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Summary: 80% There...but it's a big 20% missing.
Review: Excellent functionality. Easy to use, easy to work on the desktop and Palm. Great Simple Graphing and Charting.Inadequate reporting. You cannot print your exercise or nutrition journal/logs --- only view on the screen. You cannot trend diet or exercise information over time...for example if your performance improves, or goes down, or body metrics. No updates to product in over a year.
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Summary: 80% There...but it's a big 20% missing.
Review: Excellent functionality. Easy to use, easy to work on the desktop and Palm. Great Simple Graphing and Charting. Inadequate reporting. You cannot print your exercise or nutrition journal/logs --- only view on the screen. You cannot trend diet or exercise information over time...for example if your performance improves, or goes down, or body metrics. No updates to product in over a year.
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Summary: Very Helpful Program
Review: I also agree with the shortcomings mentioned in the above reviews but I do find this program well worth buying! I have had several other 'diet trackers' and none came close to keeping me in check as this one. It is well written but can use some tweaking to be perfect. It does keep me very motivated and informed. I too am very surprised how fast sugar adds up. I have learned a lot about nutrition just by using this program. I like the computer use of this more than on the palm but that is more a person preference. It is very handy to be able to take the info with me. I double check food before I eat it to see how it will fit in my program. I wish it would graph body weight/fat etc but there is a place on your weekly Journaling that you can refer to, just not a graph. It's by far the best program out there at this point and it's short comings are small in comparison to the over all help that this program is. Buy it! I do highly recommend it.
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Summary: Very Helpful Program
Review: I also agree with the shortcomings mentioned in the above reviews but I do find this program well worth buying! I have had several other 'diet trackers' and none came close to keeping me in check as this one. It is well written but can use some tweaking to be perfect. It does keep me very motivated and informed. I too am very surprised how fast sugar adds up. I have learned a lot about nutrition just by using this program. I like the computer use of this more than on the palm but that is more a person preference. It is very handy to be able to take the info with me. I double check food before I eat it to see how it will fit in my program. I wish it would graph body weight/fat etc but there is a place on your weekly Journaling that you can refer to, just not a graph. It's by far the best program out there at this point and it's short comings are small in comparison to the over all help that this program is. Buy it! I do highly recommend it.
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Summary: Insufficient product for tracking even most basic nutrition
Review: I didn't like this product because it doesn't offer strong analysis tools to show the levels of vitamins, carbs, fats, sugars and protein in my diet over time. The lack of analysis capabilities makes it hard to improve your diet because you don't know what you're getting too much or too little of, you just know your total caloric intake. I do recommend another software product called LifeForm (for PC only, not Palm) which is much better for helping you understand the diet and level of excercise you need to maintain to lose weight. I've successfully lost and kept off 10 pounds using LifeForm.
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Summary: Good Nutrition and Excercise Tracker
Review: I had been using Richard Simmons "Food Mover" but it wasn't giving me any insight as to what I was doing wrong. After using the Vivonic for a couple of weeks I could see my problem was in carbohydrates. I also wasn't exercising enough. With the Vivonic and my Palm Vx (I keep it in a wallet holder so I have it with me all the time) I could add foods as I ate them and could see how many calories I had left. The software comes with a wide selection of foods so it is relatively easy to add them into the system. You can also add custom foods and yes, it has fast food listings also. PROS: Convenient to have with me especially since I already own and use a Palm Pilot. Easy data entry. Large database of foods, including fast foods. Easily can add additional foods yourself. Can create your own exercise programs. Updates are easily downloaded from the Internet. Good reporting on calories consumed and calories burned. CONS: No snack areas so must enter snack times with meal times. No weight progress chart in the reporting system. (i.e. it doesn't show statisitcs from my measurements, weight, and body fat percentage). I would like to see my goals being obtained.
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Summary: Good Nutrition and Excercise Tracker
Review: I had been using Richard Simmons "Food Mover" but it wasn't giving me any insight as to what I was doing wrong. After using the Vivonic for a couple of weeks I could see my problem was in carbohydrates. I also wasn't exercising enough. With the Vivonic and my Palm Vx (I keep it in a wallet holder so I have it with me all the time) I could add foods as I ate them and could see how many calories I had left. The software comes with a wide selection of foods so it is relatively easy to add them into the system. You can also add custom foods and yes, it has fast food listings also. PROS: Convenient to have with me especially since I already own and use a Palm Pilot. Easy data entry. Large database of foods, including fast foods. Easily can add additional foods yourself. Can create your own exercise programs. Updates are easily downloaded from the Internet. Good reporting on calories consumed and calories burned. CONS: No snack areas so must enter snack times with meal times. No weight progress chart in the reporting system. (i.e. it doesn't show statisitcs from my measurements, weight, and body fat percentage). I would like to see my goals being obtained.
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Summary: Some nice features, but poor implementation
Review: I like the idea, and the basic features are easy to use, but there are too many problems. 1) Hard to do custom foods. 2) You create a "plan" then alter it, it puts the new/moved stuff onto the PDA, but doesn't remove the old plan features. 3) I have had a lot of trouble with stuff not synching properly. I admit, I haven't tried to do very much diagnosis, but the thing is, you don't get any error messages or other information, you just get missing data. And this can happen both directions. I do like the "meals" feature and "circuits" - it lets you put together common foods or exercises. Other than the synching problems with the plan, the exercise part is pretty good. I don't do a lot of unusual exercises, so I did not have to do customization. But I was able to create a circuit for an exercise video that I do regularly. Its about 10 weight training exercises, so the circuit feature worked great, and I was able to find all of the exercises in the standard database. If you're willing to spend some time diagnosing problems, this might be a good piece of software. I'm just a little too impatient.
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Summary: Doing what I intend to do!
Review: I loaded Vivonic on my PDA just after the holidays--and after one more round of promises to myself to manage my nutrition and fitness more carefully. It's been an incredible help!! Instead of carrying around a notebook to keep a food diary, and then looking up the nutritional info--or worse, typing it into my desktop, I can now make a note of everything I eat and drink AND keep useful, up-to-date records of my workouts! I really like being able to access a report on my PDA throughout the day that includes the most important information--total calories, fat, etc. (Makes it easy to decide, for instance, where to eat dinner tonight!) Then later, at my desktop, I can get very complete information about most any vitamin or nutrient. Sure, there are a few foods that aren't in the food list, but not many--and I find the program very easy to use, and easy to add my custom foods to. Vivonic can't force you to stay in shape, but it CAN make it easier to know the truth about what you're doing and eating. A great tool toward personal fitness and wellness.
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Summary: down fall of vivonic company
Review: I purchase the vivonic software 3 years ago and love the product and would rate the software at a 5 star. the problem I have ran into is the suport of this software. When I purchased the software the teck suport was very helpfull when needed for the first year. After that they did away with their 1800 phone number and will very seldome if at all answer ther eMails. I also cant get a response back from them on this program working with a handheld PC. If you purchas this product and dont need teck suport you will love it but if there needed good luck.
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