Phone “Apps” to Help You Lose Weight and Get Fit
How many of you city girls and guys made a New Years Resolution to lose weight or get fit?
Unfortunately, these good intentions tend to dwindle as the months (or weeks or days…) go by. The more support you can get, the better. Look no further! From calorie trackers to fitness tutorials, you can find pretty much anything you could ever want for managing your diet, weight, and fitness goals. And best of all, they’re all free or nearly free! These tools are perfect for city girl or guy who tends to have there iphone or blackberry glued to their hands.
Recommended BlackBerry and iPhone tools to help manage your weight
These suggestions were compiled by Nadine Fisher, registered dietitian and social media and Internet entrepreneur (and also the woman who designed my blog!). She says the best applications combine the ability to track food intake (eating) and energy expenditure (exercise). They may also provide information on eating out, food preparation and food selection.
Here are a few of her suggestions
Blackberry apps:
- BlackBerry Calorie Tracker by Livestrong: This app helps you with information such as how many calories are in your lunch and how many walking burns, and keeps a digital diary of your daily calories. ($2.99)
- Calorie Counter by FatSecret: This is the essential app to find nutritional info for the food you eat and to keep track of your meals, exercise and weight. (Free)
For more BlackBerry apps, go to appworld.blackberry.com/webstore.
iPhone Apps:
- iPhone Livestrong Calorie Tracker: Lets you calculate daily calorie intake and expenditure. ($2.99)
- Edibles Diet Journal: A cool app that lets you keep track of your calorie intake. ($4.99)
- Health Cubby: Lets you keep track of your weight-loss progress as well as your workouts and the amount of calories you burn each day. (“Lite” version free; full version $6.99)
- Weight Watchers Mobile: Chef Kent Rathbun used the weight-loss program’s online components to keep track of calories consumed and burned. (www.weightwatchers.com)
- Lose it: Set goals, create a daily calorie budget, record food and exercise, and view graphs
of progress with this full-featured weight management app. After you enter your stats, you can create a custom plan, with an end date in mind, based on how much weight you want to lose per week. NOTE: Esther, from Esther’s Weight Loss Journey uses this app and had found it extremely helpful. (See pic of Esther after a 19 pound weight loss)
Check out this site for more FREE apps for weight loss and fitness.
No more excuses! Download those apps now.
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January 20th, 2010 at 4:51 pm
Most of these apps focus on calories in and out and grams of protein, carbohydrate and fat and mg of other nutrients consumed, and body weight. Are there any that give an assessment of how many servings of fruits and vegetables, grains and protein rich foods a person has had? I am trying to help my clients find a way to also focus on getting a balance of food groups…to help them eat food…not just nutrients.