Recommend me a healthy eating app

[Dr Murdoch]

I'm trying to find an app that helps me calorie count and also suggest recipes to try. I'm trying to shift a stone in about 5 weeks (I'm 12.5 at the moment).

I'm a keen runner but I'm coming back from injury (the injury lay off is the reason for my weight gain, hence I now want to shift the excess as quick as possible).

I'm using android, but there appears to be 100's of apps, so trying to sift through them to find a good one is a ball ache!

Cheers

[x 7usc]

My fitness pal is really good, i lost 3 stone in 3 months using it, although i was going under recommended calories by quite a bit as i wanted to get it shifted!

I kickstarted it by losing a stone stupidly fast by following This

There are some good recipes on Here

[vescaegg]

I really need to get back on track monitoring myfitnesspal. It really did seem to work when I used it a while back. It was insane how much I didn't know about what I was eating in terms of calories.

[Dr Murdoch]

Had a quick look on google store, but they don't appear to have it.

I assume this is an Apple app? Is there a sister app for google?

[LordGrover]

Unless you regularly eat packet/supermarket food then MFP and their ilk are a PITA.

When I need to control/monitor intake I find it simpler to eat a small variety of whole foods which makes it much simpler to monitor, especially if you can be arsed to weigh and maintain a simple spreadsheet. I've found cooking batches and dividing as necessary is simplest - on Sunday I roast an assortment of veg e.g. sweet potato, squash, carrots, parsnips, garlic, etc. All weighed en masse and divvied up in tupperware for most of the week. Same goes for chicken breasts, turkey, salmon steaks, etc. The only things I tend to cook as required are beef steaks and greens.

[RobM77]

x 7usc said:

My fitness pal is really good, i lost 3 stone in 3 months using it, although i was going under recommended calories by quite a bit as i wanted to get it shifted!

I kickstarted it by losing a stone stupidly fast by following This

There are some good recipes on Here

I can second that. I downloaded it out of interest to see what my calorie balance was like and found it great. I know several people who have used it with great success.

There's so much rubbish bandered about and lapped up by people looking for a clever miracle cure to weight loss (typically people focus too much on tiny effects), but at the end of the day the best method is and has always been simply balancing calorie intake with calories burned. As evidence for that, my wife's a GP and whenever a patient wants to lose weight she asks them to keep a food diary and book in to see her again in two weeks to talk about diet and exercise etc - virtually nobody does, and when quizzed later it turns out that counting calories made it totally obvious why they were putting on weight, so they didn't need any further advice!

[Foliage]

Dr Murdoch said:

Had a quick look on google store, but they don't appear to have it.

I assume this is an Apple app? Is there a sister app for google?

It is on android/google, look for 'myfitnesspal' all one word

i use it, ive lost 25% of my body weight since febuary, now have a flat stomach etc.

[LordGrover]

iOS & android.

[RobM77]

Mine was Apple, yes, but I think there is an Android version as described above.

One of the best things about the app is it gives you an awareness of exercise and food that you'll have for the rest of your life, helping you to maintain a healthy weight. This is in sharp contrast to most diets and weight loss regimes, which only tell you how to lose weight and don't give you the knowledge that you'll need to maintain it.

[Dr Murdoch]

Cheers for the help

I found a plan which was 'lean in 4 weeks', and this week I have lost 7 pounds since Tuesday.

Hard to do, and need to eat some 'interesting' food, but its opened my diet up to a LOT of heathier foods.

I'm also using myfitnesspal as well, and all is good!

10k steps a day isn't easy to achieve mind!