Administration APP-e New Year!
By: Melanie Martin
APP-e New Year!
Are you ready to start your health and
Every year, many of wellness program in 2021 using one us make New Year’s of these apps? The HDOT Wellness Resolutions to lose Committee is sponsoring a weight loss weight, including me. Despite working out 6 contest beginning on January 19th and will days a week, I can’t lose run for approximately 8 weeks. Individual weight the way I could and ofÞce prizes will be awarded. Please when I was younger. email melanie.martin@hawaii.gov or call Let’s face it. Age DOES 831-7912, to sign up and learn more about make a difference when attempting to lose the contest rules. holiday pounds, or perhaps the COVID 15 that got packed on during quarantine. Lose it! Frustrated at not being able to shed pounds easily, I turned to technology to see if it could give me an edge in the “battle of the bulge.” Turns out, there are tons of apps that I can download on my phone to help count calories and track exercise. The other day I downloaded Lose it! which actually puts me on a caloric budget for the day. Yesterday, I was 561 calories over budget! Must have been the pumpkin pie with whipped cream I had for dessert. Lose it! can be downloaded for free, but if you want the premium services, it will cost you $9.99 per month or $39.99 for an annual subscription. Some other apps that made the top 10 list of best apps according to healthline include MyFitnessPal, Fitbit, and Noom. Like Lose it!, MyFitnessPal calculates your calorie needs for the day, and allows you to log your daily food intake. The app can generate a few different reports, including a pie chart that gives you an overview of your total fat, carbohydrate, and
protein consumption. Similar to Lose it!, MyFitnessPal can sync with fitness tracking apps, including Fitbit, Jawbone UP, Garmin, and Strava. It will then adjust your calorie needs based on what you burned via exercise. You can download the app for free, but the cost for premium features is about the same as
Fitbit is also a great tool to use to track your exercise. The only downside is you have to buy the device for about $129 in order to track your movements via the app. Fitbit records your steps, miles walked, and your heart rate. It also allows you to challenge your friends. This could be a good thing if you like friendly competition or, if you’re like me, a bad thing. I competed with a friend a few years ago, and I found myself jumping rope at 11 p.m. just to beat her. I’ve seen many commercials advertising Noom, so I decided to look into it. The app has all of the features that Lose it! and yFitnessPal apps do, but it adds health coaching to the mix. Obviously, it is way more expensive, costing about $59 a month or $199 for an annual plan. I suppose the benefit of Noom is that it focusses on the behavioral side of eating and helps you develop a healthy relationship with food. Noom also has support groups and community chats so you can share your journey with others.
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