As a co-founder and developer for Nutrition for You I am always trying to see what our competition is doing and to keep track of the latest trends with online companies.  Not just other companies that are direct competitors, but with how other companies are packaging their services.  One of the most common is Facebook.  Today Facebook was in the news because one of their cofounders Duston Moskovitz and their "top engineer" Justin Rosenstein are leaving to create a new startup.

The reason this is important to Nutrition for You and makes me post periodically about sites like Facebook is advertising.  So many online sites are writing content and updating their site with the main goal of getting as many users as possible.  Not to build a community, but to advertise to you. Facebook founder/CEO Mark Zuckerberg has done a wonderful job of bringing together people with social content that they find useful and entertaining.  Advertising on Facebook should be fine with most people, because if you don't like it, you can quit any time.  No committment required.

But for nutrition and health and weight loss it is a completely different story. Most free nutrition, health, and weight loss sites are trying to sell supplements, and food products, weight loss machines, books, and gimmicks.  All of these are conflicting messages.  By simply going with a free or cheap online service driven by advertising or product sales you cannot be certain that they really have your best interest in mind.

Everyone likes a good deal.  And free is the best deal for many. However it isn't always the best deal if you are trying to commit to something like losing weight permanently.  You need to invest in yourself.   By joining Nutrition for You you will be more likely to commit because you do have a small amount of money invested.  We also provide expert coaching and all of our coaches want you to succeed, and will help you stay committed.  Invest in yourself.  Prioritize yourself.  More importantly commit to changing your relationship with food.  When you commit, so do we. We want every single person that joins our site for weight loss to lose weight and succeed.  We don't want to advertise to you. That makes us feel good and we hope it makes you feel good too. 

Manuel Villacora MS, RD, CSSD was interviewed and provided some good comment sense advice about The Most Common Weight Loss Mistakes with the people at Divine Caroline.

“Make time to go food shopping, to plan your meals, to exercise. Not until you start prioritizing yourself and your plan will you see results.”