Smart Phone Weight Loss Programs

[steven johnson]

Ten years ago I programmed a similar dieting program for my portable organizer and found it worked so I am betting that these products function similarly.

Free and nearly free cellphone applications for dieters and aspiring hard bodies are proliferating in the various app stores for iPhones, Android handsets, BlackBerrys and others. In some cases it feels like the Internet, circa 1999, in that companies are giving away products that seem fairly valuable.

I tested a handful of the most popular applications, including Lose It! (free, for the iPhone), Calorie Counter (free, on Android and BlackBerry) and Calorie Tracker by Livestrong ($3 on iPhone, BlackBerry and Android).

Lose It!, from FitNow, is the top choice of calorie counters, with 3.5 million downloads in the 14 months since it became available. But more noteworthy is that 190,000 people have bothered to rate the app, usually with high marks, which suggests that the software has some staying power.

Calorie Tracker is a more comprehensive alternative to Lose It!, but that blessing can also be a curse. The program, part of Lance Armstrong’s Livestrong (livestrong.com) stable of brands, has millions of food items in its database, and the service’s two million members add information on new foods daily.

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[dkf]

1. I tried lose it but there are too many Hawaii foods thaf arent on the list

[regnaD kciN]

2. I don't know...

I don't think my smartphone needs to lose weight. :rofl: