Diabetes Food Tracker ~ Fittur 12+

There must be plenty of calorie restriction apps, and I don't know if this is better or worse than others, but this has worked for me. I'm down 16 lbs in two months, back in the "normal" range for BMI, and feeling great! Amazingly, I have very rarely been hungry, and then only a little!

Here's how it works: You enter your age, gender, height, exercise level, and current weight. Then you enter a target weight and choose a weight loss rate. The app recommends 1 lb/week and advises no more than 2. Based on these numbers, the app prepares a daily calorie budget for you. Each day you record everything you eat and the amount. The app calculates the number of calories for each item consumed and shows you how many calories you have left to "spend" that day. The app knows a huge number of foods, both generically and by brand. It remembers everything you enter, so if you consume a food on another day you have only to type the 1st 3 letters.

If you stay within your calorie budget, you lose weight. Go under it a couple of days, and you lose even faster. There's a nice tracking graph. If you do more exercise than normal one day, you can enter the activity, and the app will adjust your calorie budget for that day.

A kitchen scale is essential. A good quality digital one is very helpful. It helps if you prepare most meals at home. It also helps if you're a little OCD 😃.

All in all, a wonderful tool for those with the patience to track their caloric intake.

I do not know where to begin about how much I love this app. I find myself returning to it numerous times a day. First the avatar - I am a cartoon fanatic. So the avatar that is set up for the before and after picture is genius. The reason why people lose weight is to look better, which makes you feel better and ultimately perform better. The avatar has different shades, hair, eye color so you are able to customize it. Second the rewards are clothes - 'say what'. Of course after you've slimmed down you want to dress better. So the items as rewards is an excellent motivator. But that all is the fun part. In order to lose weight, you need to keep a 'diary' of your caloric intake. Needless to say the app has a diary and an electronic counter of the calories. It had graphs and allows you to store pics of yourself for incentives. This is the best app EVER! Thank you for creating it. If it ever goes viral - hola I would love to advertise for it.

Easy to use, and works very fast. The need to feed the app with info as the day unrolls means that you are repeatedly motivated to consider exactly what you are eating and whether you really need that 2nd slice of cake.
The nutritional breakdown of preloaded foods is a bit hit & miss - some are 100% accurate & taken from packaging, whereas some are missing full nutrient breakdown. This messes up the chart, for example, of whether you have had enough calcium that day as the total is out. However you can put in your own nutritional data as you add foods which deals with this problem.
No stones & lbs. This needs to be added in next version please.
You can track your weight and measurements. It would be good to track BMI and blood pressure as well within the same app.
Overall very good app as it works well and therefore you genuinely want to use it and it encourages you to reach your goals.