Keeping track of your nutrition and health is vital to see where you started, where your going, and a plan to get there.
Here are my top 5 favorite apps to help keep your health a priority!
#1 My Fitness Pal – has one of the largest food databases available in a food tracker, Whether you’re making something at home or eating out, MyFitnessPal can help you log it, and supports a number of popular restaurant menus. As you log your food, you get a complete picture of your diet, not just your overall calorie intake—that includes your sodium intake, your vitamin intake, cholesterol intake, and other nutritional information that can give you a better idea of what you’re eating beyond a simple daily calorie limit. It also has a Huge community which is great for support, recipes, tricks, tips, and motivating success stories.
#2 Meal Logger – works on your desktop, iPhone, or Android and is super easy. Instead of entering each food and portion size individually, you just snap a picture of your food and upload it to your journal. You can also put a note that corresponds with your picture (i.e. “2 scrambled eggs and sweet potato”). Keeping track of your food literally takes 30 seconds! It also is fun and not so obsessive as some apps out there. You can also add a “Daily Note”, which patients have been using to enter some of the symptoms they had that day, keep track of blood sugar levels, or let me know that they had a stressful day.
#3 Shop well -tells you what’s in the food you’re buying at the grocery store and offers suggestions of new foods to try that fit with your lifestyle.
Simply scan any item in the grocery store and we’ll give you all of the information about that product. Create a profile with your food interests, and we’ll suggest similar products that best match your interests right in the store you’re standing in.
#4 My Diet Coach – helps you find your inner motivation, stay on track, make healthy lifestyle changes, resist food cravings, avoid exercise laziness and other weight loss difficulties by setting goals, tracking progress, good reminders (to drink water, walk, etc), motivation, fun rewards (who doesn’t like rewards) …
Now you have all the tools to make this year the most successful one yet!
Fit Chic