The Best Apps for Keeping Track of What You Eat

Are you keeping track of what you eat?  It’s often called the best way to ensure your weight management efforts will be effective. Diet is, after all, the top factor identified by science to determine whether you will gain, maintain or lose.  If you are tracking, the odds are, you’re doing so – or want to do so – with an app.

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Finding a Weight Loss App That Helps You Stay on Track

Many dieters and calorie counters are using weight loss apps to help them stay on track. They provide services such as calorie counting, exercise logs, group support, goal setting, and track progress. Do they really help? Learn how to use these tools to your advantage and get the most out of technology.

What are they and what do they do?

• SparkPeople – The SparkPeople app is a spinoff of the popular weight control website, offering nutrition and fitness tracking.  Its nutrition tracking includes an extensive and always-growing database. It also has a barcode scanner feature that allows dieters to scan the products they’ve purchased so they will be automatically entered into their food log, instead of having to enter them manually. It can also be synced to many of the most popular fitness tracker brands so your daily exercise can be automatically entered, as well.

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