Wellness at Work - WeightChart Together Services for Employers

We continue to develop WeightChart Together (SM) services for employers, schools, wellness professionals, and other groups.
Our WeightChart Together services for employers take a very simple approach with great benefits. The basic premise is that wellness need not require large expense or time commitment. WeightChart Together services for employers can be started at a very low one-time costs of as little as $10 per employee. These low costs can waived, if needed.

Our analysis shows that wellness tracking is one of the biggest components of success with wellness. WeightChart.com offers a simple and quick way to track weight and nearly any other wellness metric. One can choose from a dozen predefined metrics or quickly define their own using WeightChart Trackables.
Studies show that employees do not wish to share their weight, blood pressure, and other wellness data with their employers or health insurance companies. WeightChart Together services for employers share only aggregate data with employers. The employers can see the huge returns on their investments without the access to personal data.

Our release on weight loss results

Here is our press release on the weight loss results:

WeightChart.com Users Show an Average Weight Loss of 11 lbs

April 22, 2010, Chicago, IL, USA

An analysis of the weight data of all returning users of WeightChart.com shows an average weight loss of 11 pounds.

Analysis of all returning registered users shows an average weight loss of 11 lbs. The users that used the site for between six and 12 months lost an average of 17.1 lbs. Even more remarkably, the users who added between 50 and 100 wellness entries lost 22.9 lbs on average.

Additional details are available at the following link:
http://www.WeightChart.com/Weight-Loss-Results.aspx

WeightChart.com users likely practice nearly all known strategies for weight loss and wellness. The company contends that these averages show that tracking and visualizing can contribute greatly to most wellness and weight loss strategies.

WeightChart.com is the premier free web resources for wellness. The website was launched in August 2008 and currently has more than 60K registered users. In addition to weight and wellness tracking, WeightChart.com offers nutrition information, services for employers, growth charts for children, and health calculators.

Quarterly message - average weight loss

Here is the message that went out today to all registered users that choose to receive update message from us.

We wish to share with you very encouraging statistics about the average weight loss of the users of WeightChart.com.
Our analysis of all returning users shows an average weight loss of 11 lbs. Those that have used the site for between six and 12 months have lost an average of 17.1 lbs! Even more amazing is that the users who have added between 50 and 100 wellness entries have lost 22.9 lbs on average!

With tens of thousands of members it is likely that nearly all known strategies for weight loss and wellness are being put to practice. These averages show that tracking and visualizing can contribute greatly to whatever strategy helps with your success.

Over the coming weeks and months, we hope to provide you with more insights and updates from this data. You can get many more details at this link.

As always, we welcome your feedback on how we can serve you better. We also invite you to explore new features such as Quick Entry messages, charting of Trackables, new insights into nutrition data, and more!

A bit of noise!

You may notice a couple of Google ads at the bottom of our nutrition detail pages.  We have no desire to pollute our content with the noise of advertisements.  These ads do not appear if you are logged into your account.

We have desire to learn more about various factors that impact our traffic from the search engines.  We have been getting increasing traffic from the various search engines.  We want to measure any impact on the traffic from Google search because of these ads.

Thank you for using WeightChart.com!

New Features

Many new features are pushed out this afternoon.

• Now you can setup to receive a quick entry message that give you a link to add your wellness data without needing to login.  The page is also setup to be handy for handheld devices.
• If you remain logged in, you are now automatically redirected to your chart.
• Many new features for Together groups.
• Nutrition database now has lists with highest and lowest of a nutrient.  You can look up high fat fast foods or low sodium foods.  What are the highest protien foods?
• Now you can specify your reasons and goals for wellness.  These are sent back to you on your reminders!

Thank you for using WeightChart.com

Our Press Release related to Growth Charts for Children

Here is our release from this morning:

WeightChart.com Adds Services for Growing Children

March 4, 2010, Chicago, IL, USA

WeightChart.com, the premier free web resources for wellness, has introduced powerful features to track growth of Children. The site now allows for tracking of weight, height, and head circumference of growing children.

For growing children, it is simple to track weight, height and head circumference, and other parameters. These measurements can be visually shown on percentile curves based on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) growth charts. The CDC growth charts are based National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) data. There are various views of the growth data including Weight to age, height to age, head circumference to age and height to weight.

WeightChart Trackables is a flexible solution to track nearly anything related to wellness. WeightChart Trackables are now added to growth charts. One can select from pre-defined Trackables or easily define one. Predefined Trackables for growing children includes sleep time and TV/Video time.

In addition to the tracking growth for children, WeightChart.com offers powerful and detailed growth charts for all visitors of the site. It is easy to look up vital statistics for growing children by month. For each year and month from birth to 18 years, for boys or girls, in pounds or kilograms, visitors of the site are able to see the weight range of various percentiles of the CDC growth charts.

These services are available to registered users without any cost.

Intermittent issue resolved

For various reasons, our disk space usage has increased sharply over past few weeks.  Between last night and this morning, we were running out of space for some of the functions.  You may have seen intermittent errors with photo uploads, etc.

We regret the errors.  We have temporary fix in place.  We will greatly expand the available space over the weekend.

Thank you for using WeightChart.com