Healthy Apps for your iPad – Count Those Calories!
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Now that the summer is over, you should not forget about all the hard work you put in to look great for your vacation. It’s time to continue to watch what you eat and keep those calories under control. The following is a list of applications for your iPad that will help you with that.
Calorie Tracker – Diet and Fitness Tracker
If you like Lance Armstrong’s foundation, this application is a version of the LIVESTRONG.COM website. This is an iOS universal application that will sync your food diary across all your iOS devices and on the web.
Calorie Tracker can help you reach your diet, weight loss and fitness goals by tracking your daily calories and exercise. Lose weight easily by setting your weight management goals and track your calories and progress with the online food journal. The Calorie Tracker lets you look up or track your daily calorie, fat, carbohydrate and protein intake. You will also have access to The Daily Plate at LIVESTRONG.COM, which offers a comprehensive nutrition database. Calorie Tracker is available for download for $2.99.
If you happen to be health-conscious, you should check out GoMealsHD for iPad, a Sanofi-Aventis application designed to help you make smarter food choices. The application allows you to search thousands of foods and dishes from popular restaurants, grocery stores, as well as the items you have in your own kitchen, to easily see the nutritional value of the foods you eat. And if you plan to eat out, the app’s restaurant locator helps you easily find places nearby and compute the nutritional information of the items in their menu, to help you make better choices.
GoMealsHD offers:
- A database full of nutritional information on your favorite foods and restaurant menu items, powered by CalorieKing
- A food tracking tool to record your meals
- A restaurant locator
GoMealsHD is available for download and it’s free.
MyNetDiary – Food and Exercise Diary for iPad
This is an online diet log service waiting for you on the App Store. The application is a very good way for diet planning, management, and food tracking. The MyNetDiary application is a one-stop diet solution. It offers a very large foods database letting you enter your foods with only a few taps, and making diet tracking fun.
The application is very easy to use. The user interface provides multiple tabs for you to find all the information needed according to your diet plan. You can create a plan and track whatever nutrients you want in addition to fats, proteins and carbs. It allows you to set a daily percentage to determine a macro-nutrient plan. You can track your weight, calories, and carbs intake. At the end of every day, the application will give advice based on what you did wrong each day.
Check out our in-depth review by clicking here. MyNetDiary is available for download for $9.99.
Calorie Counter by FatSecret for iPad
Calorie Counter is a good free application to simply find nutritional info for the food you eat and easily keep track of your meals, exercise and weight. With this application you can sync up to their website and access your info anywhere, any time across your iOS devices. Keep in mind the application will include ads.
Calorie Counter is customized for the iPad, is simple to use and has good tools to help you succeed.
- A quick pick to find calorie and nutrition info for your favorite foods, brands and restaurants.
- A manual barcode input
- A food diary to plan and keep track of what you’re eating.
- An exercise diary to record all the calories you burn.
- A diet calendar to see your calories consumed and burned.
- A weight tracker.
- A journal to record your progress.
Calorie Counter is available for download and it’s free.
