DIETING LAWS THAT WORK 100% OF THE TIME (PART I) (This is the first of a multiple-part series in the monthly Kneson Software newsletter.) This article contains techniques that you should use in conjunction with any diet. This is not a diet program - it is a set of universal principles that must be followed for a diet to work.

There Is Only One Exercise - And It's Free. There's no way around it - you must exercise to lose weight. But it doesn't have to cost you any money to do it. Run! Running burns the most calories of any Exercise and burns them the fastest - period. Don't believe it? See the chart below. If you want to save time and still get in sufficient Exercise, put on your sneakers, grab a watch, go outside and run ten minutes in any direction then turn around and come back. Running just 20 minutes per day 3-5 days per week will drop weight off of you many times faster than all the contraptions and diets sold on television ever could put together. If you already have healthy eating habits, this one tip alone could be all you need to drop any amount of weight you may be wanting to take off - and it costs you nothing but 20 short minutes a day.

All Infomercial Exercise Contraptions Are a Rip-off. That's right - all. All of the promises and claims and testimonials for the plastic garbage sold on television are a complete waste of money. Think about it. Have you noticed that these contraptions are advertised and then never seen again 6 months later?

Exercise Gives You More Time. Many people claim that they do not have time to Exercise The truth is - you don't have time NOT TO Exercise If you never drove your car what would happen? After sitting for a few months, you would have to have it overhauled by a mechanic. If you had a dog that you never exercised, what would happen? Its life would be shorter. The human body is designed for activity - exercising increases blood flow to the brain, makes you feel a thousand percent better, helps you live longer and will actually give you more time because you will be more productive with a heightened sense of confidence.

Diet In The Grocery Store. Sound strange? Well, think about it. If you don't buy it, you won't eat it. Conversely, if you do buy it, chances are, you will eat it. Possibly as much as 95% of successful dieting happens while you are in the grocery store and no where else.

• Your Food Buying Attitude. The trick is to "surgically remove" only items that are healthy and are on your diet - if you are on one. Buy those items and nothing else. If you can do this it will force you to achieve a fair measure of success in whatever diet you choose without a lot of further effort.
  
  
• Buy Selfishly. Don't buy high-calorie or "junk" foods thinking they you're buying them for someone else (unless you have to - and if you have children, you probably will have to). Buying junk food for the kids, or your spouse is just a psychological way for you to get the stuff into your house. Once it is in your house, you have to use many times the willpower to avoid it than if it was still on the grocery store shelves. You can exercise your willpower for 20-40 minutes in the store or have to endure hours of torment avoiding fattening foods once they are home.
  
  
• Buy Foods With One Ingredient. Focus on the outer aisles in the grocery store. Buy mostly one ingredient foods - not packaged and processed foods with a paragraph of ingredients most of which you cannot pronounce (much less readily digest). Potatoes, green beans, chicken breast, fish, broccoli, lettuce, tomatoes, strawberries - foods that do not need their ingredients listed because it is obvious what is in them - you get the idea.
  
  
• Avoid Packaged Foods With a Paragraph of Ingredients. Somewhat a repeat of the previous point, but warrants further discussion. The more ingredients a food has, or the more processed it is the harder it is to digest which slows weight loss. Focus on foods that do NOT have a paragraph of ingredients - boxed, packaged, processed foods.

Be Careful With New Diets. The Atkins Diet and many others represent a significant risk to attempt if you are not completely aware of what you are doing to your body. Cutting down severely on carbohydrates can be dangerous. It can leave you feeling light-headed, weak and tired - and in extreme cases you can actually pass out. This is because carbohydrates are the main source of blood glucose. Blood glucose is a major fuel for all of the body's cells and the only source of energy for the brain and red blood cells. If more carbohydrates are consumed than the body is using, a portion of the carbohydrates consumed may also be stored in the body as fat.

Simple carbohydrates include fructose (fruit sugar), sucrose (table sugar), and lactose (milk sugar), as well as several other sugars. Fruits are one of the richest natural sources of simple carbohydrates. Complex carbohydrates are also made up of sugars, but the sugar molecules are strung together to form longer, more complex chains. Complex carbohydrates include fiber and starches. Foods rich in complex carbohydrates include vegetables, whole grains, peas, and beans.

Simple carbohydrates convert to fat easier than complex carbohydrates because they are most often associated with refined, processed foods such as soft drinks, desserts, candy, and sugar which are loaded with fat and calories. In addition, if eaten in excess, especially over a period of many years, the large amounts of simple carbohydrates found in refined foods can lead to a number of disorders, including diabetes and hypoglycemia (low blood sugar). Complex carbohydrate rich foods tend to be unrefined and are more readily used by the body as energy.

Cutting down on simple carbohydrates is a good thing. Cutting out the complex carbohydrates is not smart. What fuel will your body and especially your brain use if you cut out complex carbohydrates? Even if you get all the rest you need and eat lots of protein you will still feel weak and tired if you do not have enough blood glucose from lack of carbohydrate consumption.

Mix Diets. The best approach is to do a combination of a low calorie / low carbohydrate diet. Cut down or cut out simple carbohydrates, eat complex carbohydrates while watching the calorie content of what you eat during the daytime, then follow a low carbohydrate regimen in the evening - say after 4:00 pm. This way you maintain the energy you need and burn any excessive carbohydrates when you are active so the body is less likely to store carbohydrates as fat.

Imagener Unlimited Release Status We know that everyone that has ordered Imagener Unlimited is eagerly awaiting its release.

Our development team is busy putting the final touches on the Imagener Unlimited enlargement engine program code, and has improved the scaling and positioning functionality. Since this technology enlarges images using a radical conversion methodology, resulting images need additional functionality to match the original images positioning after pixel conversion. The development team is now optimizing memory usage and rigorously testing Imagener Unlimited for bulletproof performance. Since all Kneson Software products are created using mature, robust C++ algorithms and are optimized for memory cleanup after their operations, our software does not eat away memory the way many popular word and image processing applications do.

The good news for those that have not pre-ordered Imagener Unlimited is that for the next two weeks pricing will remain at the 85% discounted level for both new orders and upgrades. Click here to upgrade your version of Imagener now.

Tell Us What You Want Kneson Software is planning the next version of the Imagener product line, and we want your opinion! We have a number of proposed additions that you can vote on at the Kneson Software Forum:

Kneson Software development is in the process of deciding what features to add to Imagener, so we decided to ask our customers and web site visitors. Choices are:

• Batch processing of 1 or more images (via GUI and Command Line)
• Multiple Page Printing (split large images to print on multiple pages)
• Cropping or Result image in Result Display
• Placing of Result Display via focus rectangle in Preview Display
• Maintaining default in input fields. (can be switched on/off in setup)
• Web Gallery/Photobook creation
• Other (post a reply after voting)

NOTE: FOR THE TIME BEING - ALL IMAGENER UPGRADES ARE FREE TO OUR CURRENT CUSTOMERS. So -- let us know what new features you would like to see in the next version. Click here to vote.

Time Registration Tracking Pre-Release Kneson Software is proud to announce the beta release of Time Registration Tracking - a software tool that works with your current day planner to help you actually focus on tasks you plan. Time Registration Tracking is the missing half of time management - many of us plan our time, but actually doing what we plan is sometimes a challenge. Time Registration Tracking keeps you focused on what you should be doing.

All of the planning in the world will not help you accomplish your goals if the time you use is not focused on the accomplishment of those goals as time goes by during the day. Also, many of us plan our time at the beginning of the week or day and often find ourselves not thinking about our planned activities again. Time Registration Tracking forces you to focus your activities on the goals you have in regular intervals - 15, 30 or 60 minutes.

The main function of the Time Registration Tracking system is the interval popup window. Simply enter the current time in the drop-down list next to Time:To, describe what you have been doing, select the project and specification (activity) and click Insert.

Using Time Registration Tracking has several benefits:

• It changes your subconscious concept of passing time. Wasting time becomes less of an option because you become aware that you must categorize all time in some category - included a 'wasted time' category.
  
  
• It shows you where you spend your time. Knowing where your time goes can help you accomplish more by showing you how long tasks really take and where you can shift your time usage behaviors.
  
  
• It helps you in your planning process. You can more accurately plan what you have to do each day and hit your daily task goals because you can see how long similar tasks have taken in the past.
  
  
• It re-focuses you on your most important tasks after unplanned interruptions.
  
  
• It helps you find ways to cut down and even eliminate some interruptions.

How much would it be worth to your life to increase your focus on what is most important to you? Time Registration Tracking is the only tool on the market today that actualizes your planned goals, and can make you more money while giving you the needed time to do the really fun things you want to do, instead of having to work longer hours and catch up when time is wasted. Click here to read more.