The Healthy Thread
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Long post but some of you might enjoy reading all this. For those that asked about the app I've been, using, Lose It!, here are some screenshots and explanations of some of the key features.
Daily Calorie Totals - Shows what your budget is, what you've consumed, what you've burned off, how much is left.
Daily Calorie Totals with Week View - Shows what you've consumed per day and a running total of how low/high you are against your target.
Daily Nutrients - Shows what you've consumed per day and where you are against the weekly average.
Nutrients - Shows the breakdown of fat, carbs, and protein. I use this one a ton to make sure I'm getting my ideal percentage of protein per day. Shows the per-day breakdown for that week.
Daily / Weekly Goals - Show's where you are against goals including nutrient percentage and total amounts. Includes weight goals, body fat goals, step goals, workout minutes, workout calories, etc.
Protein breakdown per day - Green line show target, blue bars show progress per day against that target. The protein target can be hard, mainly because I've found a lot of protein comes with more carbs than I want.
Daily Food Log - Allows for Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner, Snacks, Exercise, and Notes. Can add food / ingredients manually, or using bar codes. All things that are entered are stored for reuse.
Weight Goal Tracking - Basically, you enter your existing weight, and enter a goal weight. Then you choose what you want to try and lose per week: 2 lbs, 1 1/2 lbs, 1 lb, .5 lbs. I'm sure you can do weight gain as well. You can also choose to maintain current weight. I just manually enter my weight every morning. That's it.
Here's what the weight goal UI looks like.
As far as tracking workouts, I use a trio of apps (I don't know why they don't combine into one) called MotiFIT, MotiFIT Run, and MotiFIT Ride. The Polar heart rate monitor app doesn't work with it's own product because of a bug. Hilarious. The MotiFIT apps are nicely designed and sync with the HR monitor.
That's a post-workout view of heart rate, calories burned, and average heart rate.
Here's a cycling view, post-ride.
And overall details from cycling. The running app does the same thing.
I also use Strava when cycling because the UI is much nicer and it tracks "segments" of your rides, so you can see progress against beating those segment times. Really cool. Both cycling apps are just using the GPS for distance / speed; I don't have a computer on my bike this year (but next year I will).
It took me a while to figure out how all of this needs to connect to prevent data overwriting, and to ensure I'm using the same apps for calorie burn tracking and heart rate. It's basically doing this:
MotiFIT: I track all weight workouts and indoor cardio heart rate with this. It pushes to the Nike Health app's Workouts section.
MotiFIT Run and Ride: I track running and biking with these for heart rate, speed, distance, etc. They are imported into the MotiFIT app, and do not push to Nike Health.
Strava: I only use Strava for cycling but don't use the heart rate and calorie data, because even though it shows heart rate, it doesn't use it to calculate calorie burn (weird). I basically use Strava for the distance tracking and segments, and nicer UI design.
Nike Running: I only track running distance / pace / speed with Nike Running, because I've been using this for years and have a lot of data saved on it. It syncs with heart rate, too.
KNOWING IS HALF THE BATTLE.
- thats cool, i used it in the past, but entering everything i eat had become a boring task and i was all nervous when i forgot a day. But its a good app.Ben99
- That's pretty awesome! In May I weighed 188. I'm down to 160, looking to get down to 155 and maintain. I feel wonderful and have more energy than ever.kona
- This app might help me lose those last 5 pain in the ass pounds.kona
- Awesome Kona! You and I talked about this stuff in person YEARS ago. I'm so happy with what I'm achieving.mg33
- Ben - I simply can't go to bed if I've not entered everything. I pretty much do it as I'm eating. It's true about habits forming. I'd go nuts if I skipped one.mg33
- But I wish the app had a "screw it" meal where you could acknowledge you ate something terrible, but couldn't total up the nutrients.mg33
- Kona - are you taking a fat burner at all? I'm having great success from Myokem Pyroxamine. I also use their pre-workout product.mg33
- Downloading nowbklyndroobeki