Myfitnesspal, Inc
MyFitnessPal is a free smartphone app and website that tracks diet and exercise to determine optimal
nutrients and caloric intake for the users goals. In a Consumer Reports diet rating, MyFitnessPal was rated the best free program (with 83 points) in overall satisfaction, maintenance, calorie awareness, and food
variety.
Tracking food
The user may enter the name of the food or scan the barcode to find the item in a large database of about 2 million foods or may select foods from a list of most frequently eaten foods. Dietitian Michelle Eckhart says a bonus for dieters using such tools is that numbers don’t lie, and I think when people can really see the reality — the numbers — it helps them to adjust their behaviors more quickly. The same food item may contain several variation of the caloric count possibly depending on which country the food item was purchased.
Tracking exercise
MyFitnessPal has different exercises and sometimes the same exercise at different intensities or speeds. The user enters the number of minutes spent exercising and the calories spent is calculated. The calories spent on
the exercise is added to the total number of calories that the user should eat per day.
This excellent app acts as a calorie counter and diet tracker. You start by defining your goal, such as how much weight you want to loose (or gain), how much of this weight you want to loose in a week, a month , . the weight loss frequency and how many times you want to exercise during the week .
If you have your close friends or people with similar goals to you using this app, you are all more committed because if you are not keeping track of your diary , your friends will know and they will encourage you to keep going. It’s quite a brilliant idea.
Lose weight with MyFitnessPal, the fastest and easiest-to-use calorie counter for iPhone. With the largest food database of any iPhone calorie counter (over 3,000,000 foods), and amazingly fast food and exercise entry.
How to use MyFitnessPal
Features:
A food diary and searchable nutrition database that includes thousands of common foods.-
- A diet analysis that shows a breakdown of calories, carbs, fat and protein.
- A recipe builder that allows you to create your own recipes and even submit them to the My Fitness Pal database.
- An exercise log with a searchable activity database and the ability to add your own exercises.
- Quick Tools that allow you to easily enter calories or copy meals and workouts from previous days.
- Downloadable reports showing your nutrition and fitness progress.
- A variety of helpful tools including a smartphone app and BMR, heart rate and recipe nutrition facts calculator.
A community forum to share experiences and get advice from other exercisers-
The Basics.
Pros:
Easy to Use - My Fitness Pal is one of the easiest tracking sites I've tried. I love the 'Quick Tools,' which allow you to enter just the bare bones or copy meals and workouts without having to go through the databases.
Simple - Plenty of fitness websites offer so many tracking and reporting options, it can get overwhelming. My Fitness Pal allows you to track the basics without a lot of extras.
Cons:
the people looking for more detailed reports and analysis of diet and exercise goals may find it falls a bit short. There's no real information about what exercises and workouts you should be doing, which may be a problem for people who need a bit more guidance. You also won't see a breakdown of your diet - no details about fiber, vitamins and minerals, etc., although you do see calories, carbs, fat and protein.
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