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Today I am proud to present the new diary at ShapeUpClub.com! We’ve in the latest weeks been testing and debuging the new system and it should be much faster and easier to use than the current system.

Hopefully everything will work perfect but please if you have any problems or find any bugs just post in the forum or send us an email and we will fix it right away.

Now we will focus on a new update of the iPhone app that you will see in App Store in the coming weeks!

Enjoy!

Before christmas we told you about the changes we are making on the website. We have been working a lot with this update and finally we are in the end of the development. We promised you pictures and now we are ready to share some with you!

As we said before we have been focusing on speed, adding food to your diary is now really easy and quick! This is the first page of your diary. To the right you can easy add food to your diary. Search, browse, choose from favorites, recent food, add quick calories or add meals.

Now you don’t have to scroll that much anymore, we have divided the list of foods in your diary to different tabs, one for each meal.

Click the magnifier to search for a food. When you find a food that you like in the search result you can add it directly from the list or see more info before you add it. Just click “Add This” and the food will show up in your diary.

You add exercise in the same way. Select the exercise tab in the top. Now just search, choose your exercise, enter the amount and add to your diary.

Most of us have made new years resolutions and I know that many of you will be able to reach your goals in 2010!

As we said we are in the end of the development so we will be testing the new version and make the last touches in the design! Soon you will see the new version of ShapeUpClub.com!

Hi you all!

As always we’ve been a bit busy lately. Right now we are focusing on the changes for the website. I have been working on the diary for the latest week and made lots of improvements. The focus is speed, it should be much more easier to add and create food online. One thing we have made is that we moved the process of adding food to the diary right into the diary, instead of like the way it was before when you had to  make a lot of clicking around to reach your target. Now you can simply just search, choose your favorites or browse your meals and then add the food easy and quick directly from the lists into your diary.
Well, it is a bit hard to explain exactly how this will work, but we will post pictures as soon as possible!

We will continue working with these improvements until Christmas, there is still a lot to do before it’s solid. We’ll keep you updated on the progress.

And as a side note, I know it can be hard this time of the year to focus on your weight loss but just stay in there, Maik wrote a good post about how to stay motivated during the holidays, read it here: http://blogs.shapeupclub.com/adler/2009/12/christmas-is-here-how-to-avoid-gaining-weight-during-the-holidays/

Stay in touch!

This will be just a short post. Just wanted to say that the new version of ShapeUp Club is available for download from App Store!

Also right now we are working on improving the website, we have made a total redesign of the Diary page that we are working with right now! We promise it will be both faster and easier to use!

A user recently asked why you should pay for the online service of ShapeUp Club.
Yes, why should you pay? What else do you get online that is worth the money?
Here are a few reasons:
- a way to backup your data
- motivating charts to track your progress
- a community to discuss health topics with other users

These are the main reasons for the moment and we do have a lot more feature up our sleeves.
This website is very new, and we are regularly doing updates for both the online service and the iPhone app.

As said, we do already have a lot of ideas that we collected from users and ideas that we had from the very start of ShapeUp Club. And the reason why we haven’t fulfilled them yet is simply our lack of time!
We are for the moment three people working in Sillens AB (the company behind ShapeUp Club), whereas Martin is the one responsible for making all of the ideas for the website come to life.
But we are looking into ways to make the development work proceed faster!

It’s great that you ask these questions and bring this discussion up.
I would love to hear if you have any requested wishes for the website, things that would make you feel it is worth your money?

Thank you for sticking with us and sharing your thoughts!
Without them we would be lost!

Sincerely, Tove

Just a small update on what’s happening:

Right now we are working on a new version of the ShapeUp Club iPhone app where we focus on making the sync much faster and much more stable. We will also reinvent the “Custom measurement” in the add food section as many users have requested this. We are working on finding a way to make it easy to understand and use. If you have any ideas about this please contact us about it.

We have also submitted a new version to Apple with some important bugfixes, hopefully it will be released faster than the previously version.

At the same time we are working with the website to create a fast and easy-to-use experience. We have got great feedback from you so keep on contacting us with ideas and comments!

As you can understand there is a lot to do right now at Sillens AB, to be able to make all this happen we need to hire someone who can help us with the ShapeUp Club website. If you are interested please contact us for more information.

Thanks for using ShapeUp Club!

Regards, Martin