LOUISVILLE, KY (WAVE) – Millions of
people resolve to lose weight every New Year's Day, and there are several
recommended apps and websites to help get their scales moving in the right
direction.
Experts say Calorie Counter from My
Fitness Pal is a great app to use because research shows that dieters who keep
a food diary tend to lose twice as much weight as dieters who don't. Calorie
County might be the gold standard of food journals. It's free, it works with
the iPhone, iPad, Android, Blackberry and Windows 7 smartphones. It tracks
nutrition information and allows users to run custom reports on every bite they
eat.
MyNetDiary is also
recommended. It works with iPhones, iPads, Androids and Blackberries. When
entering food names into the app, it utilizes intelligent searching, meaning it
offers suggestions after users enter the first couple of characters. It also
remembers favorites and quickly recalls them with just a few keystrokes. Its
massive food database is regularly updated and added to.
Sparkpeople.com
is 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.
90 percent of New Year's resolutions
are broken. But people who use these recommended apps have a good chance of
being among the one in 10 who succeed.
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