I can bypass the treats that I’d previously justified quite effortlessly (it’s a bargain, I’ll space them out over the week (yeah right)). I naturally find myself eating smaller portions, eating whole fruit rather or have a smaller fruit juice, a smaller amount of chocolate (family bars are not more economical) or cheese - grated, not sliced, and not with every meal). It takes less than 10 seconds to work out what you’ve eaten and add in the calories, so for around 40 seconds of effort per day you can keep track of your intake. I lost 9 pounds and gained 1 in the week after finishing the 1st. No doctor would view a patient gaining muscle as a result of physical exercise and good diet as a bad thing- in fact it would be the exact opposite- so it’s a big flaw in the app that it’s oversimplified design causes it to do exactly that. I think this is especially important as this app is attached to the NHS. If it took time spent on exercise during the week into account, I think the app would understand that I’m not gaining ‘unhealthy’ weight (fat) but ‘healthy’ weight (muscle), and creating a much healthier lifestyle for myself which is ultimately supposed to be the whole purpose of the app. The app gives you an option each day to input any exercise you’ve done and the time you did it for but it has no bearing on the overall experience whatsoever, as the data is not taken into account at all so the feature might as well not be there. However, when I gained muscle, the app merely saw this as a bad thing when really it’s just an indicator that I’ve formed a healthy diet + exercise routine. For the first 3 weeks I was using the app I lost weight through healthy eating and exercise which the app responded well to. My one issue is that the app has an over simplistic and slightly dangerous mindset of ‘weight loss = good, weight gain = bad’. I like that is doesn’t ask you to other think weight-loss as a lot of the more complicated apps do. The app is fine if a little on the basic side.
Am only on first week so can’t comment on weight loss yet but recording what you eat certainly makes you cut down and chose healthier options.
#Calorie calculator app free
However for a free option I am happy enough to work out things for myself. Regarding excercise, again previous app recorded calories used and this came off your total for the day thus encouraging excercise. Another good thing was if you regularly ate a certain home cooked meal you could enter all the ingredients once then just had to click on a portion of say Shepherds Pie to enter the calories. This would be a good step to further develop the App. It is not as refined as previous App ie with it all you had to do was enter quantity of food and it would work out calories for you. About to fork out again when I spotted this free option and thought I would give it a go. Having previously used the Nutra Check App to lose weight I am familiar with the concept of the food diary.
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