WeightChart, Track your weight and wellness

Wellness at Work - WeightChart Together Services for Employers

2010-05-28T14:13:00.000-07:00

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

2010-04-22T13:21:00.000-07:00

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

2010-03-31T12:16:00.000-07:00

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!

2010-03-31T10:58:00.000-07:00

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

2010-03-16T13:43:00.000-07:00

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

2010-03-04T10:24:00.000-08:00

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

2010-02-25T08:51:00.000-08:00

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

2010-02-22T12:19:00.000-08:00

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

2010-02-11T11:58:00.001-08:00

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

2010-02-03T15:14:00.000-08:00

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

2010-01-29T13:02:00.000-08:00

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

2010-01-22T11:45:00.000-08:00

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

2010-01-06T13:22:00.000-08:00

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!

2010-01-01T14:02:00.000-08:00

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!

November Update Letter

2009-11-23T13:33:00.001-08:00

The followig message is being sent to all members that have chosen to receive the updates:

Thank you for using WeightChart.com. Many of you are making great strides with your wellness goals. We will soon be publishing the average weight loss for frequent users of the site. There are many exciting new features available to you.

We have started to publish selected member success stories. Please use the Preference page to submit your story and your comments. You can also use this public link to show your chart on your blog or social networking site. We invite you to review the published stories and submit yours.

Our Wellness Together services continue to evolve. Now you are able to create sub-groups within your group and create competitions between these sub-groups. There are new administration options for challenges and competitions. Please remember that all fees are waived until 2011! We are now focusing on Wellness Together success stories.

We have introduced growth charts for children. We invite you to explore these powerful new features for tracking the growth of your children.

The nutrition database now provides much more detail and allows you to save foods items that are of particular interest to you.

You will also find enhancements to one-to-one sharing, conversations, Trackables, and the BMI calculator.

We invite you to keep WeightChart.com with you through the holidays so your New Year's resolutions can be strong! Our warm wishes for the Holidays..

Our press release regarding updates

2009-10-15T13:30:00.000-07:00

Following is our press release regarding updates to the site.

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WeightChart.com Upgrades Age Weight Charts, BMI Calculator, and Nutrition Information
October 15, 2009, Chicago, IL, USA

WeightChart.com, the premier site for wellness and weight tracking, has upgraded age weight charts for boys and girls. The site has also upgraded it's BMI Calculator and nutrition information. WeightChart.com has always been a great place for answers to questions such as "How much should I weigh?" or "What is my BMI (Body Mass Index)?" The site now provides many additional details in monthly charts for growing boys and girls as well as adults.

The kids weight charts are significantly upgraded to include an individual page for each month. Now you are able to see all of the details for growth chart for boys or girls by year and month. It is easy to browse them or select the specific year and month.

The upgraded BMI calculator now graphically shows the range of healthy weight for your height and well as ranges for overweight and underweight for your height. It shows and graph of the weight associated with BMI between 18.5 and 25 for any given height as the healthy weight range.

The information provided from the nutrition database is enhanced with many additional details. The primary nutrients are shown in the new nutrition label with amounts and percentages. All other nutrients are displayed in a list with graphical representation. There tabs for various portions.

WeightChart.com and other eWoFF Network sites and services are owned and operated by eWoFF.com, Incorporated, an Illinois corporation based in Chicago, IL USA. The sites of eWoFF Network include WeightChart.com, eWoFF.com, nvytr.com, eShareNow.com, and ThinkingofYouNow.com. You may contact eWoFF.com, Incorporated at info@WeightChart.com with any questions, comments, or additional information.

WeightChart.com Update Message

2009-07-29T07:44:00.000-07:00

Here is our update message that is being sent to members who choose to accept updates:

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Thank you for using WeightChart.com. Our membership doubled in the last three months!

As many have yet to tap all of the powerful new features that will assist in reaching your wellness goals, we have sketched a few of them below.

WeightChart Trackables allows you to create your own parameters for keeping tabs on what is working for you -- from laps around your favorite track, to how many glasses of water you are drinking; from blood pressure readings to pedometer counts. Best of all, this feature is fully customizable, so you can easily create your own Trackables to monitor what is important to you.

To start using this powerful new feature, simply go to the Preferences page when logged into your account and click the Create Trackable button.

WeightChart Together Services are now in place to allow you to tap the power of making your goal a shared endeavor. Success stories invariably include some aspect of group sharing, whether it's with your family, your weight-loss group, or your trainer.

Where you were previously able to share your chart with individuals - a great beginning - Together Services allows you to expand this powerful aspect to track your progress with clubs, teams, workgroups, or wellness professionals. Here, each member’s weight remains private; it is only the change in individual and group weight that is tracked and charted.

Discover the power of group incentive and encouragement by setting up weight-loss challenges in the work place; or share your determination to get fit as a family. During our rollout of WeightChart Together services, all fees are waived!

Frequent users of WeightChart.com are making great headway in their wellness goals. Soon, we will be sharing the average statistics along with individual success stories. If you have a wellness success venture that you would like to share, we would love to hear from you! Please reply to this message with your story, or use the feedback link below.

As always, your feedback is greatly appreciated. It is from here we learn how better to enhance the site to keep it working for you. Thank you again for using WeightChart.com and sharing its benefits with others!

WeightChart Trackables are Coming!

2009-06-16T15:40:00.000-07:00

Our users have listed out many wellness parameters that they wish to track. From glasses of water drank to runs around your favorite track, from blood pressure to calories consumed and burned, from sprint times to mile times.

Next week, WeightChart.com will be introducing WeightChart Trackables. You will be able to specify anything you want to track and record it quickly right along with your weight and notes.

Stay tuned for more details!

Updates, WeightChart Together services

2009-06-03T12:10:00.000-07:00

Our membership exceeded 30,000 last month.

We are introducing WeightChart Together Services for workgroups, wellness professionals, and private groups such as clubs and teams. We are seeking pilot groups for these services. All fees are waived for the pilot groups!

The navigation on the site changed slightly to streamline the interface and add link for Together services. The navigation changes include the following:

Together Services now shows on the main menu bar
For logged in users, the 'Weight Chart' menu option is changed to 'My Chart'
Milestones menu option is removed from the Menu bar, it is now available on 'My Chart' page
The Photo Timeline button is removed. Photo Timeline is the third tab along with Chart and Data

Now you see a 'Loading' message while the data on the page is loading.

Now it is easier to include or exclude a chart on the Shared Charts display.

WeightChart Together Services including the following:

Change Charts to share only weight loss (or gain)
Group competitions, challenges, and communications
Group statistics and summaries
Custom home page, priority support, and more!

Our Outage During Upgrade

2009-05-31T12:11:00.000-07:00

Our planned outage to upgrade our key database server lasted much longer than plan. It was caused by a known, but expected error during the upgrade. The systems were down for so long because we kept trying to complete the process.

In the end, we gave up on the upgrade and restarted the systems. At no time any information was at risk of loss. We had good backups for everything; they were not needed.

Thank you for your patience.

WeightChart.com Crosses 25,000 Member Mark, Enhances Chart Sharing Features

2009-05-06T14:04:00.001-07:00

Here is our press release from today:

May 6, 2009, Chicago, IL, USA

In its ninth month of operation, WeightChart.com added the 25,000th member this week. In addition to successful marketing campaigns, existing members are starting to contribute to growth by sharing their charts and inviting friends and family to join them at WeightChart.com.

Chart Sharing is an important and distinguishing feature of WeightChart.com. Unlike other ever-expanding groups where your personal information quickly becomes public information, weight charts at WeightChart.com can be seen only by individuals that are specifically authorized by the owner. Charts are always shared privately on a one-to-one basis. Many enhancements to chart sharing features are driven by user feedback. Members are now able to converse with those that they are choosing to share their chart. It easy to comment on progress, share tips, or just say hello! Members are sharing their weight charts with family and friends, fitness trainers, nutritionists, and health care professionals.source:

Other new features include a new photo carousel to see yourself over time, new chart options, revamped milestones page and reminders.

WeightChart.com is free service of the eWoFF Network to track and visualize your weight and wellness. This site features the ability to enter weight, record notes, set milestones, upload photos, and share charts with others. The site also has several health calculators and a nutrition information database.

WeightChart.com and other eWoFF Network sites and services are owned and operated by eWoFF.com, Incorporated, an Illinois corporation based in Chicago, IL USA. The sites of eWoFF Network include WeightChart.com, eWoFF.com, nvytr.com, eShareNow.com, and ThinkingofYouNow.com. You may contact eWoFF.com, Incorporated at info@WeightChart.com with any questions, comments, or additional information.

New Features

2009-04-28T07:30:00.000-07:00

Thank you for being a WeightChart.com user. Our existing members are starting to contribute to our growth by sharing their charts and inviting others to join. We added our 23,000th member earlier this month. This set of upgrades greatly enhances chart sharing features.

Chart sharing now includes the ability to exchange messages with the other members. Now it easy to comment on progress, share tips, or just say hello!
Shared chart screen now includes the summary statistics for shared charts that are selected for display. See how much weight everyone has lost! You can also use the slider to select the date range for shared charts.
The Milestones page is completely updated. It now shows your milestones graphically and in a list. You can are able edit your milestones. The list also shows you relevant data for historical milestones.
Now you can see of your uploaded pictures in a carousel. It shows all of your uploaded pictures along with your weight at the time, notes, BMI, etc.
Now you can delete your wellness entry. Although we did not see a need for it, surprisingly large number of users requested this feature.
The preferences page now allows you to request multiple reminders and opt out of our update message. There are new options to specify your activity level so your BMR can be calculated.
Some bugs are fixed including the ones that allowed you to enter weight for the same date twice and the one the defaulted to 1909 rather than 2009!

Update email sent this week

2009-03-26T09:01:00.000-07:00

Here is the email that is being sent to all registered users of WeightChart.com.

Thank you for using WeightChart.com. In the first 6 months of operation, WeightChart.com has steadily added more than 15,000 members. The site has gone through several upgrades and now contains many exciting new features including:

faster daily, weekly, and monthly charts
private chart sharing
setup for a reminder
photo upload, a nutrition database, and more

You can explore new features by logging into your account or learn more at the new features page.

If you have a weight loss success story and wish to share it on the homepage of WeightChart.com, please reply to this message with your details or use the feedback link below.

As always, we welcome your input for new features. Thank you again for using WeightChart.com and introducing others to its benefits.

WeightChart.com Team

Please click on the following link if you do not wish to tell us your success story or provide feedback.

WeightChart.com feedback

Reminder bug

2009-03-09T08:02:00.000-07:00

Earlier today a few extra reminders were sent by WeightChart.com. We are trying to resolve an issue with the daylight savings time change. The service will not be enabled until the issue is resolved.

We regret the error.

Update:
The bug was not related the the daylight savings time. We have a temporary fix in place. A permanent fix will be deployed over next few days.

WeightChart.com Updates on February 12, 2009

2009-02-13T10:15:00.000-08:00

Thank you for being a WeightChart.com user. We continue to grow well adding our 11,000th member earlier this month. This set of upgrades greatly enhances the chart performance for frequent users.

Chart enhancements include the following:

New enterprise-class charting package is now powering WeightChart.com. In addition to fast response, it will allow for many useful ways to visualize your wellness data
Very fast chart even for multi-year data
Slider on the chart page to instantly explore your data
Weekly and monthly charts
Plot milestones on your chart including your upcoming milestone

Shared Charts now allow you to view multiple shared charts at the same time.

You can now setup to receive reminders when you have not entered weight in selected number of days.

The nutrition pages now have more options to explore food nutrition data.

Infant, boy and girl weight charts are enhanced.

Adult height-weight charts are added.