iPhone Apps for Weight Loss and Exercise

Diet and Fitness Applications for iPhone Users

Aug 26, 2009 Michelle Schusterman

These applications for the iPhone and iTouch are designed to help those with diet, weight loss, and fitness goals.

Making the decision to take control, eat smart, and exercise more is a commendable one. Keeping track of progress in a journal is a great idea, but calculating how many fat grams have been eaten or how many calories were burned lifting weights can be complicated and time consuming.

There are dozens of diet and fitness related apps for the iPhone available. Here are a few proven to help users stay on track and meet their weight loss goals, each for less than two dollars.

Lose It! App for Setting Diet Goals

From FitNow comes a free, comprehensive diet app that makes it easy to set and accomplish goals. The user simply enters a food or type of exercise into the Lose It! database to start a daily calorie budget. The program "remembers" previous entries, making it easy for users to keep track of their daily intake.

Each food item has automatic nutrient information, with the ability to track things like fat, protein, carb, and cholesterol intake. With a quick glance, iPhone users can see how many calories they've allotted themselves for the remainder of the day.

iFitness App: A Personal Trainer

Many fitness experts advise changing workout routines regularly, but finding new routines can be difficult. The iFitness app solves this problem, acting as a personal exercise assistant by providing images of people performing different exercises, 230 in all, along with 60 video instructions.

The exercises are organized by body region or the targeted muscle. To read text instructions for the targeted exercises, the user simply double taps the image, which flips to reveal step-by-step guidance.

With iFitness app, users can create a custom workout list, even making several workouts for different days, adding photos and helpful images. Users can also add their own custom exercise, and record their progress with a weight monitor, BMI calculator, and measurements recorder.

iFitness is available for download in the iTunes app store for $1.99.

Track Weight Loss with Weightbot App

Sometimes the simplest apps are the most effective. Weightbot allows users to track their weight, set goals, view BMI, and graph progress.

Weightbot is very intuitive and easy to use. BMI is displayed instantly upon entering a new weight. Switch from pounds to metric quickly and effortlessly. Rotating the iPhone to the right reveals a graph of the user's weight over time, and rotating to the left displays user progress toward set goals.

Weightbot is available for download in the iTunes app store for $1.99.

Mobile Applications for Diet and Exercise

These apps can be helpful for iPhone users looking for ways to stay in shape. Even for those without an iPhone, simply documenting diet and exercise in a journal can be helpful. An application provides an extra dose of organization to help dieters meet their goals.

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