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Solution Watch got the scoop on Traineo a new Web 2.0 offering that aims to help people lose weight and increase fitness.

Traineo’s blurb: “traineo is a free and simple website that gives you the motivation and support to reach your weight loss and fitness goals.”

The site is really well designed and has just enough AJAX to make it quick and usable, without getting bogged down with flashy effects. Sign-up process is simple and you enter some personal details and your goal weight. You can also select up to four people (known as ‘motivators’) that will receive weekly updates as you enter them on the site.

You get to enter your daily diet, i.e. what food you’ve eaten for the day, and your daily exercise. The daily exercise screen is really cool – you can select from a bunch of predefined activities and then select the intensity and the length of the workout and it automatically works out how many calories you burned. The diet screen is a bit more difficult – you’re asked to enter the amount of calories consumed, and I have no idea how to work this out or where to even start.

Overall the site works wonderfully and is a pleasure to use - hopefully it will help me lose some weight too. You can read some more about my personal goals here: http://stuart.amanzi.co.nz/2006/08/17/traineo-for-…

Tags: traineo, fitness, web-2.0, solution-watch