An app make it easy

Seven weeks into my weight-loss journey, I discovered the free Lose It app on the new phone I had just received for my birthday.

Not only did this app make logging food daily much easier, but it also enabled me to track essential nutrients and projected realistic dates for achieving my goals. It took a few weeks to set up all the foods and recipes for my meals, but once this info was in the data base, my daily logging was a breeze.

Daily food entries can also be logged online at Lose It instead of/or in addition to using the phone app.

I briefly downloaded another weight-loss app that supposedly tracked some additional nutrients and had a larger data base of restaurants.  This app required more personal information just to sign up, and it was personal information that did not pertain to any fitness goals. After I completed the sign-up and set the app up for use, I saw that it had allotted me over 200 less daily calories than Lose It. At the time, I had already lost 38 pounds, so I promptly deleted the other app. I had planned to use this app along with Lose It, but decided it wasn’t worth the memory use on my phone. Apparently, the default was set to accommodate all metabolism levels.

Lose It has a default set to age 35, but it is changed when you entered your own age. It can be changed again if you find your own age does not accurately respond to your true metabolism.  Lose It has a help section, where it explains how activity levels are computed to arrive at daily calorie allocations and how these can be changed to accommodate more or less activity.

 I use the free version of the app, but a premium version is available that allows users to sync the app with other devices to track fitness and health programs.  The free version has an extensive data base of brand foods and restaurant foods that is very helpful and is constantly expanding during updates.

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