Best Of

I've been using Gold for almost a year and it's been extremely valuable in so many ways. It helped me get off most of my vitamin supplements because it became easy to figure out which foods meet my nutritional requirements (through the Oracle function, where if you are low in, say, potassium you can easily get a list of foods that are high in potassium that you can then use to boost your stats, same for every other nutrient). By figuring out this way which foods are my personal superfoods (I'm a vegetarian) that I can eat every day.

I have shrunk my body mass index by choosing the "lose 5 lb a week option," gained a lot of energy and reduced my dependence on supplements (which are more expensive than food). I can also print out my nutritional records in a number of different formats (week, 2 weeks, month, year, etc.) and take them to my doctor or just save them in my own health records. I can also track my blood pressure and other vital signs and see the changes over time, which is useful for me because I have inherited high BP.

It's inspiring to see your trends in Gold. You can easily call up graphs of how much weight you lost, how your consumption of saturated fats (or other things) changed over time, etc. That was a real motivator for me to keep going with the program. ]You also see how much your exercise intersects with your consumption, and how many more calories you can eat over your baseline based on that day's exercise, without gaining weight.

I decided recently to try the Zone diet because although I'm at my ideal weight, I want to reduce fat intake which causes a lot of health problems. Cronometer Gold lets you choose from different diet plans (the Zone is 40/30/30 carbs/protein/fat) and if you choose one of the preset diet options, it automatically calculates the target percentage of carbs/fats/protein you can consume each day and you can see how you are doing in real-time as you input your food. That is an ingenious feature, I would have had trouble trying to do those calculations myself. You can also set your own parameters for carbs/protein/fat targets based on whatever diet you want to follow, and can reset it to another diet whenever you choose.

I guess what I'm saying is that the cost of Gold is minimal compared to the excellent value you receive, if you are prepared to take your health seriously. I love it and plan to renew my annual membership when it comes up (shortly). I recommend Chronometer to all of my friends who are complaining about their weight.

What about those of us who bought the Gold upgrade within 15 minutes of using the free version? I'm sure I might offer some value.