Diet Reviews & Cost Comparisons 　Diets→ Reviews ↓ PersonalDiets Weight Watchers Jenny Craig eDiets 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 　 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. Online Diets are typically 100% automated & eDiets is limited to 25 pre-made diets. Well marketed but their diet is not well founded & lacks elements important to long term success Reliability Proven - Tracked Success is currently at 85% Proven - Tracked Success Not Proven Not Proven - Review Research 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.   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 Not a custom diet - ediets calls their diet personalized but it's 100% automated eDiets new food delivery is based upon user choosing limited food choices like all food delivery diet programs eDiets online programming allows for the substitution of foods without expert oversight　 which can & reportedly has resulted in inaccurate calorie levels for their members.　 Simple to Use/Follow? Yes, easy to access online and offline anywhere-anytime. Manage almost any food challenge more easily with plans/programming provided. Yes, follow online, offline anywhere-anytime. 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 Yes, can either follow menus provided and make limited substitutions or have meal delivery 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　　 Ediets supports the Atkins diet. It also promotes the use of weight loss supplements. Diet programs are not overseen by a registered dietitian. Nutritionists are used to reduce overhead.  Does recommend healthy 1-2 lbs weight loss per week. 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 Primary plan offers a more limited food selection, can be used on or offline. Automation matches diet programming to your lifestyle.  Vast Online Support Groups 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 Questionable, possibly due to eDiets stock market delisting struggles; dietitian support is inconsistent and nutritionist are otherwise used.   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 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. 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.　 eDiets are 100% automated so no "real" customization is possible.　 Like JC's diet, prepackaged food choices are available but making specific substitutions for eating out is not provided for.　　 Provides Practical　 Exercise Program Yes, MovingMore(TM) - a realistic, practical exercise guide 　Online tools available 　Yes, developed with Jenny Craig counselor Yes,　 Realistic, practical exercise guide Diet Includes 1. Dietitian Recommended Meal Plan 2. Custom Diet Menus 3. "Right-on-Tracker" (Checks & Balances Diet Tracking) 4. Eating Guidelines (For Eating Out/Tracking Offline) 5. Dietitian Personal Recommendations 6 Custom Grocery Lists 7. Option home cooking, convenience foods, both. 8. FREE Customer Support 9. Personal Dietitians email or *phone support (*additional fees apply) 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.Premade menus 2. Grocery List 3. Option for meal delivery or home cooking or convenience foods. 3. Eating out guidelines 5. Customer Support   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.　 The diet is tested and used by dieter to work practically for dieters 　Customer chooses foods that fit within point allowance Customer chooses type of weight loss plan desired and purchases pre-made meals. 　 Customer’s profile is matched with pre-made menus *Cost of Food on Diet Per Week *Note that the average cost of your own diet/week  without a diet program would be approx. $54.44　 Cost of food per week $54.00 (same as always - see comments right) Similar to average cost of foods 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 Cost of food per week $96.64 Weight Watchers cost of weekly foods is $96.64 according to online (Doesn't include cost of program) Cost of food per week $137.65 Jenny Craig (compared to Nutrisystems)$137.65　 ( NS= $113.52) (Doesn't include cost of program) Cost of food per week $139.65 $139.65 per week for daily meal delivery, otherwise own foods used Weekly membership Costs   Costs are determined using websites' own monthly pricing ÷ 4   $3.70 $11.70 $0  Membership cost are included with the cost of meal delivery) $17.96 +$4.49/ week $0 (Membership cost are included with the cost of meal delivery) Total Cost  Diet Program Cost Weekly $57.00 $108.34 $137.65 $67.74 ediet plan Meal Delivery $159.60 includes shipping and handling