While attempting to appease my boredom with
a random search through the Apps Store on my iPhone I came across quite a few
apps that could be used for fitness and health. The app that caught my eye was
the My Fitness Pal app. After downloading it and figuring out how to operate
it, I gained quite a lot of knowledge. The most important of all was the number
of calories in certain foods that I had been deemed healthy. The second would
be that I was eating well above the recommended amount of calories that I
needed to.
The app has been great to track what I’ve
been shoveling into my mouth and the amount of exercise that I’ll need to do to
burn it off. The issue that I had with it was being able to find particular
foods that were of other cultures. For example, chicken biriani (an Indian
spiced rice with chicken). Within the app I would only be able to find one of
the components and then would have to improvise or add anything close to the
other components, that I am sure did not give me an accurate calculation of
total calories consumed.
I have to admit that I haven’t used the app
religiously. I have often been days without recording my food intake and also
forgotten to record the progress of my weight on there. But all that has changed
as of late. I found that a close friend of mine also had downloaded the app and
we have been keeping each other in check to record our food daily and get in a
workout. The feature of the app that appeals to me the most would have to be
the weight prediction that it gives you after you have submitted your daily
intake. It really puts things into perspective and makes you think whether
eating that devil’s delight pancake at pancakes on the rocks was really worth
it.
Overall, I think it’s a pretty nifty app to
have to have as your sidekick to winning the weight loss battle.
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