DietMaster 2100 Nutrition Software - Personal Edition Diet Software, Awarded 2011 Best Diet Software - Top Ten Reviews

by Lifestyles Technologies, Inc.

Product Details

• ASIN: B0012ERR7W
• Date first available at Amazon.com: June 13, 2010
• Average Customer Review: 2.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #10,183 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
  • #55 in Software > Home & Hobbies > Cooking & Health

Customer Reviews

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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars 1990 Software in 2010?, June 2, 2010

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Karlac (Houston, TX) - See all my reviews

This review is from: DietMaster 2100 Nutrition Software - Personal Edition Diet Software, Awarded 2011 Best Diet Software - Top Ten Reviews (CD-ROM)

A poorly designed front end for a database, this program is highly reminiscent of rookie Visual Basic database programming, circa 1995. The program rolls over dead, with no graceful exit, when a wrong character is entered in a box, and the interface is far removed from what one would expect starting the second decade of the 21st century. It is extremely clumsy to enter information in any category, from exercise to meals; individual food data must be entered in ALL meal categories in order for it to be used in a category other than that in which it was originally entered, and this type of poor interface design and functionality is inherent throughout the entry part of the program. Reports are not too bad, but are mostly too inflexible to be usefull.

All in all, don't bother with this program. I don't know if there is anything better out there, but this software has no resemblance whatsoever to the glowing reviews.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Just don't try and reinstall it, March 7, 2010

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W. Trettin - See all my reviews
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This review is from: DietMaster 2100 Nutrition Software - Personal Edition Diet Software, Awarded 2011 Best Diet Software - Top Ten Reviews (CD-ROM)

This program worked pretty good when I first installed it. However, when I upgraded to Windows 7 and needed to reinstall it, I ran into a brick wall. To install it on a new machine, or the same machine whose OS has been replaced, you have to run a licensing transfer utility which gives you a code you give to DietMaster. They are supposed to then give you a code which lets you activate it on the new computer, but after repeated attempts, I have never been able to get a reply from them.

I'm looking for something to replace this program with, I won't be buying anything else from DietMaster.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Not a good program, March 18, 2011

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A. Jones "Z" (Salt Lake City, Utah United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: DietMaster 2100 Nutrition Software - Personal Edition Diet Software, Awarded 2011 Best Diet Software - Top Ten Reviews (CD-ROM)

I regret not trying a trial of this product before buying. The program is inflexible in the amount of food you can log. If you're not eating their preset amounts of each food item, then you can't log it accurately. I contacted their customer service and the woman could only tell me that those amounts were what the USDA designated as the amount people should eat. Want to eat 1/2 cup of something instead of 1 cup, or 20 grams instead of 50? You can't log it in that way.

The customer service is just one person, as far as I can tell. I called twice and selected a different menu choice each time, and both times I got the same woman (Lisa). She was very brisk the first time I called, and testy and unprofessional the second time--often putting me on hold and starting to talk to someone else she was with even before she pushed the hold button.

This product might be a good buy for someone who is looking for someone to tell them what to eat and who won't need to contact the company for questions. If this is you, then this may be the program for you. However, if you eat specialty foods, or if you want to customize the amounts of food you consume to fit your own personal needs, or if you know quite a bit about nutrition and do not need someone else to guide your diet, this is not going to be the program for you.

Ultimately, I was very disappointed. After all the glowing reviews I'd read, and the fact that they have a program for professionals, I had expected something much more tuned to the needs of the user than what I received.