What can I do on the site?

Read this to find out a few ways you can interact with the site, ask your questions, tell us what you're thinking, and make suggestions. We'd like to hear from you.

Browse and learn

Use the menu at left to browse the different sections on Food and Nutrition, Exercise and Activity, News & Research and more.

Track your family's fitness

• Our Weight Tracker tool lets you
  • register as many family members as you like
  • track your family's eating and exercise habits with the Food and Exercise Diaries
  • track weekly weight loss
  • upload photos to keep track of progress
  • see quick stats
  • see a graph of your weight loss
    

  Note: You can weigh in at any of Mackie's 5 Metro locations ... tell them you're a Body Plan member and get MackieMoney discounts!

Ask a question:

• Ask Mackie: Mackie and his experts will be taking your questions and answering a new question each week on the site. Click here to send your question to Mackie.
• Ask the Nutritionst (coming soon!): Mackie's nutrition expert, Julie Fortenberry, answers your questions in her weekly post to "Ask the Nutritionist." Click here to send your question to Julie.
• Ask the Pediatrician: (coming soon!) Ochsner pediatrician Dr. Michael Wasserman answers your questions in his weekly post to "Ask the Pediatrician." Click here to send your question to Dr. Wasserman.

Note that these questions are to be answered on the site, so no personal or confidential information, please.

Tell us your story

• We'd like to know what brought you here. Tell us your story in our Body Plan Forum

Take a Poll

• Visit our polling booth and cast your vote.

More coming soon!

We'll be adding more resources and features soon, so check back. Is there something you'd like to see on the site? Let us know.