My Fitness Pal: Beginning Your Fitness Journey With The Help Of Your Smartphone
Spring is finally here, and the folks here at Geek Insider have been talking a lot about dropping a few pounds lately. Earlier this week we reviewed popular weight-loss app Lose It!, and our fans clamored for us to try out another fitness app that has taken the tech-oriented weight-loss world by storm, My Fitness Pal.
Unlike many weight-loss/fitness apps, all of My Fitness Pal’s features are 100% free to all of its users. This is a huge perk in our minds, as the extra cash can be put toward something like a new set of scales or an awesome new Fitbit! After a quick download, we started playing around with the many My Fitness Pal features. Check out what we discovered:
Food Tracker- As with most weight-loss/fitness apps, the all-important food journal is included. My Fitness Pal allows you to log everything you eat in a quick and painless way with their food database of nearly 4 million items. If, on the off chance, your food isn’t there, you can still register it by creating a new food.
Mobile Meets Web – My Fitness Pal offers a free mobile app on both Apple and Android devices, as well as the opportunity to log into their website and access additional features.
Support, Motivation, and Friends All Around – We all know that motivation and a solid support system is what nearly everyone needs to succeed and reach their goals. Thankfully, My Fitness Pal is loaded with opportunities to reach out and add real-life friends or make new, virtual ones via My Fitness Pal’s forums and groups.
Log Exercise – My Fitness Pal also allows users to log their physical activities and workouts, as well as calories burned, based on their weight and time spent doing a given activity.
Personalized Goals – When you sign up to use My Fitness Pal, the app (or website) uses your personal information to construct a goal plan that is tailored specifically to your needs and body.
Works With Lots Of Major Weight Loss Companies – Are you on the Adkins diet? How about Weight Watchers? South Beach? The Zone? Worry not! My Fitness Pal is completely compatible with the vast majority of major diet plans and will help you stay on track, no matter what method you are using.
The creators of My Fitness Pal have made every effort to provide all of the necessary tools for users to be able to reach their individual goals in an efficient and non-intrusive way! After all, diet and exercise should be a part of your life, not take over your life.
Another great perk that comes along with the use of My Fitness Pal is their fantastic blog that offers various beginner workouts that help get you started! Always written in a positive, upbeat manner that is complete with instructional photos, these blog entries by the folks at My Fitness Pal might be exactly what you need to get going on a great workout plan.
The Bottom Line
While you should always check with your doctor before beginning a weight-loss or fitness regimen, My Fitness Pal is a great way to gain the motivation and tools needed to move forward with your goals. Not only do they provide tons of useful food and exercise logging tools, but the community support provided by My Fitness Pal is one of the best ways to keep from falling off the fitness band wagon.