Drawbacks-
The app needs users to pay a $3.22/week subscription fee, which can rise to $12.69/week with additional digital coaching charges.
Fitbit
You cannot lose weight with just a maintained diet. Regular exercise and physical activity are just as important, and this wearable Fitbit device helps you track your exercise routine with its activity tracker throughout the day. Fitbit syncs all your information from the number of steps you took, your heart rate, food and water intake, nutrition information, calorie intake, weight goals, and even sleeping patterns. This information is all accessible to its users on the Fitbit app.
The app also delivers notifications on how close you are to your fitness goals and allows you to set reminders and alarms for exercising. Once you reach a specific goal, you are presented with awards to encourage you further on your weight loss journey. Fitbit’s strong community also allows you to connect with other Fitbit users and share your progress and participate in several challenges. Fitbit is similar to other devices in its league like Apple Watch, Google fit, and jawbone. Therefore, you might want to compare benefits and prices before deciding which one suits you the best.
Drawbacks-
Although free, the app contains in-app purchases and a subscription fee of $9.99/month or $79.99/year. Furthermore, to avail of features like heart rate monitoring, step counts, and exercise manager, the user needs to own a Fitbit device, which can get quite pricey.
Fooducate
We all have been near a food aisle in a grocery store, confused while choosing the right product for our weight loss goals, navigating our way through its nutritional information for what seems like forever. The app features a nutrition scanner that can scan the barcode for over 250,000 different food items and provide you with detailed information on its nutritional value and ingredients while also cautioning you about all the unhealthy components of the product, which people generally overlook. It then also suggests healthy alternatives for the product you wanted. The app includes tools to track your food and exercise routine. It is also a genuinely reliable app as it tends to keep your allergies in mind while suggesting products.
Drawbacks-
While this app is free for the most part, certain features like low carb diets, allergy tracking, etc., can only be unlocked for a fee starting from $0.99, which can scale as high as $89.99. Other fitness apps that work equally well include apps like ‘Lose it,’ ‘FatSecret,’ ‘Oh She Glows, ‘Sparkpeople’ among many others with several meal plans, personal trainers, exercise routines, and extensive food database, and activity trackers.
Conclusion
There are plenty of apps available today to bring you closer to your weight loss goals and a healthy lifestyle. These health apps monitor everything you do and consume in a day and make you aware of how your choices and habits impact your health and how minor lifestyle changes can be life-changing for many individuals. They also keep you motivated with community support, a points system, progress charts, and periodical stats on how close you are to your goals.
While these are a few benefits of using a fitness app, some people might either feel burdened with a task or find the whole process simply overwhelming, time-consuming, and rough for their mental health, and that it is entirely okay. These apps can sometimes feel like a lot if you want to sail on a smooth boat forward and take one step at a time with the choices you make. You also don’t need to stand by society’s expectations, risk your mental health and overdo it. Being healthy is a choice you make, and you decide how to implement those in your life. But if you are serious about shedding some pounds or keeping yourself accountable to living a healthy lifestyle, you should definitely check out these apps and find the one that works the best for you.
