"I'm on a diet" is probably one of the most popular phrases to be uttered by anyone on this side of the planet. In a world where food rules all, we certainly have to watch what we eat and how much of what we eat. Android developers have certainly done their part to help out dieters in ways that were not even imaginable ten years ago. Check out my list of the top five dieting apps available for Android devices.
1. Diet Assistant: Like most other dieting apps, the Diet Assistant app was created to actively help its users to maintain a steady diet and lose weight. But it not only allows the user to enter their own weight and set a target weight, it also recommends specific diets and meal options personalized to the user's tastes. Vegetarian? No worries. Diet Assistant includes meal plans for vegetarians, pescatarians, low GI, high-protein diets, and many more. It's not only meant for losing weight, but also for maintaining it and helping to make a healthier lifestyle for yourself. The app includes dedicated shopping lists for specific diets, an in-app forum for discussion of diet tips/tricks, a built-in BMI calculator, charts for diet monitoring, a database backup option, and an intuitive widget for the home-screen. The pro version, which costs $2.99, also includes the ability to create your own diet plan through the Custom Diet Editor.
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2. Calorie Counter- MyFitnessPal: MyFitnessPal isn't your average calorie counter. This application has over 3 million different foods in its database, complete with nutritional information and other important details to know about the food you're putting in your body. The app's sleek UI makes it very simple for users to navigate and does not involve much of a learning curve. Your data from MyFitnessPal syncs with the web, which will allow you to log in from both a computer and a mobile device to add information to your profile and track your progress. All of your data is backed up you know you'll never lose it. There's also a social aspect to the app. You can easily add your friends, so you know you'll always have a support group to diet with. You're not alone!
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3. Fooducate: This is an application that's gotten its share of rave reviews in the Play Store. Although Fooducate doesn't have quite the database that MyFitnessPal does, with only 200,000 unique food products, it does take the features a step further. You can scan the barcodes of food products in grocery stores which will give you additional details not found on the box, and will also offer healthier alternatives that can be found in the store. The app gives each scanned food a "nutrition grade" ranging from A to D. You'll learn about different foods and ingredients such as excessive sugar, tricky trans fats, high fructose corn syrup, controversial food colorings, additives and preservatives, genetically modified organisms (only in pro version), additives and preservatives, artificial sweeteners and more. Users have reported that the app really does work and has helped them with their diets and weight-loss goals. The premium version, which costs $4.99 in the Play Store, has no ads, priority support, GMO information, and personalized ratings for heart health, low cholesterol, hypertension, vegetarian, and vegan profiles.
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4. My Diet Coach: My Diet Coach is focused on keeping the user motivated and focused on his/her diet in order to succeed in their weight loss goals. No guarantees, but the app states that it will keep you on track, help you to resist food cravings, temptations, emotional eating, exercise laziness, and other obstacles through motivational arguments, guidelines, helpful and necessary reminders, notifications with your goal and motivational photos. The app also offers perseverance tips, and a food-cravings timer. Users have said that the app actually works, and there's certainly no better way to judge effectiveness than by asking the users themselves. In the Pro version, which costs $2.99, users are given a diet and meal planner, BMI/BMR calculators, a diet journal and a weight tracker with charts and graphs.
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5. LiveStrong Calorie Counter: Although I hate to advocate for anything with Lance Armstrong's name attached to it at this point, the LiveStrong Foundation's health and wellness app is simply one of the best available on the Play store. The LiveStrong Calorie Counter is more than just a calorie counter. The app tracks calorie, fat, carbohydrate, and protein intake in seconds, giving users access to the MyPlate web platform at LiveStrong.com, which has a database of over 1.3 million different food products. What makes this app different from the others is that you can track your exercising and activity as well, with thousands of exercises/activities in the database. This calorie counter personalizes daily goals based on your intake, an easy to use progress chart, a motivational community that will inspire you to stick with your goals, water tracking to make sure you stay hydrated, daily reminders to keep you on track, and constant web syncing to keep all of your devices up to date with your most recent data.
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…aaand of course if you just feel like eating junk food, go grab the Epic Meal Time game from the Play Store…
Is there anything we missed? Please let us know in the comments.
Happy dieting!
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