Fitness App Help
Fitness App Help
With 40 million downloads and over 100 million pounds lost, Lose It! is on a mission to help the world achieve a healthy weight through calorie tracking and personal nutrition education.
What fitness/calorie app do you use (if any)?
I used to use LoseIt! but did not want to pay to upgrade to the full version without knowing how much help it would be. I’m just looking to upkeep my fitness and lose some weight in the process. It helps me to track everything and having everything on my phone makes it even easier. Also, the LoseIt! app does not take the iWatch Fitness Ring app data, so all of my workouts aren’t added in. Ideally, I’d love to have one place that can interact with my watch and phone data, where I can input my intake on a predicted schedule. If that makes any sense.
Does anybody here use anything like that? If so, what are your suggestions and thoughts? (PS, as I am new to lemmy, please let me know if this should be posted elsewhere).
I would checkout Cronometer. You can do a bit more for free like entering in your own macros which I think is paywalled on MFP.
Not sure about your devices but it's synced with my scale and watch, so it captures my workouts and everytime I weigh myself.
I ended up paying for Gold and I can have up to 8 different group/meals and set macro schedules depending on the days of the week.
They do manage their one food database, so if you scan something that's not there, you're going to have to add it yourself and it may take awhile to be officially added.
Oh last cool thing that I didn't know. Not all foods/macros are the same calorie wise. Some food for example may be closer to 3.5 cal or 4.2 per gram of protein for example so the calorie count may not exactly add up sometimes.
Thanks for the suggestion! Chronometer looks very similar to LoseIt but with a few extra thorns. I’ll give it a go! Thanks!
Not all foods/macros are the same calorie wise. Some food for example may be closer to 3.5 cal or 4.2 per gram of protein for example so the calorie count may not exactly add up sometimes.
Do you have a source for that? My understanding is that the reason the labels may not add up is purely due to the degree of rounding that is permitted. I realize that the effective calories per gram may vary a bit, but I don't believe that's accounted for on the nutrition labels.
Besides that I haven't seen the scientific studies that back it up but there is also an answer from the cronometer forums where they said it's based on Merrill and Watts work summarized in the book Energy Value of Foods: Basis and Derivation
https://forums.cronometer.com/discussion/2604/macros-and-calories-dont-add-up
Generally I still just follow the macros though. They also have a Thermic Effect of Food option but I choose to ignore that option as well.
I use FitNotes (Android only). I really like because of how simple it is. Keeps track of your rep maxes, volume, estimated 1RM, etc.
I think you typo'd FitNotes which, indeed, is a great app.
Yup! Thanks for the correction!
FitNotes is great, I will never need anything else for lifting. Totally customisable, paid a one-off charge to use it and was very happy to do so.
I use MyFitnessPal to track calories and macros, it could be better but it works (for now). I don't think I could justify paying a subscription for the service, so we'll see - seems like the company might be going in a weird direction.
Runkeeper for tracking runs, GPS seems good. I actually pay an annual subscription for that which I don't really do with apps. I also have some kind of pace calculator (Pace+) which has come in handy.
I've been using MacroFactor since January and it's been the best app for me since my main struggle is simply choosing what my calorie intake should be. It doesn't track workouts (by design) but if you consistently log your weight and food, its algorithm tells you how much you should be eating based on your weight loss goal rate, and constantly adjusts as it gets more data.
I use Jefit to track my gym workouts. The app is pretty good, and free. The website is a little clunky but it does have all the features of the app. For macro tracking I use Cronometer, I cook a lot of my own mealprep meals and it's easy to add a custom recipe and just set how many servings it makes and let it figure out the nutrition data.
Edit to original post: I’m an idiot. LoseIt! Does automatically track with the apps across the devices. It was just taking a moment to update from my iWatch to my iPhone and then to the app since it will only count one device (to avoid double counting). And when it did update, I didn’t realize that I was looking at the wrong day lol