A New Me

Name: Lose It! iPhone and iPod Touch application
Homepage: http://www.loseit.com/

At the suggestion of epizoic, I downloaded the Lose It! application (iTunes link) on my iPod Touch. If you’re trying to lose weight, and you have an iPhone or iPod Touch, I suggest you download it. It’s a FREE app, so you’ve got nothing to lose.

At first I was only going to keep track of my weight and exercise with it. But I realized that keeping track of what I eat is important too. And it’s easy to do with this application. All you have to do is search for the type of food you ate and enter how much you ate. And they’ve got supermarket and restaurant foods as well.

To start, you enter in some data such as height, weight, and birthday. You also enter in your goal weight as well as your weekly goal (how much you want to lose each week). The app then gives you a date where it estimates when you’ll have reached your goal weight if you stay on track as well as your calorie budget (by day). Then you just enter in what you eat and what type of exercise you do. The app lets you see where you are on your calorie budget for the day.

You can also enter in recipes to easily include meals that you make from scratch. I made potato and ham soup for dinner today, and it was easy to enter that recipe into the app (I had to guess at some amounts, but that’s because I just tossed stuff into the pot). And it saves the recipes, so if you make things on a fairly regular basis, you just have to enter it once and then select that as the food you ate. It also has the option to enter custom food and exercises (that aren’t in the app’s database), but I haven’t used that yet. But it looks like they make it easy to do.

I’m hoping this application will help keep me on track. I think seeing what I eat and how much I exercise and how that relates to my daily caloric intake will really help. I just need to make sure that I keep entering things in.