Patent ID: 7361143

Claim:
A system for facilitating control of body weight, said system comprising: a computer; said computer stores a software program having instructions causing the computer to receive a profile from a user, the profile including initial body weight; said computer stores a software program having instructions causing the computer to determine an initial time-based plan as a function of the profile received from the user to facilitate control of body weight; said computer stores a software program having instructions causing the computer to selectively present to the user the time-based plan for facilitating control of body weight, wherein the time-based plan comprises the following two options: (a) a time-based structured meal plan schedule being a meal plan schedule automatically based on at least one component of the initial personal profile; and (b) a time-based non-structured meal plan schedule being a meal plan schedule based upon food selections received from the user; said computer stores a software program having instructions causing the computer to provide the user a mechanism by which the user selects between the two options presented to the user; said computer stores a software program having instructions causing the computer to receive an indication from the user indicative of whether the user selected the structured meal plan schedule option or the non-structured meal plan schedule option; and said computer stores a software program having instructions causing the computer to modify the initial time-based plan, in response to the option selected by the user.