If you are looking to find a way to lose weight and stay in shape, along with your strong will and determination, you need a few apps to help you follow your goals. We’ve put together a list of free Android and iPhone apps to help you lose weight and stay in great shape. These apps include tips on maintaining a healthy lifestyle to fitness regimes that will keep you in good shape. Make the best use of them and let us know if you have a favorite app.
Free Android and iPhone Apps to Help You Lose Weight
Calorie Counter and Diet Tracker
Calorie Count and Diet Tracker requires you to create an account with MyFitnessPal after which you can set up your personal profile. You can set realistic goals for yourself, choose how much weight you want to lose per week, set your exercise goals, and include your activity level.
Calorie Count and Diet Tracker contains a large database of food items and exercises to choose from, which helps to balance the nutritional intake along with calories burned. It also supports an online community and includes social features such as forums, groups, journals, and Facebook Connect integration.
Download Calorie Counter and Diet Tracker for iOS
Download Calorie Counter and Diet Tracker for Android
Diet Point - Weight Loss
Once you set up your profile, Diet Point will display unique diet plans in different categories e.g. Vegetarian, Low Carb, Detox, Fad, Blood Type and Healthy, indicating how much weight you can lose based on your physical characteristics. The app also has an online support community where you can get motivational statements. You can also set alarms to alert you of upcoming meals.
Download Diet Point - Weight Loss for iOS
Download Diet Point - Weight Loss for Android
Noom Coach Weight Loss
Noom Coach Weight Loss is a powerful app that helps you achieve your weight loss goals by combining exercise tracking, food logging and motivation into one package. You can create a personal weight loss plan and then track your progress, log meals, get exercise reminders, and track all your activities -- from walking to yoga! It works in combination with Calorific and Cardio Trainer and is an app you will surely enjoy tracking your weight loss.
Download Noom Coach for Android
Noom CardioTrainer
CardioTranier lets you keep track of your daily exercise activity. You can choose the workout type you want, e.g walking, biking, treadmill walk, running, set a timer, integrate music to help your workout and an active GPS device will track the distance you’ve covered.
The calories you burned will automatically be calculated by the app and you can save the record for future references or share them with the Facebook community and Google contacts. You can even compete against the times you recorded in previous workouts. All-in-all a good workout scheduling app.
Lose It
This is a popular health and fitness app that lets you set goals and a daily calorie limit. Keep track of your food and exercise and lose all that extra weight by staying within your calorie limits.
Daily Ab Workout
Want to strengthen and tone your abs in just 5 minutes a day? Daily Ab Workout lets you select a 5 to 10 minute daily ab routine. The app displays videos of the ten best ab-sculpting exercises. These exercises are demonstrated by a certified personal trainer and targets all major abdominal muscles. The app also has a video and a timer that lets you easily follow along and understand each exercise.
Download Daily Ab Workout for iOS
Download Daily Ab Workout for Android
JEFIT
The app has been created based on the advice of pro body builders and fitness enthusiasts and has a ton of features that lets you track your workouts, routines, body statistics, and progress.
iMapMyRUN
iMapMyRUN lets you track the route, time, distance, speed, pace and calories in real-time using GPS. You need to setup an account in MapMyRun.com and then sync your results with www.mapmyrun.com. It also provides Facebook and Twitter integration and provides voice feedback to guide you as you go through the various exercise routines.
Download iMapMyRun for Android
Instant Heart Rate
This app turns your phone into a heart rate monitor. You can use this app to optimize your exercise and to track your progress. The app uses your smartphone’s camera to detect pulse on your fingertip. To check your heart rate, place the tip of your index finger on the phone’s camera and in a couple of seconds your heart rate will be shown. Instant Heart Rate will beep with your pulse and a real-time chart will show your every heart beat.
Download Instant Heart Rate for iOS
Download Instant Heart Rate for Android
NutritionTips
NutritionTips is a good app that lets you learn about the small details that can save you a headache if your food goes bad, or if you are unsure of how to best prepare a particular food item (or how to store it for that matter). It also contains fun facts that help you learn about the nutrition in various foods. This can be a fun way to learn a lot of information about the foods you already consume, and the foods you should consume.
Download NutritionTips for iOS
Enjoy the journey to becoming healthy and fit! Once you’re on the track geared with these apps, make sure you do your research on exercise and nutrition. Even if bodybuilding is not your thing, grass fed whey could help supplement your nutrition. And setting fitness goals, and taking the right vitamins, fruits and veggies can also help – remember, you’re doing all this to stay healthy!
Great list of apps adeline, i am gortunate ecough that i need none of these to loose weight as i am one of those slim types yet i am sure it would help those who are suffering from over weightage.