Patent ID: 8595023

Claim:
A method for controlling body weight utilized by an online personalized weight control program, comprising: receiving, by a computer system, identification of a user, wherein the identification of the user comprising an initial profile representative of characteristics of the user comprising a initial weight of the user; providing, by the computer system, based at least in part on the initial profile associated with the user, at least one first dietary recommendation, wherein the at least one first dietary recommendation is based at least in part on the initial weight of the user and comprising, for at least one first food, a first quantity, a first type, or a combination thereof, which is recommended to control body weight of the user; providing, by the computer system, a plurality of interoperable selectable weight control elements for access by the user to personalize the at least one first dietary recommendation; forming, by the computer system, a dataset based on the initial profile associated of the user and the at least one first dietary recommendation personalized by the user; receiving, by the computer system, an updated data associated with the user, wherein the updated data comprising an updated weight of the user; automatically updating, by the computer system, the dataset in accordance with the received updated data such that based in part on the updated weight of the user, the at least one first dietary recommendation personalized by the user is automatically updated in the first quantity, the first type, or the combination thereof; automatically altering, by the computer system, at least one second dietary recommendation to be provided to the user, wherein the at least one second dietary recommendation is based at least in part on the updated weight of the user from the updated dataset and comprising, for at least one second food, a second quantity, a second type, or a combination thereof, which is recommended to control body weight of the user; and storing, by the computer system, the updated dataset, wherein the updated dataset comprising the at least one second dietary recommendation and being utilized by the user to control body weight.