WeightChart.com New Features
March 31, 2010
Thank you for tracking with WeightChart. Today we've released Our Results, an exciting report
which shows our members have been doing a great job in tracking their way to wellness. The average
WeightChart member has lost 11 pounds! People tracking six months or more have lost on average 17 pounds!
We've heard from many people about the positive role the simple act of tracking has played in creating a
mindset for making healthy choices. Keep up the good work!
March 18, 2010
Thank you for tracking with WeightChart. As we move from the first of the year we
see a troubling, yet not surprising trend - people are having a hard time keeping
their resolutions alive. We're responding with two features to help combat this
trend.
- Quick Entry - If you choose to receive Quick Entries (visit the Preferences
page) we'll send you periodic emails with a Quick Entry link. You can use this link
to log your wellness without needing to log in, or visit the main site. The Quick
Entry pages are also formatted to be friendly for small, mobile browsers, making
it easy to track your wellness on the go with your iPhone, Android, Palm, or Blackberry
device. We hope you like it!
- My Reasons to Succeed - Take a moment to write down your reasons for wanting
to get in shape, we'll add these to your reminder emails to give you a motivational
boost.
We've also added a great feature to our nutrition section: The Top 100 Nutrient
index. This is a great way to discover what foods are the highest or lowest in a
particular nutrient, like fat, salt, sugar, or fiber. You can also get the top 100
for different categories of foods like Fast Food, Baby Foods, Snacks, and Beverages.
We hope this information will help you make healthy and informed diet decisions.
February 11, 2010
Thank you for being a WeightChart.com user. Growth charts have received the most
attention for this push. Growth charts are geared towards tracking for infants and
children, they allow tracking of metrics associated with development.
- Trackables and Indicators are now part of the Growth chart service.
- Growth charts now can display Trackables and Indicators. (See the post below for
what we think of Trackables.)
- Sign up for new members is now tailored to Weight or Growth charts. This means fewer
steps for everyone when going through the 'Welcome Wizard' - that thing that asks
you for your unit of measurement preference etc...
February 1, 2010
Thank you for being a WeightChart.com user. Today we've rolled out a really nice
batch of changes for you.
- Trackables™
- 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.
- Improved Help
- 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.
December 14, 2009
Thank you for being a WeightChart.com user. Today we've rolled out some changes
to our Together services and changes to make pages faster.
- Together Services
- 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.
- Performance Tuning
- 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.
October 14, 2009
Thank you for being a WeightChart.com user. We've added some great new Together
features and a big feature for people wanting to share their chart in a more public
way.
- New features for WeightChart Together
- Groups! Now the members of your Together group can form
teams for Challenges and Competitions
- Competitions are now self-serve and fully functional
- The interface for Administrators has been upgraded for
ease-of-use and improved capabilities
- New members to a Together service or group can now opt-in
to active Challenges.
- We've added a new Publish Chart capability for people who want to link to a public
version of their chart from blogs, emails, social networks etc...
- If you've got your chart Published, you can generously allow us to add you to our
new Success Stories page. This page features people who've advanced in their wellness
goals by using WeightChart. To participate click on the 'Publish Chart' button from
your main chart page.
February 11, 2010
Thank you for being a WeightChart.com user. Growth charts have received the most
attention for this push. Growth charts are geared towards tracking for infants and
children, they allow tracking of metrics associated with development.
February 1, 2010
Thank you for being a WeightChart.com user. Today we've rolled out a really nice
batch of changes for you.
- Trackables™
- 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.
- Improved Help
- 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.