming allowing basic substitution
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Simple to Use/Follow? |
Yes, easy to access online and offline
anywhere-anytime. Manage almost any food challenge more easily with
plans/programming provided.
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Yes, follow online, offline anywhere-anytime.
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I believe this is this is the strength of Jenny Craig,
like PersonalDiets Convenience Diet Option, the diet is basically a "no
brainer". The drawback for Jenny Craig is the limitation of JC's
convenience is eating only JC's expensive prepackaged foods |
Most are not
simple to follow because automation is too cumbersome. As a result
they are not simple as foods you naturally eat are not provided or
are inefficient to access. |
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Healthy
Balanced
Safe |
Yes, registered dietitians oversee development of all
PersonalDiets custom plans |
Yes, this diet is safe & promotes healthy eating
habits & manageable weight loss. |
Basically nutritionally safe &
sound at higher calorie levels and when supplemented with
vitamin/mineral supplement.
Jenny Craig counselors are not
credentialed in dietetics & may lack the expertise to address
nutritional issues
Some programs go as low as 1000
Calories, which may compromise nutritional intake |
Virtually all (except PersonalDiets) are not overseen
by a registered dietitian.
Yes, those that
recommend healthy 1-2 lbs weight loss per week. |
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Practicality |
Uses foods you are used to,
can be used on or offline,
matched personally to your eating style,
offers a simple diet solution, healthy, delicious & realistic to follow.
Offers Expert &
Community Support. |
Uses foods you are used to,
can be used on or offline, offers a simple diet solution.
Offers Community Support. |
Traditional - On-again off-again diet mentality.
No one could eat these foods indefinitely.
Offers Non-Credentialed Counseling Support |
No - more offer limited food selections AND an
inability to be used on or offline. |
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Expert/
Dietitian Support |
Yes, Registered Dietitians. You can email
PersonalDiets' chief dietitian without fee.
15 minute to 1 hour phone consultation are available with additional
fees. |
No, as a commercial diet company a dietitian was consulted initially
but they are not central to the diet program & are not offered as
consultants for help or assistance |
No, as a commercial diet company dietitians are not
central to the diet program. Jenny Craig's internally trained counseling
staff offer the only support
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Advise using sites with Physician or Dietitian support
Crosscheck online diet service to be sure such expertise is available
before purchase..
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Family Friendly/
Student Friendly |
With so many overweight individuals in one family,
students who can't diet due to school routines, and varied lifestyles,
custom designed diets are a good solution. PersonalDiets
capitalized on this designing individual diets for: families, students,
military and other lifestyles that are considerate of the users' food
preferences and even availability. Adding foods to PersonalDiets to fit
personal needs & preferences is just a beginning.
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Diet allows substitutions of foods so each family
member can diet but no customization or lifestyle individualization is
provided except those already available in WW. |
JC's diet allows prepackaged food choice but to our
knowledge are not designed specifically for family members, students or
military food availability. |
Online, automated
"e" type diets are typically 100% automated, therefore no "real"
customizations are offered for students or families.
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Provides
Practical Exercise
Program |
Yes, MovingMore(TM) -
a realistic, practical
exercise guide |
Online tools available |
Yes,
developed with Jenny Craig counselor |
Check particular
providers
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Diet Includes |
1.
Dietitian Recommended Meal Plan
2. Custom Diet Menus
3. "Right-on-Tracker"
(Checks & Balances for on and offline Diet Tracking)
4. Eating Guidelines
5. Dietitian's Personal Recommendations
6 Custom Grocery Lists
7. Options:
home cooking, convenience foods, or combine both.
8. FREE Customer Support
9. Personal Dietitians email or *phone support
(*additional fees apply)
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1. Point allowance for each day
and point values for foods
2. Recipes
3. Weekly online or in person
meetings for support |
1. Daily pre-prepared meals
based on personal preferences
2. Support from Jenny
Craig consultants for dieting
habits and exercise plans.
3. Option to purchase meals from
local vendor or have meals shipped directly to your home (plus the cost
of shipping FedEx) |
1.Most online diets offer no menus
AND offer only calorie
or food tracking tools
(PersonalDiets offers both menus & calorie & meal tracking, &
more)
2. Grocery Lists
3. Most offer limited or No
expert support
4. Most offer limited or no
custom support
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How it Works |
PersonalDiets offer more food choices, is custom
designed to needs - yet offers a dynamic, flexible diet that let's you
use a meal plan when that's beneficial, count calories, and use
exchanges when that works. |
Customer chooses foods that fit within point allowance |
Customer chooses type of weight loss plan desired and
purchases pre-made meals. |
Online Diet
providers vary though most offer online
tracking of the food you - not a diet! |
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Food
(Types of Foods
You'll Eat) |
Virtually all Foods can be used
Choose Recipe Convenience OR a Combination Diet
Use virtually ANY food item or brand of food in your diet.
(see picture below)
*Note:
Programming allows for virtually all foods. Use your
personal favorite recipes, our recipes and/or use ready-to-eat foods,
even other's diet foods. |
Like PersonalDiets, WW enables you
to use recipes, convenience foods and dine out
*Note:
WW is primarily designed for foods with Weight Watchers' Points
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Jenny let's you use recipes or
convenience foods. Dining out is a bit more restrictive
*Note:
Jenny is primarily designed for Jenny Craig Foods
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Like PersonalDiets
Online Diets offers recipe, convenience & combination diets.
Dining out with Online Diets is
a bit more restrictive
*Note
Online Diets'
programming considerably limits your food choices |
PersonalDiets recommended menus gives you complete control over your diet
cost. They are based on healthy whole foods, convenience
foods from grocery stores, recipes, and restaurant foods with the best balance
of nutrients for your body - real foods that you and your household members can
eat every day. Since no expensive special supplements or "diet" foods are
required, you have complete control over the cost of your diet.
