Some people eat for the experience, others eat to survive… If you’re on either side of that spectrum or somewhere in the middle, wouldn’t it be nice to be able to easily track your calories consumed and burned so that you can start to manage your diet? Research has shown that people who record the food they consume lose twice as much weight as those who don’t…
While you’re chewing on that, ask yourself: What if I had my own personal nutritionist in the palm of my hand every time I put food into my mouth?
These eleven iPhone apps will put that dietician in your pocket, helping you take the guess work out of eating. Here is the breakdown:
Lose It!
Free
If you’re just getting into calorie tracking and you want to try before you buy then this app is for you. Lose It! allows you set daily calorie budgets and track your progress against them via a searchable database of food and exercises. Get into calorie management for free with this iPhone application, and see how it works for you.
Sensei for Weight Loss
Free to Current Online Members
Sensei is a holistic approach to healthier eating developed by doctors, dieticians, and psycologists. The system helps you develop personalized meal plans, receipes, and shopping lists based on what and where you like to eat, helping you develop the perfect plan around you.
CalorieCheck
$.99
CalorieCheck provides detailed nutritional information from the United States Department of Agriculture for over seven thousand different foods. This app doesn’t manage your caloric intake, but it gives you insight into the nutritional information around some of your favorite foods, empowering you to make better decisions.
Calorie Pad
$1.99
Calorie Pad allows you to track your caloric intake from over six thousand products and menu items from major restaurants. Some other features include: the ability to mark favorite foods for quick repeat entry and the ability to add partial and multiple amounts of foods giving you a customizable data entry tool to track your daily intake.
Calorie Abacus
$1.99
This app takes a different approach to tracking caloric intake and is designed around the question: "If I am allowed to eat 1,000 calories, what are my options?" Calorie Abacus allows for meal creation flexibility that lets you easily find food substitutes to meet your daily nutritional goals.
LIVESTRONG Calorie Tracker
$2.99
The most popular iPhone calorie tracking app is a mobile companion tool for Daily Plate users at LIVESTRONG.COM. This tool allows you to track your daily caloric, fat, carbohydrate and protein intake, while giving you access to more than 525,000 food and restaurant items. You can also track the calories that you burned with a bunch of preloaded fitness activities to choose from.
Nutrition Menue – Calorie Counter
$2.99
Provides nutritional information for over 79,000 food and restaurant items and includes a calculator to help you identify your Food Score so that you can rest assured that your next meal fits within your dietary requirements. There is no monthly subscription fee associated with this app, so $2.99 is all you have to pay for mobile nutrition zen.
Fast Food Calorie Counter
$2.99
Fast food and nutrition sound like they don’t go together, but the people at Concrete Software have created a calorie tracking app that focuses on fast food. There are 5,972 menu items from 55 top fast food restaurants and that list is growing fast. This app gives you the ability to sort foods and arrange restaurants in a way that makes sense to you, while tracking calories, fat, carbs, fiber, and protein.
Food Diary Calorie Counter
$2.99
Keep track of 90 days worth of daily food intake, while calculating your Body Mass Index (BMI) with this app. You can also set a target number of calories to eat each day, enabling you to manage your weight based on your gender, height, weight, and age.
Calorie Track
$2.99
This no frills app includes data from the United States Department of Agriculture and allows you to set calorie and fat goals, and graph your food intake history to measure trends and progress
Calorie Minder
$3.99
Calorie Minder is a web based app that has been carefully designed around user experience, giving you access to over 7,000 foods and 32 kinds of exercise. You also have the ability to add custom foods, meals and exercises so that adding these items throughout the day is easy. What you then get are detailed nutrition reports that identify which foods are supplying you with the most fat, calories, carbs and more.
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