Originally posted a MyBlogalicous.
Every January, many of us vow to live a healthy lifestyle and by February, we are back to our old habits. Just saying we will change isn’t good enough. We need to have a plan with goals and a way to track whether we are keeping up with the plan.
The best tool for tracking is anything that you will stick with. I find it easiest to use online tools that offer access from my iPhone. The following three tools are all free online tracking tools.
SparkPeople
SparkPeople is the most comprehensive healthy lifestyle resource. SparkPeople offers information about food, diet, exercise, emotions, injuries and much more. They offer exercise videos, food & water tracking, SparkRecipes, menu planning, incentives, goal planning & tracking, reports and more. SparkPeople is broken down into 3 categories, myTools, myCommunity and myContent. Not only do they have the tools to track calories, but they walk you through the process of setting up a plan and goal. SparkPeople is available for both the iPhone, iPad & Android phones. This is the tool that I have been using for 5 years. If you are on SparkPeople, look me up, I am Scrappinmichele.
FitDay
FitDay is a more stripped down healthy lifestyle tracker, no frills way of tracking your food, weight, water and more. FitDay also offers software (PC only) that you can purchase and download that does everything offline and you can download your online information to the software. There is also an iPhone version of FitDay.
Calorie Count
Calorie Count is part of the About.com family. Calorie Count offers tools for tracking food, water, exercise, BMI, weight loss and more. Offers a mobile app for iPhone, Blackberry and a mobile website for all other mobile devices. You can find a lot of articles about a healthy lifestyle and since it is part of the About.com, there are a lot of articles available with a lot of “experts” to answer questions and a community of fellow calorie counters.
All 3 of these will let you track your new healthy lifestyle. Check each of them out and see which one appeals to you more. Be sure that it is a system that you can keep up with daily without a lot of extra work. That is most likely to be a system that will work for your healthy lifestyle.
Let’s Talk! How do you track your healthy lifestyle habits? Or don’t you?
Christina Z
February 21, 2011
Thanks for posting these links I am starting a food journal myself trying to watch what I am eating and see w hat my downfalls are. I am going to go to these sites and incorporate them into helping me to find out how many calories and keep track of where I am with it all.
Gabriele
February 21, 2011
I signed up with SparkPeople. Thank you for posting these links! When I signed up, I gave you as the referral. Apparently, that made you my automatic "friend". Feel free to unfriend me. I won't be offended!
Christina Z
February 21, 2011
Thanks for posting these links I am starting a food journal myself trying to watch what I am eating and see w hat my downfalls are. I am going to go to these sites and incorporate them into helping me to find out how many calories and keep track of where I am with it all.
Gabriele
February 21, 2011
I signed up with SparkPeople. Thank you for posting these links! When I signed up, I gave you as the referral. Apparently, that made you my automatic “friend”. Feel free to unfriend me. I won’t be offended!
Larry Lourcey
November 14, 2011
I love using FitDay. When you start actually tracking your intake, you realize just how much you are eating. No wonder my All Carb diet isn’t working!
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