

The app can also highlight the different minerals and vitamins you can get from certain foods and whether or not you are consuming a bit too much salt (important if you have high blood pressure or any cardiac disease in your family history). This is because you will generally only see progress through all of the effort you’re putting in if you consume fewer calories than you’re burning with your health and fitness programme.

One of the better things that it does is analyse and provide you with a breakdown of each individual portion of food that you input into it: highlighting how much fat, protein and carbohydrates are in them and then how many calories you’ve consumed.īeing in a calorie deficit (meaning you’re eating a lower number of them than you’re burning) is important if your goal is weight loss. It helps you by tracking what your macro-nutrient intake (carbs, fats, proteins and vitamins and minerals) from the food that you eat. If you’ve been looking for some of the latest tech to help you with your fitness journey then you’ve probably come across MyFitnessPal.
