Wellness through the Holidays

Let us remember to prioritize weight and wellness tracking during the Holidays. A bit of reflection will allow for a healthy and strong start to the New Year!
Our warm wishes for the Holidays!

Network Restored

We sincerely regret our network outage.


The network is fully restored.

The outage was cased by actions of an AT&T technician. The nature of his actions made it very difficult to trace the error.

We will work towards adding redundancies to our network.

Again, we sincerely regret the outage.

The Errors Should Now be Gone!

Many of you ran into various errors from our web servers while using WeightChart.com today.

They were caused by constraints on our servers.  A temporary fix is in place; you should no longer see any errors.  We will expand the capacity over the coming days to fundamentally address the issue.

No data was lost or at any risk of loss.  We regret the inconvenience.

Thank you for using WeightChart.com

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

Improved Logging, Fewer Errors

We have recently improved logging of errors from the browser.   This has allowed us to have new visibility into errors that occurred within the browser.  We have corrected a couple of important errors.

Our web pages have a large amount of script code that runs within the browser.  Until now, many errors with this script were not trapped or logged.  The reasons is that the script itself needed to load before the error could be trapped or logged.  We have updated this system to phone home with more often.  We can now have some visibility into errors where the pages did not load completely.

Please let us know if you see any errors trying to use the site.

Thank you for using WeightChart.com

We Continue to Upgrade Growth Charts

In recent days, we have added many new features that are targeted for growing children. You can select an account to be for a growing child either when you create the account or via the Preferences page.

Growth charts allow you to specify weight, height, and head circumference. The charts show your percentile based on the CDC data. These percentile curves are same as the ones used by pediatricians. You are also able show statistics for your weight relative to your height.

Now, you are able create Trackables for other things that your want to track for growing children.

Once children grow up, they can switch their account to Weight Chart and yet keep all of the historical growth data.

We also invite you to explore the same charts and statistics before you sign up at the following link:

http://www.weightchart.com/growth-percentiles.aspx

Now you can chart Trackables

WeightChart Trackables have been rolled out during past few months. In addition to your weight, notes, and feeling indicators, WeightChart trackables allow you to start tracking nearly anything. There are predefined trackables for glasses of water, blood pressure, glucose, etc. But, it is quick and easy to define your own trackables.

Until now, you could only see the Trackable values in the table view. Now, you can add graphs of the Trackables to visualize you progress. This is a great addition; try it!

Chart Trackables, other new features

Thank you for being a WeightChart.com user. Today we've rolled out a really nice batch of changes for you.

• Trackables have been moved from Preferences to the main page because as of now...
  You can chart them! It's our new favorite feature (sorry Photo Timeline) to be able to see things like hours of sleep, and glasses of water in line with weight and feeling indicators. What a great way to detect patterns and the relationship between different wellness factors. Once you've filled in a few Trackable entries (from your normal Enter Weight form) have a click on Options to see this information on your chart.
• Who is 'username3882'? Let others see your real name instead of your login name. For the Chart Sharing and Together pages if you've provided your real name that's what shows up for others to see.
• We've upgraded the ? help popups to provide more information in a clearer way. If you think we should add to or improve the help on our site send us a message at info@WeightChart.com.
  
• Now Together groups with lots of members (like over 100) are possible. Before this change things were a little too sluggish for our large groups. The Together summary, below the chart, is now the place to go to add/remove people from the chart. We've added a last entry date column to the summary, it's handy to sort by to see who's made recent changes.
• As we increase the capabilities of WeightChart the effort of doing more can begin to slow things down. In this release we've optimized many pages to load and run faster, in some cases it's a dramatic change. We hope you've never thought about performance on WeightChart, improvements like this are made so you won't.

Our press release for Trackables

Here is our press release announcing WeightChart Trackables:

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WeightChart.com Introduces Trackables
January 22, 2010, Chicago, IL, USA

WeightChart.com, the premier site for wellness and weight tracking, is introducing WeightChart Trackables. This powerful new features allows the users to track nearly any wellness parameter along with their weight.

WeightChart Trackables are fully customizable. One can select from a list of popular pre-defined Trackables including glasses of water drank, laps around the favorite track or pool, blood pressure, or define their own to track nearly anything. When defining Trackables, a user can pick either one or two values, their labels and units of measure. The Trackables values can be either a number or elapsed time. There is no limit on the number of Trackables that a user can define and use. Once defined, the Trackables appear on the regular dialog to enter weight and other wellness parameters.

As our users found themselves coming to WeightChart.com on nearly daily basis, they were seeking to track and log more about their wellness. A growing number of users from the "Quantified Self" movement are starting to implement their programs at WeightChart.com using Trackables.

WeightChart.com is a free service of the eWoFF Network for family and friends. It features ability to track weight and wellness, set milestones, share charts, photo timelines, WeightChart Together service for groups, growth charts for children, and a powerful nutrition database.

Photo Timeline issue resolved

During past few days, we had been getting intermittent reports of uploaded photos not showing up on the photo timeline. We traced the issue to a minor configuration error on one of the servers. It was corrected this afternoon. None of the photos or related data was ever at any risk.

Thank you for using WeightChart.com

Happy and Healthy New Year!

We wish you a Happy and Healthy New Year!

The simple resolve to track your weight each day is key to your success. WeightChart.com enables you to maintain your goals with quick and efficient tracking.

If you crave more, the site allows for chart sharing, milestone guidelines, photo uploads, conversations with your support team, custom Trackables, health calculators, nutrition information, chart publishing, and much more!

Throughout, the service continues to be offered at no cost and allows you to find a locus of support free from all the noise and chatter of the web.

May this transition to the New Year mark a new beginning for your most successful efforts!