January 2011 ~ The Reluctant P.O.W.

Losing weight and staying fit gets tougher these days, we are bombed with food ads, our daily lives get us out of the sunlight and excersise time keeps getting squeezed. . Counting calories is only a part of maintaining a diet. challenge. Managing your diet and caloric intake and knowing your nutrional intake is more important, you need to know your eating habits, what you eat and you must be able to track it. Goals are just as important to chart a course of action.

Smartphone apps and computer/web applications are the answer

The number of nutrition and diet related apps available for phones, tablets and compters is mind boggling. Not all apps and programs track the same things. Some components will be more important to you and less to others, so there is no "one size fits all." Here's my list of good points. The ability to:

input your vital statistics
record/track food intake
track overall progress
define goals
motivation, food/excersise thoughts or other pointer suggestions
track nutrients
track and/or suggest excersise with calorie burned information
food label scanning
use intergrated social networking
backup data and/or upload to a server
enter in custom foods
enter in supplements or medicines taken
see your BWI and resting metabolic rate
reports, charts and graphs
the ability to print out records for you or health care provider

Where's my list of some of the best apps for healthy living for someone that's interested in diet, nutrition, exercise, bodybuilding/weight lifting. (in no order)