Preferable with large editable food database and meal/diet management function
to create a diet plan. Statistic function would be nice, too.
Needed in german language. I hope anyone can help me. (the one i found is a
DOS program which doesn't help much under XP)

Martin Seibert wrote:

If you want a German program, you should probably ask in
<news:de.comp.software.misc> as well.

Oh, and please: Write the complete information in the message body. The
subject line is just an "eye catcher", not a first sentence in the
message.

bye,

Onno

Martin Seibert wrote:
Geeeeez! The only program you need is to cut out nearly all carbohydrates
and starches. Cook your own food from real natural ingrediednts (raw meat
and raw veg in case there is any confusion) .....then, get off your butt and
get some exercise. Works on all operating systems and in all languages.

Regds
T

On 12-18-2003, in alt.comp.freeware,
Trevor Noble <NOSPAMfreehand2@eircom.net> wrote:

Are you a doctor or nutritionist?. Such an insightful answer is
surely going to work for everyone... Next time, mark such drivel as
OT!

To the OP:

Finding what you want via freeware isn't likely to happen. Even more
so since you demand it be in german language format. Most software
of this type is usually 'share/pay' ware. It's also a minority
request. Furthermore, such software can't possible handle every
possible trait or condition of the individual. But there is a way.

Pick up a local copy of OpenOffice and become familiar with using
its spreadsheet. You can create a completely statistical based set
of sheets that can do everything you want based on your own personal
needs. Over the years, I've had great success using it for my own
weight-lifting program. Part of which deals specifically with diet,
meal-planning, and a foodbase -> (Custom designed food data base
centering on what I have been eating at any given time). I might add
that all of it is interconnected from one sheet to the next. It
works.

Granted, to do this will cost both time and effort. But unless you
want to pay someone else to it all for you via a shareware or
payware plan (not wise), then there *is* no easy way out. Using a
free spreadsheet to track and accomplish your goals is very
possible. Try using google to hunt down what other people have done
using spreadsheets to accomplish this. Might even find a few you can
download and import into OpenOffice. Never pass up good ideas.

If the OP is motivated enough to lose weight (Discipline and
effort), then why should it be any more difficult tackling the use
of a spreadsheet?

The possible side effect being that you sit on your butt behind the
terminal instead of pumping the iron. Proper discipline will fix
this although. Good luck.

Max

--
For every evil under the sun,
There is a remedy, or there is none;
If there be one, try and find it,
If there be none, never mind it.

"Max" <argos2112@bellsouth.net> schrieb:

Hi Max

[..]
That's what I thought as I used google to find such a program, and
that's why I ended up here.

[using spreadsheets as an alternative]

hmmm.. not a bad idea, indeed. I'll give this possibility a chance.

Good point.

Thanks for your kind answer. I was around here a while ago, but the
general attitude seems to have changed somehow.

On 12-19-2003, in alt.comp.freeware,
Martin Seibert <realsyntech@gmx.at> wrote:

I sincerely hope you do. The greatest advantage to a freeform
spreadsheet is that you're not locked into doing things in any
particular way (you're in control). You're also not restricted to a
plan devised by someone else that may or may not work for you. Go
back and read that asinine reply from Trevor Noble for example.
Losing weight and/or gaining muscular weight is an individual
endeavor. What works for me may not work for you. The tool you
use to track this endeavorer should reflect that. Free and
'freeform' is the way to go. You can change things at will. You
probably won't get such a luxury from the proprietary 'share/pay'
ware route.

I only drop in here from time to time as I'm now primarily a Linux
user. So... I don't know what mean by "attitude change". Care to
explain?.

Max

--
For every evil under the sun,
There is a remedy, or there is none;
If there be one, try and find it,
If there be none, never mind it.