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My Favorite ITouch Apps: Lose it! April 9, 2009

Last week I expressed my undying devotion to the greatest gadget around, the one and only ITouch. I also mentioned that one of the things I would talk about from time to time are some of my favorite apps. As promised, here is volume one in my ITouch Chronicles.

Without a doubt my most used app is the Lose it! application. I’ve been wanting to keep track of my eating habits for years now but never really came across a convinient way to do it. That all changed when I downloaded Lose it! for free a few weeks ago. In fact, I haven’t missed inputting a meal since.

You start off by putting in your weight, your goal weight, and how many lbs per week you’d like to lose to reach that goal. Based off of your input it calculates how many calories per day you can consume to reach your goal. After each meal you enter the food you ate and it totals up your caloric intake for the meal/day/week.

I can’t even begin to explain how this helps me with my portion control. My whole life I’ve been a gorger, but ever since I started using this app it’s kept me from overeating. Yes, I still eat cookies, cake, and ice cream, but I keep it under control because I don’t want to pass my allotted calorie count. I’ve lost 5 lbs in about 2.5 weeks.

Even if you eat something that’s not in their list of foods, you can create meals and input how many calories per serving that meal has which is very convenient.

You can even input the exercise you did for the day, from running 3.5 miles at 5mph to walking up the steps casually a few times throughout the day. You can get as detailed as you want, or just include the big ticket items like I do.  Once you input your exercise for the day it then subtracts how many calories you burned from the calories you consumed…another feature I love. If I see I’m 100 calories over, oh well, I’ll just go take a walk and get back even.

I highly recommend this app for anyone looking for an extra tool to help them lose weight. It really makes you feel accountable and is so easy to use. Best of all it’s free.

-DS82