If you’re working hard at your New Year resolution to lose weight, listen up. Last week, I reviewed exercise apps to get you fit. Today, I’ll pick diet apps to help keep your diet on track. Why do you need such an app? Because, research tells us that dieters who keep a food diary tend to lose twice as much weight as dieters who don’t.
The Calorie Counter and Diet Tracker from My Fitness Pal just may be the gold standard of food journals. Totally free, it works with the iPhone, iPad, Android, BlackBerry and Windows 7 smartphones. It tracks nutrition information and allows you do custom reports on every bite you eat. Set your goals and use this app to stick to them.
If there is a feature MyNetDiary doesn’t have, I haven’t found it yet. And I’ve been using this app for years. Besides the iPhone and iPad, it works with Android and BlackBerry phones. When entering food, it utilizes something called intelligent searching. That means after a couple of characters, it offers suggestions. It “remembers” your favorites and quickly recalls them with just a few keystrokes as you start to type them. The massive food database is regularly updated and added to.
I am a huge fan of SparkPeople, a popular online community of people trying to lose weight who organize around interests and geographic locations and share motivation, encouragement and inspiration as they follow the service’s first rate diet and exercise suggestions. The app is free. The company proudly boasts that its app offers the most detailed weight and calorie reports available anywhere. I can’t dispute that. It is first rate in every respect.
Of the hundreds of such apps out there today, those are the top three. I have many, many more reviewed and rated for you in my new e-Book called Best iPhone Apps to Lose Weight and Get In Shape, published by Amazon for the Kindle, iPhone, iPad and most Android smartphones and tablets. You can even read it on your computer by getting this free Amazon reading app.
Own an iPhone? Are you tapping into all it's power? PC Mike's new book offers 101 tips, tricks and apps sure to help you get even more out of this amazing communications tool. Click for info
Scale back the easy way: 101 tips on how to save money and stretch a dollar. You WILL save money with this book! Click for info...