Using iPhone for Weight Loss

For those who are determined to lose weight, you can use your iPhone to achieve your fitness goals.

Aside from communication and entertainment, iPhone can also help people in losing weight. eHow suggests 3 ways to lose weight using your iPhone.

1. Without iPhone Apps

Handy features that your iPhone already has can help you keep track of your eating and fitness activities.

• Calculator – for tracking your daily intake of calories.
• Notes – can be used as a food journal where you keep a record of what you’ve eaten in a day.
• Timer – for keeping track of the time you spend exercising.

2. Get Free iPhone Weight Loss Apps

Check out any of these 10 free iPhone Weight Loss Apps.

• Calorie Tracker – allows you to look up and track daily calorie, fat, carbohydrate, and protein intake.
• Lose It! – a weight management app that lets you set goals, create a daily calorie budget, record food and exercise, and view graphs of progress
• 40-30-30 – help in quickly calculating the percentage of carbs, protein, and fats in your meal. This way, you can be sure that you’re getting the right nutritional balance.
• iPump Free Workout – contains sample exercises and two full body workouts targeting major muscle groups.
• StepTrackLite – is a simple pedometer that measures and tracks physical activity such as strolling, walking, or running.
• iMapMyRun – allows you to track the distance, time, pace, and speed of your fitness activity real time with the use of GPS technology.
• iSPINNING – lets you design workouts to see and track heart rate, time in target zones, calories burned, cadence, speed, distance, and power.
• Pret-a-Yoga Lite – is for yoga beginners who might be threatened by the gym environment, or advanced yogis looking to take their routine on the go.
• 2Fat – helps in calculating your body fat percentage and BMI by simply selecting your sex, weight, and waist measurement.
• Heartbeat – helps you manually track your heart beats per minute (bpm), especially after a tough workout.

3. Buy iPhone Weight Loss Apps

• Pedometer App – it helps you to track the number of steps you have walked in a given day, the distance traveled, as well as the amount of calories you have burned. Try any of these 8 pedometer applications for iPhone.
• iFitness – is like having a personal fitness trainer only for $1.99. It recommends exercises and provides instructions with pictures. This app allows you to create custom exercises, work different trouble spots, and create workout routines.
• EatingWell Healthy in a Hurry – for only $2.99, it helps you quickly find healthy recipes. It contains 200 quick, simple and easy-to-prepare recipes from the EatingWell test kitchen and every recipe includes nutritional information.

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